SAPL : October 31 In San Antonio History...

Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:

Andrew Crews

31 October 2021

1938
George Johnson, station manager, of KTSA reports in the San Antonio Light that he received a call from an official at Fort Sam Houston who asked “what in the hell are you doing?” during last night’s broadcast of “War of the Worlds.”

1967
In the process of lifting the tophouse to the top of the Tower of the Americas structure, three steel lifting rods snapped halting the process. Elmer Joiner, project engineer, said that if one more rod had broken, the whole tophouse structure would have fallen to the ground crushing as many as ten men. In the meantime, seven giant cranes have been brought in to support the tophouse while the lifting rods are being replaced.

1993
An arctic cold front brings a record low temperature of 27 degrees to San Antonio and breaks a number of records. It is the earliest day in San Antonio history that the temperature has dropped into the 20’s.

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