SAPL : March 9 In San Antonio History...

Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:

Andrew Crews

9 March 2022

1731
The first Canary Islanders arrive in San Antonio. Their legacy lives on today in Main Plaza downtown, also called Plaza de las Islas.

1990
The Resolution Trust Corp. sells the San Antonio Savings Association, founded 69 years ago and operated by three generations of the McAllister family, to a Dallas-based holding company that operates First Gibraltar Bank in a deal that will cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $890 million. At 6 p.m. the savings association was officially renamed First Gibraltar-San Antonio.

1995
The City Council awards the river barge contract to Yanaguana Cruises instead of Paseo del Rio Boats who had run them since 1949. Yanaguana changed ownership in 2002 and was renamed Rio San Antonio Cruises.

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