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Many were native-born Tejanos, others were immigrants from Mexico who had fled to Texas during the revolutionary years. San Antonio’s West Side was where most of the city’s 100,000 Spanish-speaking residents lived.

It wasn’t a fantasy-the Spanish colonial landmarks and Mexican rhythms were real-but there was another San Antonio, one of far grittier authenticity, that remained out of the line of the typical tourist’s sight, particularly in that celebratory centennial year.

This Depression-era publication, like almost all the other guidebooks written since, presents readers with a salute to the city’s Old World charm, its markets and fiestas and tortilla vendors and picturesquely crumbling missions. This observation is from a guidebook to San Antonio published in 1938 as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project. “San Antonio is-as it has always been-a place of romance, a city where mañana (tomorrow) and quien sabe (who knows) ever have been and still are words of significance.”

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