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Years ago, the Blue Bonnet Hotel graced San Antonio s River Walk. When I was a girl, my father, Richard Yorgensen, used to tell me stories about how he would stay in this River Walk hotel back in the early 1950 s. My father had many mementos of San Antonio in with his military souvenirs. intercontinental hotel miami Note the postcard and the matchbook below from the hotel where he learned to love San Antonio and the beautiful River Walk.
After he got out of the Air Force in Fort Worth, he stayed in Texas for a while, living in Fort Worth, attending photography school, and working in a meat market. Below is a photo of my dad and me on April 18, 1987, my wedding day. The Blue Bonnet Hotel was destroyed the next year.
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Years later, after he passed away, my husband and I moved to San Antonio. I was anxious to see the Blue Bonnet Hotel where my father had spent so many happy days as a young man. I looked all over downtown along the River Walk, but could never locate it.
The photo above is where the Blue Bonnet once stood. I went there yesterday, November 29, 2008, for the first time and could picture my father as a young man, getting off a Greyhound bus, right across the street intercontinental hotel miami and coming over to check in to the hotel each month.
It was quite a moment intercontinental hotel miami for me to stand where my dad once stood. How sad I felt when I saw that now there stands a Bill Miller barbecue. I went there on a Saturday and the Bill Miller was not even open. What a waste to tear down this historic hotel for the promise of a large bank to be built, yet nothing ever came of it.
The Blue Bonnet Hotel was built back in 1927 and was located on the corner of North St. Mary s and East Pecan Street, right on the San Antonio River. The actual address, according to one article I found, was 426 N. St. Mary s Street. Another website said the address was 200 East Pecan Street and that the building went from 450 to 498 North St. Mary s Street on the other side. However, a reader who says her mother had a shop there says the real address was 424 N. St. Mary s Street. See her comments at the bottom of this article.
The high rise hotel had 250 rooms. Each room had its own bathroom. Air conditioning was installed in 1953. Prior to that, the hotel used ceiling fans and circulating ice water to keep the rooms cool. Back in the 1930s and 1940s, country music stars used to record intercontinental hotel miami songs in a recording studio in the hotel according to the research I did.
Doug wrote: I went to SA in 1983 to take a job at Kelly AFB amp; lived at the Blue Bonnet for almost a year until I could afford an apartment! I ran across intercontinental hotel miami your photos and comments and wanted you to know I m starting a research intercontinental hotel miami project on the history of the hotel. It has a long amp; colorful history which I plan to discover in some of my research amp; some I learned while living there. I, too, was sad it was demolished.
Carol wrote: When my husband was stationed at Fort Sam Houston in the Army I went to San Antonio to visit him. We couldn intercontinental hotel miami t get in the post guest house until the second night of my stay so we stayed at the Blue Bonnet Hotel the first night I was there. Being from a small Indiana town, I thought the Blue Bonnet was the most beautiful hotel I d ever seen! Several years later while stationed at Fort Hood we drove down to San Antonio for a weekend. We wanted to see the Blue Bonnet again, but it was closed for remodeling. I didn t know it had been torn down until I read your article. I think I still have some mementos of the Blue Bonnet myself.
Lamar wrote: intercontinental hotel miami I have have been walking around downtown San Antonio all afternoon looking for the Bluebonnet. intercontinental hotel miami When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s I used to come up from Corpus and play in Chess tournaments at the blue bonnet. They had an annual Bluebonnet Open Chess Tournament and chess players came from all over Texas to play. Thank you for sharing. Your site solved intercontinental hotel miami a mystery for me.
Shelly wrote: My mother had a flower shop in the Blue Bonnet Hotel during the 2nd World War. It was probably the most popular flower intercontinental hotel miami shop for the soldiers. The address was 424 N St Marys St. I have a copy of an ad for the shop in the 1944 yellow pages my sister s face graces the ad. She would work with my mother in the shop. By the way, all the postcards you show of the hotel predate the bus station.
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I have led a busy life, working as a great employee, being an active church member, daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother, and business owner. When I have free time, it is almost always filled up with things to do. With the little real free time I do get, I can always think of something fun and enjoyable to do.
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