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6 unusual facts about San Antonio River Walk


Allan Vache

Vache played with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band of San Antonio, Texas, for 17 years, and was a regular on the Riverwalk - Live from the Landing radio show on Public Radio International, which featured the Cullum band.

Donald Lipski

Some of his most recognizable works include The Yearling, outside the Denver Public Library (originally exhibited by The Public Art Fund at Doris Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, 1997), Sirshasana, hanging in the Grand Central Market, Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and F.I.S.H. at the San Antonio River Walk, in Texas.

Nelson Wolff

In Transforming San Antonio (Trinity University Press) Wolff gives an insider's view on signature economic-development projects with which he was involved: the AT&T Center, a Toyota factory, the PGA Village, and the San Antonio River Walk extension.

San Antonio River Walk

Work began on the Olmos Dam and bypass channel in 1926; however, the San Antonio Conservation Society successfully protested the paved sewer option.

That was also the year the Hilton Palacio del Rio was built, the first of many downtown hotels that leverage their slice of urban "riverfront."

The San Antonio Spurs had their four NBA Championship victory parades/cruises along the river.



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