SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Babe Ruth once spoke at a business luncheon at the St. Anthony Hotel in downtown San Antonio. Rudolph Valentino once danced on the roof. John Wayne, Judy Garland and George Clooney are among Hollywood stars to have visited. So have presidents.
Now the new owners of the Alamo City’s first luxury hotel — also the nation’s first totally air-conditioned hotel — want to restore the more than century-old business to its grandeur and are looking for other recollections and photos of its history.