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Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:
Andrew Crews
27 October 2021
1938 Sears, Roebuck & Co. moves from the Transit Tower location to their new downtown headquarters at Romana Plaza. In 1995, this location would become the San Antonio Central Library.
1940 H.G. Wells, in San Antonio to attend the 65th annual United States Brewers Convention, meets Orson Welles for the first time at the Plaza Hotel. Welles stopped in the city briefly, en route to Tucson to scout a movie location. He admitted to being apprehensive at meeting the "War of the Worlds" author.
2007 The Trinity Tigers defeat the Millsap Majors 28-24 on the last play of the game using 15 laterals.
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