Do you have strong feelings about the Alamo?
When you"remember the Alamo.
The Alamo area code is 925.
Place looks like the Alamo.
I've gotta get back to the Alamo.
This conflict became known as the Second Battle of the Alamo.
The Alamo. I appreciate the sentiment, but Jiya's been right before.
Artifacts from the 1800s and an Alamo diorama are displayed near the theater gift shop.
The Alamo is remembered for many things, including
the famous battle cry reminding Texans they should remember it.
A few blocks from the city center
is a bohemian enclave built up along South Alamo Street called Southtown.
The Castle of Alamo is luxury at its finest
and built with all the comforts for a modern-day king or queen.
The Alamo Drafthouse is a local institution with multiple locations,
where you can watch a movie, drink beer, and order food.
The fifth mission, and the best known, is the Alamo which stands right downtown, a few steps away from the River Walk.
March 6- Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo ends; 182 Texan settler soldiers
die in a struggle with approximately 5,000 Mexican soldiers.
North and west of Alamo Square, is the Fillmore,
once home to some of the city's most notorious housing projects and still economically deprived.
Com, which focuses on family events and activities, food, and travel,
with an emphasis on all of the free fun families can have in the Alamo City.
With its famous façade, the Alamo is a sacred place honoring those who died
here in 1836 during a bloody siege in Texas's fight for independence from Mexico.
(That 70mm run, meanwhile, became just a few select engagements,
partly because one chain, Alamo Drafthouse, reportedly pulled out after failing to come to terms with the company.).
James Bowie is a man today known primarily for two things-
his participation in the Battle of the Alamo and a large knife design that bears his name.
What most people probably do not know is the legend of a
massive treasure of gold and silver said to be buried somewhere on the grounds of the Alamo.
Standing in the shadow of the Alamo, and built just 23 years after the mission fell,
the historic Menger Hotel is a San Antonio treasure which opened in 1859.
Here, in 1836, frontiersmen David Crockett,
Jim Bowie and a small band of Texas settlers barricaded themselves inside the Alamo and fought to the death against Santa Anna's Mexican army.
San Francisco is a much easier city to get a handle on,
and you can start putting everything into place from the top of Alamo Hill in the Western Addition.
Check out the Alamo Drafthouse website to see if it's playing at a theater near you, then pray
that 2007's Hot Rod is the next Lonely Island joint to get a second life.
One of the most photographed scenes in San Francisco, Alamo Square's famous“postcard row” at Hayes
and Steiner streets is a tight formation of Victorian houses back-dropped by downtown skyscrapers, providing a stunning contrast.
The view across Alamo Square is a postcard seller's dream,
the Painted Ladies(a row of colourful Victorian houses) providing the scenic foreground to a cityscape that stretches from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge.
Over the next 18 months, despite efforts to stop it, water from the Colorado flowed freely into the massive basin, creating two new rivers,
the New and the Alamo, and a freshwater lake, the Salton Sea.
Elswhere, the affluent nook of sleepy
Cole Valley is a pleasant diversion, and Alamo Square is certainly worth a stop,
where six restored Victorian houses and the Downtown skyline provide one of San Francisco's most popular photo opportunities.