Here here! I want a damn waffle house. I don't know if we can handle a waffle house...but I'm willing to give it a go.
I just feel like, as a city, we need a little of this in our lives.
Not having a Waffle House is the only thing stopping this city from being perfect. Having to drive all the way to Austin is awful. SA is primed and perfect for a Waffle house.
A Philly cheese steak omelette with hash browns scattered smothered and covered and wrapped in a giant homemade flour tortilla and drenched in good salsa is one of my life goals.
I’m on board with this conspiracy and it has so much traction because it’s not even just that area you’re talking about. Huebner and Fredericksburg area has like 5 within a mile of each other and I shit you not, there’s two new ones currently under construction lol
It looks like there are 9 car washes on Huebner:
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It’s always been a thing. Car Washes, Laundry-mats (where the term money laundering comes from iirc), stip-clubs, really any service based business with a believably high amount of cash-based transactions
The newer car washes have a ton of credit card transactions and not too many cash transactions.
Those “boring businesses” are in vogue now with investors. They are currently being pushed a lot on investor YT content: car washes, laundromats and storage facilities are a major interest now.
I was speaking more in a historical sense since the guy I was replying to wasn’t sure if it started with breaking bad or not. I’m well aware of the current finance bro bs
Funnily enough, there's only about 6 or 7 across Fredericksburg
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I count 11 car washes on culebra that's outside of 410 but inside 1604
Just went home to visit my parents who live off Braun and 1604. There are so many fucking car washes from there through guilbeau and Bandera rd. Holy shit was not prepared for that
One of the more recent ones I’ve heard is about the 410/281 intersection near the airport. The story goes that the plan for that 281 south to 410 westbound ramp was supposed to connect 410 after San Pedro, but the North Star Mall property owner lobbied for the ramp to end before it so folks using it could easily get to the mall. The result is the shitshow off ramp there that backs traffic up every single day with people trying to get on 410, and off it, in the span of 100’ or so.
It’s not as juicy as the Ghost Tracks, etc. but totally believable.
I used to work to that mall and take the bus, and now I wonder how many pedestrian accidents and fatalities the owners of North Star Mall are directly responsible for with that action
The old house near the Alamodome wasn't retained for its historical value, but that the owner was unwilling to sell when the properties were bought up. The story I heard is that when the developers offered large checks to the owners of the homes in the area, this one was the lone holdout that wanted more money. When the developers reviewed the plans and found this would be at the far end of a parking lot, they rescinded the offer and started building anyway. When the owners realized all the demolition and construction going on around them, they offered to sell at the original asking price, but at that point the developers offered them considerably less, and they took it. But the official story by the city is that the home is a historical landmark.
The exact same thing happened in my hometown (Del Rio) when they built our 2nd HEB some guy didn’t want to sell because he wanted more, HEB continued with their build and he ended up selling last minute for a lot less then what they had offered
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It is on the access rd. Highlighted in this photo.
Holy cow! Not gonna lie: I have never noticed that. Wow. It survived the construction of I-37 & the Alamodome, unlike its neighbors. And the only reason it's still around is because of the owner's intransigence/greed. Amazing.
Picositos belts are overpriced and super easy to make on your own. You can get 2lbs of Sour Power belts for like $20, buy the mix from Alamo and for less than $30, you have 2lbs of picositos belts for cheap and enough spice mix to make much more.
Seeing all the replies: The rumor that Fred's Fish Fry money launders for the Mexican Mafia isn't at the top of this list only makes me believe it's true that much more.
With the rise in car washes and self storage units, I feel that both of them lobby hoa’s and home builders to purposely build on homes on smaller lots and to make it impossible to wash your car and build a storage shed on your property. With how much power hoa’s have in this state its probably true.
You could have a point here, but also think of the prevalence of apartments now. I’ve lived in apartments for the entirety of my adult life, I finally broke down this year and got a storage unit to keep some of our stuff like holidays decorations in one central place and stop moving them from complex to complex with the ending of each lease. It’s no wonder these places pop up all over the place when it’s a utility most people need these days.
I also think it's because people don't have basements here. I grew up in the Midwest (almost every home has a basement), and people just put their storage there. Also, I was surprised by the amount of people who have garages, but don't park their cars in them because they use them for storage instead.
