[QUOTE=theOGalexd; So it has always,always, been not merely now. San Antonio has always been the forgotten poorer cousin of Houston and Dallas. Always. Since as far back as I can remember, it has always been. Jobs paid better in those two cities, money flowed more freely there and The Big D and Houston grew faster and bigger and richer- and now, Austin. Austin's population in 1964 was 80,000 for instance. San Antonio's population was 400,000 in 1964.
When Hemisfair construction was in full swing in 1967 and the City was in the very beginning of remaking itself, major hotel chains like Hilton etc. flatly refused to build hotels in San Antonio because it was too much a "backwater town" where there was no money to be made.
Why, that San Antonio, wasn't even worth an investment "way out there".
San Antonio was truly "way out west" to them, too much an unknown commodity.
I don't know where we sit currently but tourism was the main source of income here in the City for a long time. We have surely diversified and are making gains all the time but there has never been a substantial
manufacturing base here. For this I am glad because aside from the atmospheric side effects from autos the city is pretty clean pf ground pollution for a city of the size of San Antonio. Hell the aquifer has been, until recently been completely clean of contamination and the water still, is relatively pure of the effects from the ground pollution caused by manufacturing activities.
This is a very good thing. The River is probably the most polluted thing around. The River is also the "Crown Jewel of Texas".
As a 20 something, in my eyes SA always seems to be the forgotten major city in TX. All of us on here know there's a lot happening and the city is completely different than it was 10 years ago.