Worth Visits the Alamo!

But will he remember it?  Doubtful, but I will...

Want to see the oldest known photographic image of the Alamo, taken in 1849?

The famous "camel's back" arch was not original to the structure.

Stone walls and arches that surround the site were erected in the 1920's.

Splash and make a wish!

Archetectural detail on the front facade.

Worth enjoys an ice pop outside the gift shop.

Checking out the big guns...

Side view from inside the Convento Courtyard.

From Remember the Alamo by Patrick Cox, Ph.D

"The eighteenth century Franciscan chapel survived more than a century of hurricanes, floods, epidemics, hostile Indians and, finally, secularization and distribution of the mission's assets to the local community. In the early 1840's, bats and owls inhabited the former mission and battlefield. The ruins also attracted the young boys of that era who played among its crumbling walls. The U. S. Army probably saved the abandoned structure when it turned the place of worship into a quartermaster storage building in 1846. (It's hard to fathom that hay and hardtack were housed in the same rooms that witnessed Christian rituals and bloody combat). "

How true...