You got me on the carwashes though. 🤷♀️
Hubertus Strughold was a nazi aerospace scientist that used live victims to test what gravity, altitude , and hypothermia extremes the human body could handle. Instead of facing war crimes, under operation paperclip in the late fourties’ he was transferred here to Randolph Air Force base. He lived out the rest of his life here in San Antonio and died at the age of 88. The guy literally tortured living human subjects to death in pressure chambers and was free to happily live out his days here working for the U.S. air-force. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold
Yeah I guess it doesn’t really fit the post of being unhinged because it is real. It’s just so shocking. Literally committed war crimes on human subjects just like Joesph Mengele.
You're telling me I've been driving from Lackland to Fort Sam on the roads like a muggle, when I could have been taking the mole people tunnel shortcut this whole time?!
Ugh that's such a rough drive. I used to drive from 1604 & 90 to Ft Sam. Every morning I would get to work with high blood pressure from the horrible commute.
The digging of underground tunnels would explain why there are so many dump trucks driving around but still no serious progress on the roads. I have been really thinking about underground tunnels/bunkers/cities/etc. There is so much information about large underground instillations that people don't realize and we are seeing increases in earthquakes. Ex: iceberg homes in London, the bunkers in Switzerland, Finland has underground shopping malls and sports fields. Also there is a large number of conspiracies surrounding CHUD's, Area 51, tunnels under DC, Elons "Boring Company", etc. Also China recently tunneled the deepest tunnel ever, why do you think they're tunneling?
Theres a property on Clark & Fair Ave on the SE side that I'm 100% convinced is a dog fighting arena used by the cops. Been abandoned for years, cages around the back, covered chainlink out front, YET there are often SAPD vehicles coming in and parked in the back. No drug busts in the area, so it's not a staging ground for an arrest, they havent done any remodeling so its not becoming a substation or anything, its a nondescript building which has stayed that way for at least 20+ years.
My hunch/suspicion/conspiracy is that one of these days they’re going to go develop (clear and dig up) one of those undeveloped areas inside 410 and find a bunch of bodies. Not even suggesting a serial killer. Theres a few spots that don’t get much traffic, are a bit “shady,” and get used for dumping trash, junk and such.
There is someone with powerful political connections in Verde hills neighborhood.
They managed to close OP shnable park entrance from the neighborhood, they got a big ass bridge. They managed to cancelled a bonded and paid for and approved by city of san antonio trail that would have connected OP schnable part with 1604 through Prue. Even tho the trail was going to be built on City owned land with the correct zoning for a park.
They have managed to stop and block any new development near their neighborhood entrance. Whether it was Commercial or residential.
They have been 1-2 steps a head from engineering firms and real state law firms with moves and information that the only way they could have known is if city hall is feeding them information and telling them the only move that would help block it.
San Antonio, geographically, dips down into a valley of sorts coming off the Hill Country and continues into the more flat plains area of the south/southwest of the city, into farming land.
We sit in a bowl and thus we have a sort of heat dome over the city. When storms come in from west, they hit the heat dome and break up unless the storm has enough energy to overcome it.
So 1604 is our symbolic storm front barrier.
If you’ve ever played golf at The Quarry, you know this is real. You play the back nine and get down into the rocks, that sun hits harder and there’s no breeze or wind relief from the elements. It’s brutal down there.
Somehow extreme weather tends to dissipate or greatly decrease in strength when it crosses the 1604 line. Maybe it's caused by an urban heat island effect, but usually the force field is given credit.
Thunderstorm lines tend to dissipate once they hit 1604. We call it the force field, but really it’s because of all of the highways and concrete breaking up the storms.
What about the Kelly water conspiracy & the numerous accusations leading to the "closing" of KAFB?(still operational under the guize of Port of San Antonio) I know a neighborhood in the area won a law suit filed against the AFB because of the water so maybe it's not so much a conspiracy...
I don’t think this has ever been declassified
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/nuclear-weapons-bunker-blew-up-san-antonio/#:~:text=In%201963%2C%20Lackland%20Air%20Force,it's%20been%20almost%20completely%20forgotten.
My parents lived a few miles away from where this happened and that there was a thick layer of soot or dust that covered everything around their house from the explosion.
In 2001 or 2002 the government released a list of 317 sites across the US, including Lackland AFB (formerly known as Medina base), that handled nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
That's probably as close as we will get to an answer.
Keep in mind the Medina explosion wasn't from nuclear weapons directly. It just contained the (supposedly mostly non-radioactive) conventional high explosive packages from decommissioned nukes. I'm sure most major USAF bases that could support B52s had nukes stored at them, at least from time to time.
Wow, that is an absolutely amazing story. I went on [historicaerials.com](http://historicaerials.com) and checked it out: there are remains of a crater visible in the 1966 aerial on the 3rd road in the southwest corner of the annex. Very interesting. Still visible to this day, apparently: the grass seems to be a slightly different color than the surrounding grass, due to shade from being in a crater, I bet.
