.:. Da Blog .:.

What a fine day yesterday WUZ

My mom protested her Bexar County Tax Appraisal today, and I went in as color guard. She got some bucks off, but not enough by my standard. The place is rigged. Taxes suck.

Did a run to the UPS store to drop of an eBay package, then to Ace Hardware, to pick up some weed-whacker twine, then to HEB for pet food, and finally to Dairy Queen, to pick up dinner. Yah-hoo.

Carl W. came by and spent a few hours with us, talking about web and such. Then Joe and I did a ton of research for the upcomming SA Calendar by the Esparanza Society. Texas is a unique place, and I was born here.

• Day San Antonio River "discovered", Feast Day of San Antonio de Padua, June 13th 1691
  
• Day 55 Canary Islanders arrive to establish a civilian settlement, San Fernando de Bexar, March 7, 1731
  
• Day Texas Declaration of Independence adopted, March 2, 1836
  
• Day Battle of Alamo ends, March 6, 1836
  
• Day 300 Texans "executed" by Santa Anna at Goliad, March 17, 1836
  
• Day Mexican government passes law stopping illegal immigration to Texas, April 6, 1836
  
• Day Santa Anna surrenders at San Jacinto, April 21, 1836
  
• Day of First Battle of Flowers Parade, April 24, 1891
  
• Day San Antonio Independent School District was Formed, May 2, 1899
  
• Day Spindletop gushes, January 10, 1901
  
• Day San Antonio Conservation Society Formed, March 22, 1924
  
• Day Cavaliers founded Neocolonial Totalitarian Patronization Society, ca. 1926
  
• Day Texan Admiral Chester Nimitz accepts Japanese surrender in WWII, December 2, 1945
  
• Day Jefferson High School, nations first $1,000,000 high school, opened, ca. 1945
  
• Day Concrete Mafia accepted the surrender of the citizens of San Antonio, ca early 1960's
  
• Day JFK performs last official act as President by dedicating four buildings at Brooks AFB, November 21, 1963
  
• Day Jefferson Airplane was accosted at SA International airport and told "not get off their plane around here", ca. 1967-68
  
• Day demolition of Jewish, Italian, and French historic neighborhoods began to make way for Hemisphere '68
  
• Day Dr. Urrutia's house was torn down on Broadway, ca. 1972-76
  
• Day Mic Jagger was arrested for pulling out his willie at the start of show, ca Spring 76
  
• Day Legs Diamond first played Lady at the Sunken Gardens, ca. Spring 1976
  
• Day Playland Park Closed, ca. late 1970's
  
• Day Ira Adaburry crapped a perfectly good Battle of Flowers Parade and SAPD took it out on his Winnebago, ca. Spring 1978
  
• Day San Antonio Gardens opened, May 3, 1980
  Night Bernardo Eureste, city councilman, got busted en flagrante delicto in Brackenridge Park ca. 1980's
  
• Day Hertzburg Museum closed, ca. late 1980's
  
• Day Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation opened at SAMA, May 29, 1993
  
• Day Marshall Herff Applewhite took his Heaven's Gate followers on their journey to Comet Kahutec, March 26, 1997
  
• Day Ozzy donated $10,000 to DRT and apologized for pissing on Alamo, culminating in an official amnesty of his persona nongrada status, ca. late 1990's
  
• Day Truckers General Store closed, ca late 1990's
  
• Day Conductor of SA Symphony, on his way to lunch with a judge, was busted for bringing cannabis and a pipe into the Bexar County Courthouse, ca. late 1990's
  
• Day known pistol pack'n, LULAC aficionado and ardent Police critic, Ruben Sandoval, was found "suicided" by rifle followed by the shortest SAPD investigation in history, ca late 1990's
  
• Day Nelson Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art opened, ca late 1990's
  
• Day Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge opened at SAMA, ca. Fall 2001
  
• Night Bernardo Diaz, Director of Arts and Cultural Affairs, was tossed out of Chicano Visions opening festivities for disruptive public drunkenness, see above (no shit, ask Flaco)
  
• Day C. A. Stubbs finally lost his 40 year battle against fluoridation, ca. 2002
  
• Day SAWS connected the sewer line to the drinking water line of the residents of the River Road District, ca 2003
  
• Birthday Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano De Zavalla, Texas Patriot, October 3, 1789
  
• Birthday Mrs. De Zavalla, savior of the Alamo
  
• Birthday Dr. Urrutia, legendary physician, community leader and brujo
  
• Birthday Allan Dale, legendary WOAI radio talk show host
  
• Birthday Joe Anthony, legendary KISS DJ
  
• Birthday O'neil Ford, architect, December 3, 1905
  
• Birthday Henry B. Gonzalez, Congressman, May 3, 1916
  
• Birthday, Maury Maverick, Congressman, October 23, 1895
  
• Birthday Mary Rowena Maverick Green, savior of SA historic Missions, February 10, 1874
  
• Birthday Heloise Reese, Hints From Heloise, May14, 1919
  
• Birthday Rev. Alexander Carver Sutton, Community Leader and names sake of Carver Center, February 6, 1919
  
• Birthday George "the Ice Man: Gervin, SA Spur and local personality
  
• Birthday David "the Admiral" Robinson, SA Spur and local philanthropist
  
• Birthday Augie Meyers, Tejano/Country musician
  
• Birthday of Willie Nelson, Texas musician and National treasure
  
• Birthday, Bob Keesham, Captain Kangaroo and SA native
  
• Day Pompeo Coppinni, renound cenotaph sculptor died, September 26, 1957
  
• Day Warren Hunter, renound local watercolorist drowned in flood on Broadway, ca. late 1990's
  

Enuf is enuf. Maybe we should make our own calendar...

posted by Lori @ 5:13 AM