“Everything up and down the street was pretty much Black-owned businesses. This was our San Antonio.”
– When Suzanne Smith’s father and uncle first came to San Antonio from Bay City in the 1940′s, she said, “Things were rolling and popping, and this was the place to be.”, just east of Interstate 37 and San Antonio’s tourist mecca downtown.
Despite the barriers of segregation back then, Suzanne Smith said her father, Pinkie Smith, was determined to go into business for himself and be successful., a segregated movie theater at the time. He went on to open the Deluxe Hotel there, and her uncle had a drug store at the corner of the building.“Everybody came to the Deluxe, especially because of the Cameo,” she said.
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