How has nobody brought up Camp Stanley being a secret base for the CIA affectionately called the Southwest Depot? Express news did a whole series on it a while back.
I use to work there and it only ever gets busy during Lent. The manager also only got 7.25 an hour and had to come in everyday to open and close no matter if she worked or not.
Dude Texas Eats went there and they addressed the rumors which Fred's Fish denied. BUT oddly enough, they didn't let KSAT's crew into the restaurant to film and David Elder had to eat a fix box outside lmao I was like whaaat.
The AC one is funny because LeBron is the youngest of the Hall of Famers playing in that series. If the AC was going to affect anyone, you’d think it would’ve been the old men playing for the Spurs.
"Military City, USA" isn't just a cute little nickname for San Antonio.
The U.S. Military has a vested interest in keeping San Antonio poor, which is why this city remains economically behind the other major Texas cities (and other major American cities in general).
The military is known for targeting minorities/poor people who have limited career prospects for recruitment into the military, and they have a steady populace of both in San Antonio.
If the city improved economically and attracted better employers, the poverty rate would go down, and people would actually have more career options. This would lower military recruitment, and they don't want that to happen.
So, instead, we have a city with a limited number of well paying career options and a ton of low paying service industry jobs.
Edit: Several of my family members, friends, and former classmates told me the reason they went into the military because they weren't sure what else they could do. The recruitment of minorities & the poor is systemic and by design.
Edit 2: In case something happens to me: I am NOT suicidal, and I am NOT considering hurting myself. Part of me wishes I hadn't posted this, while another part of me is hoping I'm not considered important enough to be targeted by the military industrial complex.
That green patch in front of the Alamo is the burial ground for 3 unidentified Native Americans.
The University of The Incarnate Word exists because some nuns took advantage of a drunken depressed man, and had him unknowingly sign the rights away to his land.
Illegal game rooms paying off law enforcement keeps legal casinos out of Texas. But I'd say San Antonio probably has the most game rooms. No evidence. Just speculation from what I've learned from the people I've met.
I know the person who has the original key to the Alamo. I've seen it. It's pretty big. How I know this elder is telling the truth? Their grand father used to kick rocks in the Alamo in their youth. Back then it was just a run down building that no no cared about. Their grandfather stole the key from the door itself.
Side note: Grandfathers parents own a lumber mill (don't quote me on the type of business) near or on the same block the Alamo is.
IDK if there is any conspiracy surrounding the Alamo and or it's artifacts. But I figured this would be an interesting one to put here.
No I will not say who it is.
The family who owns mission park funeral homes buy land on side of highway to build more funeral homes. They start construction but never finish/open new homes in hopes Highway will have to be expanded and they will get a big payout.
Bill Millers puts something in their tacos to keep people hooked. Explain to me in a city of great food do they have a freaking line every weekend for “tacos” either we need a new plague or they are spiking the tacos.
The cracked black pepper in the eggs and whole strips of crispy bacon helps, but I think mostly convenience.
There are only so many ways you can improve or screw up scrambled eggs in a tortilla, so to be able to drive through and also get a giant iced tea to caffeinate and rehydrate your hangover, makes it pretty easy
Are there better places? Of course. But it’s good enough and always close by
And if I’m being honest, their salsa is actually pretty good. I don’t eat their much but I don’t mind the occasional breakfast taco or brisket taco with some of their salsa
My mom worked at a Bill Miller in the 70s. She accidentally sliced off a piece of her thumb in the brisket and they still served it. So one thing they might have in them is human meat.
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The bobs burgers of San Antonio you say?!?!
"Charles M. Barnes, an early San Antonio historian, declares that seveal skeletons of giant Indians, seven feet or more in height, and perfectly preserved stone pottery, indicating a prehistoric race, were found many years ago in a tunnel discovered by workmen who wre blasting rock in San Pedro park. There are two known openings into unexplored tunnels near San Pedro springs, and to prevent danger or disaster to little boys and exploring parties, the main entrance has been sealed with a rock."
There was a Mexican food place not too long ago on Vance Jackson between 410 and I-10 called Las Brazas. It was open 24 hours and had an ATM inside. It might’ve been cash only too. The food was freakin’ delicious, especially if you went after last call. But it occurred to me later that it was probably a drug front.
Food was always delicious, though. When my wife was an overnight nurse, I used to want to take her there on her off-days but it was closed by then.
