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Market Square is the site of Cinco de Mayo in central San Antonio and many other fiestas throughout the year. [2] The "El Mercado" building was built as a Works Progress Administration project during 1938-1939 after the existing municipal market house (known as the Giles building) was torn down. The new building was originally named the ...
La Villita Historic Arts Village is an art community in downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States.There are art galleries, stores selling souvenirs, gifts, custom jewelry, pottery, and imported Mexican folk art, as well as several restaurants in the district.
Pages in category "Mexican-American culture in San Antonio" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
San Antonio's Fiesta De Los Reyes ended an hour early Sunday after a Market Square shooting left two dead and four injured.
Taco Cabana was founded by Felix Stehling in September 1978, with its first restaurant at the corner of San Pedro and Hildebrand Avenue in Midtown San Antonio. [2] Stehling purchased a vacant Dairy Queen because the family needed additional parking space for their bar across the street, the Crystal Pistol. Stehling decided to open a taco stand ...
The sculpture stands at nearly 65 ft (20 m), and weighs more than 45 tons (40,800 kg). [2] The medium is enameled iron. It is located in the middle of a traffic rotary (the intersection of Losoya, Commerce, Market, and Alamo Streets) in Downtown San Antonio, an area known to international tourists as the location for the San Antonio River Walk (or Paseo del Rio), and the Alamo.
La Michoacana Meat Market is a Hispanic-themed chain of Hispanic specialty stores and grocery stores in the United States, headquartered in Spring Branch, [1] Houston, Texas. [2] Rafael Ortega heads the chain, which has about 135 stores. [3] The stores are located in an area stretching from the Rio Grande Valley to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
A 1954 photograph of Mexican workers awaiting deportation during "Operation Wetback." (Los Angeles Times / UCLA Archives) As the campaign continued, officers swept north into cities.