Second of two columns
Last Sunday’s column began a response to Joseph McElroy of Dallas, a collector of Texas Centennial items who has commemorative plates depicting the Alamo — not the Centennial Exposition in his hometown — and wondered about San Antonio’s role in the 1936 observance of Texas independence.
For about 3 million reasons (the dollar difference between bids by Dallas and San Antonio), we didn’t get the world’s-fair-style event held in Fair Park, home of the State Fair of Texas…