Using a new web tool powered by machine learning, we added color to vintage San Antonio photos — from President Taft to HemisFair ’68.
A view down Houston Street in 1930. The Texas Theater and the Gunter Hotel can be seen on the left and the Majestic Theatre is on the right.But because cameras capable of capturing this color didn't go mainstream until the 1970s, much of the city's early history has been locked up in black-and-white photography for decades.
In this image from the 1920s, readers of “Downtown San Antonio” can look over the shoulder of this unknown man at Alamo Plaza. A San Antonio Police Department captain measures the swimsuit of a young woman, believed to be Miss San Antonio 1927 Florence Zoeller at San Pedro Park. Cast members of the 1960 film “The Alamo,” including John Wayne, Linda Cristal, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone and Pat Wayne, pay tribute to the fallen defenders of the Alamo during a ceremony on Alamo Plaza on Oct. 24, 1960, the morning of the world premiere of the film.
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