{"product_id":"9781893271272","title":"San Antonio's Historic Plazas, Parks, and River Walk: In Vintage Postcard Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom plazas placed in Spanish times to the River Walk, one of the world's most renowned linear parks, San Antonio enjoys a broad variety of historic public spaces. Here they are uniquely portrayed in more than 165 vintage postcard images, with memorable scenes ranging from candy vendors on Military Plaza to the interior of Alamo Plaza's Plaza Bar to the weekly snake fry in Brackenridge Park's Reptile Gardens. As the largest city in Texas from 1890 to 1930—the height of postcards' greatest popularity—San Antonio was a target market for postcard sales. As a result, this transitional time in the city's history is particularly well documented. All of the city's major historic public spaces are portrayed in this book—Alamo Plaza, Military Plaza, Main Plaza, Travis Park, Brackenridge Park and its zoo, San Pedro Park and the San Antonio River Walk. A number of lesser plazas and parks are represented as well. Writes Trinity University professor Char Miller in the foreword: \"These postcards wonderfully evoke San Antonio before the needs of the car—and its drivers—determined development patterns. They remind us how important these spaces were in shaping how people met in public and in framing visitors' experiences of this bustling metropolis. . . . That this sort of open landscape left a memorable impression was precisely what 18th century Spanish urban planners had in mind when they designed San Antonio.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maverick Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039333728496,"sku":"9781893271272","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781893271272_p0.jpg?v=1763609495","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781893271272","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}