HemisFair San Antonio - Part 2

[@carloscortez6271]

I was 15 yrs old in 1968. We could see the Tower being built from our house. On the west side.

[@Lipurl73]

I didn’t realize so much went on before Hemisfair was built; a lot of preparation beforehand and many changes have to happen--both good and bad.

[@Randsterone1]

My family and I came down here for Hemesfair and I remember the Indians on the top of that great big tower swinging starting from the center and gaining speed until the centrifugal force shot them all the way out making them ride circling around in a big circle. It was like yesterday. I can't believe it was that long ago. It was a huge fair. So many memories.

[@1leadvocal]

I had family from S.A., but wasn't living there at the time. We made it down for Hemisfair. And to be honest, only the Indian Fliers have survived in my memory from the fair. I still have loads of other memories from other years of being in San Antonio, though.

[@efronefroninc.119]

What a great story. Out with the old in with the new. Very transformative for our city.

[@NtroPtoXtroP]

I was a 9-year-old boy growing up in San Antonio in 1968 when Hemisfair opened. From my front yard, using a telescope, I used to watch the tower being built. I still have a Hemisfair '68 bumper sticker. But this story pissed me off to no end. LBJ and John Connelly both were two of the biggest assholes to ever come down the pike. This story makes me sick.

[@davidking8361]

They may have been ass-----, but they were OUR ass-----!

[@rickhernnandez6045]

NtroPtoXtroP

[@steelstreet3765]

NtroPtoXtroP i am 38 and love the history of san antonio. I want to learn anything from the 60s.

[@davidstaley3737]

we were the same age, I lived at Randolph AFB. Do you remember the puppet show with Argyle S. N. Ake?? We would run back to their show from wherever we were at the fair!! Good times. did not know this seedy side of it, either....

[@dannycrockett9878]

I was seven years old that year of 68 when we piled in the family wagon, every bit the Griswalds, and headed from Chicago for our 3 week vacation that would take us to visit relatives in Cali and TX. We spent two great days at the HemisFair and I have the old Super 8 films my dad took that are now on disc. I have tried very hard to find anything on the exhibit that was something like "Cars Of The Future," and they had 3 or 4 prototypes of these Jetson looking vehicles. One was, I remember well, the station wagon of the future and had a shopping cart that popped up out of the back. Please let me know if you-all know of a site with footage or pics.

[@MIKECNW]

I wonder if those who felt bad about making those folks leave their home were able to enjoy Hemisfair?

[@sixtogallardojr560]

So sad

[@johnstauffer1032]

It's sad to realize people were forced out of their homes and businesses 😪

[@user-mx1vp4jf3n]

After they turn down what was part of my life my child hood memories my home with my family we got torn apart as well it was like a wake up call that things can't always stay the same

[@steelstreet3765]

I want to know all these locations

[@user-mx1vp4jf3n]

It shouldn't have never changed

[@TerryReedMiss]

Our old OLD neighborhood in Houston is now loooonggg gone, including my grandparents little grocery store. But they moved the house! I can understand the feelings of Mr. Swartz's uncle and aunt. But I can also understand the need for the Fair and expansion. I hope the people were paid well; the SA Conservation Society wanted to save 129 homes but only 24 were actually saved. Anyone remember the Pavilion of Women .. Lady Bird had lots to do with THAT! It's now the Institute of Texas Cultures. That fair was just totally fun -- and educational, too! But I read this at Wikipedia: " HemisFair '68 attracted 6.3 million visitors and brought international attention to San Antonio and Texas, attendance never matched predictions, and the fair lost $7.5 million." It may have "lost" money, but it sure cemented many strong business relationships between the Americas which still bring in billions to this day!

[@robert2628]

I never realized that so many good people were displaced in order to build The Hemisfaire.

[@leticiaolivo6259]

Fiesta was better in old days, but it's sad how they took people' out of their house for hemsi fair

[@sixtogallardojr560]

Why would they do this crappy as government

[@music_by_carlos]

DO A HEMISFAIR PT 2 TODAY

[@videographer1KIK]

I WAS THERE * THANKS MOM AN DAD * REMEMBER THE MONORAIL

[@johnstauffer1032]

My family was there when the car came of the monorail