SAPL : September 9 In San Antonio History...

Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:

Andrew Crews

September 09, 2021

1971
Actor Henry Thomas (“E.T.”, “Raggedy Man”) is born in San Antonio.

1995
San Antonio’s new Children’s Museum holds its grand opening in the Vance Building at 305 E. Houston Street.

2004
The bottling house at the Pearl Brewery burns to the ground. The three-alarm fire, well under way by the time a security guard spotted it at 2 a.m., took with it a 107-year old, 40,000-square-foot structure with an arched doorway and windows and the mission-style arch of the Alamo. It took 85 firefighters more than 90 minutes to bring the massive fire under control. The plant’s golden-domed brew house also was damaged.

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