Can you believe? In 1940 San Antonio’s population was 200,000.  WWII brought a surge of new people and by the 1950 census, the city had grown to 400,000. How many of you remember that the post office printed on all outgoing envelopes a message that read “America’s fastest growing major city”? Growth continued, and it always intrigued me that after returning to SA in 1979 people on the phone (i.e. telephone order takers) would frequently ask in which state we were located, despite a population of around 800,000. Population is now approximately 1.2 million. Earlier this week, I read that growth is expected to continue and that by 2050 it will double. The city is already too big, so maybe it is a blessing that we will not be around to see it. There will not be enough water!

Harry Jones: Over the past couple of years, a lot of us who know Harry have lost contact.  Emails bounce back, the phone is not connected, and when I wrote recently, the letter was returned with the unable to deliver notice. Fortunately, Bob Tate found a telephone number for Harry’s daughter, Lee Ann, and this morning she and I had a cordial conversation. Harry is in a long-term health facility in Lockhart, Texas in poor health. He is no longer on the computer nor phone. Like many of us, his memory is not as sharp as it once was, but Lee Ann says that he does relish mail. If any of you care to write Harry, I will send you a mailing address.

More memories:

  Jim McNeel and Doug Campbell

Bill Solcher, Don & Patsy Martin, and Harry Wharton

Jane McRoberts, Betty Stensland, Bettye Sue Conrad, and Louise Dobbins