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Originally Posted by Danny
Thanks for your tour along San Antonio, Kevin!
You took a lot of nice pictures for only 90 minutes there, so you did a long walk. Interesting paintings and different views of the downtown. It looks it was very warm during your visit, wasn´t it?
Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain.
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It actually wasn't too hot. And I rode my bicycle which made it even more easy. I think it was in the low or mid 80s. The day after I took these we went back to San Antonio for the 2nd day of the dog show, and it poured down rain. You couldn't see downtown anymore from where we were.
The artwork was a bunch of paintings hanging on the construction fence at the Tobin Center. That's the old theatre that photolith mentioned. The building is getting a total renovation and expansion. I have to be honest, though, I'm not a fan that they did this. The Municipal Auditorium was one of the best looking buildings in San Antonio. It'll be greatly changed on the Riverwalk side. I'm sure it'll be a boost to that area of downtown, but I always liked the old dome. I think it will have better interaction with the Riverwalk at least.
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Originally Posted by photoLith
I'm so glad they are restoring and building upon that old theater. That side of downtown is pretty barren, hopefully that will liven it up a bunch.
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Here are the renderings showing what it'll look like:
https://tobincenter.org/Online/defau...ity::linkName=
http://lmnts.lmnarchitects.com/fabrication/tcpa-intro/
http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/be...ingarts/42366/
These show the construction process. It is a neat project.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...#photo-3664897
This is what it used to look like.
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Originally Posted by marcus
San Antonio looks real neat! I want to get there someday! Is the painting of the singer near the top of Selena?
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Do you mean the 2nd painting photo? I think you may be right. I hadn't noticed, but that probably is supposed to be Selena.