TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENOES. 277 



herein in the original photograph 

 of same, showing San Antonio in 

 those olden times true to nature as 

 a mere small but very attractive 

 vilage, with the eternal blun 

 Texas skies hovering over the 

 quaint old "San Antonio de 

 Bexar." Some of the then — and 

 now yet, historic and prominent 

 sceneries around our present me- 

 tropolis were included, separately 

 in the Lungkwitz drawings — such 



spanning the th'fen sparkling and 

 most romantic San Antonio river 

 — with its huge and century old 

 cypress, pecan, elm, haekberry 

 and other typical forest trees and 

 typical bath houses along the resi- 

 dential districts of the river banks. 

 Some twenty-five years later, 

 after Lungkwitz had prepared the 

 historical landscape, San Antonio 

 already had made wonderful ad- 

 vancement in the u'pbuilding of 



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San Antonio Fifty Years Ago 

 (From an Old Drawing From Nature by H. Lungkwitz) 



as the Military and Main Plaza 

 with its quaint Mexican dishes and 

 market products and surrounding 

 adobe houses ; the old original 

 Alamo building; San Pedro 

 springs and Park; the four Mis- 

 sions, and the new bridge across 

 Houston street. In those days 

 San Antonio had but about three 

 or four principal bridges over- 



the old town; and the City Hall 

 and other prominent buildings and 

 city parks, etc., came in front, and 

 one of the original views herein 

 shows the eastern town districts 

 — the photo being taken from the 

 tower ofthe City Hall many years 

 ago, showing the rear parts of the 

 ancient San Fernando church on 

 Main Plaza; part of Main Plaza 



