The first World’s Fair in the southern United States turned San Antonio into a modern city that people would want to visit and call home.
and lead researcher on a “Viva HemisFair” exhibit that opens Friday, said San Antonio, with an economy centered on military bases, had suffered stagnation since World War II.
Perhaps the fair’s largest controversy was destruction of 250 houses, 140 industrial and commercial buildings and a church and synagogue in an old Polish-German neighborhood that also included Mexican-American and African-American residents among 1,600 people displaced. In his book, “Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage,” Lewis F. Fisher wrote that “the epidemic urban renewal virus was laying low entire regions of downtowns nationwide.
By 1963, most public places in San Antonio were fully integrated, editor Bruce A. Glasrud wrote in his 2011 book, “African Americans in South Texas History.” In 1965, shortly after Baptist pastor S.H. James was elected the city’s first black City Council member, the council passed an ordinance integrating all public accommodations, Glasrud wrote.
“LBJ adored John Connally, just as a personal friend. He loved John,” McCombs told the San Antonio Express-News last week. “So every time we’d fall in a ditch, Connally would come get us out. And if he couldn’t, he’d get Lyndon.” “The contractors did an absolutely incredible job of finishing it out in three months — the whole interior, getting the elevators in, getting everything done,” Powell recalled.The fair, with the theme, “Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas” began during a week of national unrest. Johnson shocked many by announcing six days before the fair opened that he would not seek re-election. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated two days before opening day.
Crowds surround Confluence Theater, one of two U.S. pavilions at HemisFair ’68 in downtown San Antonio.The festival began each day with the hoisting of flags and performances by the fair’s own marching band. Along with rides, modern high-tech exhibits, music and dance performances and water ski acrobatic shows at Lake HemisFair, highlights included the “dome show” at the Texas Pavilion — today’s ITC — showcasing the state’s diversity.
He and his wife, Estella, married on June 1, 1968, then had long careers, raised two children and now live in Castroville. But they still return to the river and HemisFair tower when hosting visitors. Fisher’s book also cites reviews by Ada Louise Huxtable of the New York Times writing that the “special local flavor” that made HemisFair distinctive “would have been proportionately better” if “more of these characteristic and historic buildings had been saved.”
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