Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Alamo City



San Antonio is often known as the Alamo City, due to our most famous landmark, the Alamo. Just north of downtown is the Alamo Quarry Market, site of the old Alamo Cement Plant. The shopping center kept some of the original landmarks, including these old smokestacks. In the photo on the website, you can see how tall they really are! In a pretty flat city, you can see these from pretty far away sometimes.

7 comments:

  1. How tall is this smokestacks? Nice shot by the way!

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  2. on first sight, i thought they're industrial chimpney..wonderful landmark!

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  3. Looks like they are 200 feet tall (61 meters).

    If you click on the link in the post, you can see them in relation to cars.

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  4. Why don't we see these in movies? Oh wait... those scenes are usually the past, not the present...oops.

    Hope Shorty had a great with you girls.

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  5. edwin: Oh definitely! Hanging with the Girls = Great Time!!!

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  6. Fort Alamo. Oh ! Was there not a battle there and a film ?

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  7. Nice stacks -looks very greekish

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