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BY JUAN LOYA AND
VERONICA SERRANO
The Battalion
Home to at least eight colleges mid uni
versities, and numerous celebrations— in
cluding The Battle of Flowers mid Diez y
Seis de Septeinbre — San Antonio is a city
that plays host to many parties.
Beyond Fiesta Texas, the missions and
the Rivervvalk, San Antonio offers visitors
and residents more than just the mn-of-the-
mill tourist attractions.
Though most big-name bands perfonn
at the Alamodome, many small venues
throughout San Antonio off er entertainment
from local bands, as well as touring alterna
tive and indie bands. Over the last few years,
the White Rabbit on St. Mary s Street (which
is also home to several other establishments
that cater to the college crowd) has become
one of the main venues for these bands,
drawing bands like'Cake, Voo Doo Glow
Skulls and Lords of Acid to its stage. The
Laboratory Brewing Co., located on Jones
[Maltzberger Road, also offers live music
from local bands and touring acts such as lan
Moore and Vallejo.
Visitors looking for live jazz should
check out The Landing located right on the
river. Frank Chance, a junior computer sci
ence major, said he enjoys the music The
Landing club offers.
“On the weekends, a band called the Jim
Cullum Jazz Band plays, and they’re really
good,” Chance said.
San Antonio offers a greater variety of
restaurants than those on the Riverwalk,
such as Planet Hollywood and
The Hard Rock Cafe. The Pig
Stand, which has the distinction
of being the first drive-in restau
rant in the United States, still
serves customers at three loca
tions in San Antonio. The
restaurants no longer offer drive-in service,
but they still offer food that is good enough
to have earned the eatery a cameo in the film
The Evening Star.
For food served in a festive setting, the
Magic Time Machine provides an eclectic
atmosphere for customers.
“The servers dress up like fictional char
acters from movies and TV shows and what
ever else,” Katie Cooper, a senior geo
physics major said.
Thrillseekers will also find that San An
tonio has just what they are looking for be-
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cause many sites of the historic city are re
puted to be haunted.
Of these sites, perhaps the most infa
mous are the train tracks on Shane Road, lo
cated on the south side of San Antonio. Ac
cording to local legend, several students
were killed when their school bus stalled on
the tracks and collided with a train, and the
streets surrounding the accident site were
named for the victims.
Since the accident, the
ghosts of the children have
supposedly' haunted the tracks
and pushed stalled cars off the
tracks to safety. Traditionally,
visitors to the site put their
cars in neutral about 50 yards away from the
tracks and the spirits push their cars across
the tracks to safety; some also test the theo
ry further by placing flour or powder on the
backs of their vehicles to see if hand prints
from the children appear.
While accounts of when the accident oc
curred vary from the 1930s to the 1940s, and
others have questioned if the accident oc
curred at all, die curious have not been de
terred from visiting the tracks.
San Antonio’s main attraction has al
ways been the Alamo, and while most visi
tors go for the historic value of the monu
ment, there are eerie aspects to the old Span
ish mission as well. Ghosts of the many sol
diers who perished during the battle of the
Alamo have been sighted on several occa
sions. But the other-worldly visitations are
not limited to people who were actually at
the historic battle. Sightings of deceased ac
tor John Wayne, star of the film The Alamo, \
have also been reported in the area, accord-1
ing to die book, Spirits of San Antonio &
South Texas, which refers to a San Antonio
Express-News article from Jan. 27,1991, that
trumpeted the headline, “John Wayne’s <
Ghost Remembers the Alamo.”
The book also cites a passage from the
Wayme biography written by his w idow, Pi
lar, who said, “... if his spirit visits the Alamo,!
it is no doubt just to ‘visit’ with the brave |
men who defended [his] ideals.”
And there are still other haunted loca
tions. Spirits of San Antonio alone lists more
than a dozen, and the Express-News Web
site lists more, and these are just a few re
sources one can use to find these locales.
No matter what one may be searching ;
for, be it a parade, a concert or even a su
pernatural experience, one has to look no
further than San Antonio.
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