...LET’S GO


accommodate the business and celebration of the Ladies Auxiliary 98th National Convention. The HBGCC is within minutes and walking distance of thousands of downtown hotel rooms. A streetcar station at Convention


Plaza provides easy access to downtown sites in an authentic reproduction of a rail streetcar.


PICTURING THE PAST This year’s convention is perfectly timed to coincide with the 175th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo. The first of five Catholic missions established by the Spanish church in the 18th century, the


Alamo (originally San Antonio de Valero) was already 100 years old when it fell to the Mexicans follow- ing a 13-day siege in 1836. Visitors can slip back in time


through exhibits so well-designed that the History Channel named it one of America’s top 10 historic sites. And a nearby six-story IMAX screen dramatizes the conflict in “The Price of Freedom.”


TAKE A RIDE OR STROLL BESIDE THE RIVER WALK One story below street level, the


River Walk winds along the San Antonio River and offers restaurants, galleries and shops galore.


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