SAPL : August 7 In San Antonio History

Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:

August 7, 2021

1922

Permission to drive through downtown streets clad only in swimming suits, was refused a dozen belles bound for Lambert Beach and Brackenridge Park.

1945

The San Antonio Express and Light newspapers both report that a bomb, larger than any previously known, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima causing great damage and loss of life. However, back on July 16, the San Antonio newspapers did not pick up a little-publicized story printed in the Gallup, NM; Santa Fe, NM and El Paso newspapers that mentioned a huge explosion at a munitions dump near the Alamogordo Army Air Base. This was actually the first nuclear test and would have been quite a scoop. News of the July 16 test was finally printed today along with the news of the Hiroshima bombing.

1953

The Gunter Hotel garage, one of the oldest in town, is being razed to make way for an open-air parking lot. And with it goes Tommy Hester’s barbershop, which for more than 15 years, has occupied a little niche at the Travis Street entrance to the garage.

This press release was produced by the San Antonio Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.