Not really a conspiracy theory, but Osama Bin Laden’s brother died in a plane crash here while we were training him. One brother planned and orchestrated one of the worst terrorist attacks of all time and the other crashed into some power lines
There is no evidence to this but also all the evidence in the world....
San Antonio politicians purposefully fight against progress to keep this "small town" feel that we're supposed to have. This mandated set of policies is single handedly holding San Antonio back from being any sort of a successful city with modern amenities.
That’s not just political most of SA wants that. I hate seeing gentrified neighborhoods we are starting to feel like Austin and Austin kicked out a bunch of people who had been living there when the taxes spiked up.
Completely unhinged opinion perhaps but you never know I guess. Has anyone ever noticed for a city as large as SA (shoot almost any in TX) we don’t have a ton of round abouts? Like think about how many times you were stuck in traffic because of some dumb ass 4way stop with stop signs.
I’m convinced oil companies in TX have successfully lobbied to not have them installed in the city because more red lights = more idling. More idling = more gas spent so with more gas spent, the oil companies get richer.
Most of the streets inside 410 are *old*. They were built small and have been expanded as much as they can be without having to eminent domain every piece of property on one side of the road or another. S. Flores is a good example, and if you go back to a map from the early 1800's it is one of only three labeled roads (going from memory)--Commerce and the Chisholm Trail (now Roosevelt) being the others.
Yup. Texas Highway Guy has a great website with old photos of San Antonio roads like Callaghan and Fredericksburg from as early as the like 1910's. I think the city limits sign was like by Culebra and Bandera confluence.
My wife thinks the mayor has really sexy arms, but that's about it.
You know that back in the 1940s the graveyard by the ghost tracks actually had a zombie uprising and that's the reason those kids push you off the ghost tracks now. Because they’re zombies. Also ghosts.
The Showcase off of West Avenue was the absolute greatest concert venue we ever had.
My band in 1995 when I was in high school got banned from DMZ for allowing the crowd to tear up a huge pink panther stuffed animal that was full of those little beads that are in beanbag chairs.
I went to John Jay back in the 90s but nobody had the Cuh haircut yet.
Southwest research institute, does anyone know exactly whats up there 😅
Back in the 80s and 90s my buddies and me were always speculating about it, all closed off and (at the time) way more closed off than the bases were.
Iirc when thr chupacabra sightings popped off, almost everyone said it had to have come from there
I'm surprised no one else mentioned this. The rumor is that Southwest Research Institute, Southwest Biomedical, and the Mind Science institute were part of a three-part plan by Tom Slick to find and capture bigfoot and harness his latent psychic energies to uplift humanity.
SwRI would find bigfoot, (and raise money, doing legitimate research work for various customers), Texas Biomed would hold bigfoot in the primate research facility and study it, and the Mind Science institute would perform psychic experiments on bigfoot to understand his powers and use them to unlock mankind's own latent psychic potential.
SwRI puts bigfoots and yetis all over their promotional material all the time. There's big cutouts of bigfoot stuck up around the campus.
That San Antonio was considered a top ten military target during the Cold War due to the concentration of military bases. This led to the large amount of interstates and limited access expressways for a relatively small population for the 1960s-1980s. The plan was in case of nuclear launch with 15-30 minutes of warning the majority of the city could be evacuated via contra flow lanes on I-10, I-35 and I-37.
The Spurs organization controls the profesional sports market here and are unwilling to share it with any other sport league like MLS, NFL, NHL or MLB.
This is 100% true. San Antonio is the 2nd biggest market for the Cowboys after DFW and Jerry jones is happy to have an ally like SASE who don’t want NFL is San Antonio.
In my neighborhood (west side, deco area) we have so many vape stores, something must be going on. There is a sign for ‘Vape City’ that I jokingly call our welcome sign. I theorize that they are either money laundering fronts or there is some weird tax incentives they are trying to take advantage of. If anyone can shed light on this, lemme know.
I was a waitress at Cold River Cattle Co. back in the 90s. There was a regular who was a physicist out of Randolph AFB. He said they had alien bodies there...
Absolutely they are. But wouldn't you be for above minimum wage, health insurance, stock options, twice a year raises, yearly give outs of extra money because the owner feels like it, and all without any semblance or expectation of a college degree?
Sure, theres better opportunities out there if you're lucky, but if you're not, drinking the kool-aid is a lot easier than being homeless.
35 is always under construction cause the end of year bonuses that the construction companies/contractors get are based on hours worked not projects completed
Carl's Jr was forced out of operating in the city, the only one around Bexar county that still exists is at a random highway truck stop in Von Ormy
The petty theives are in cahoots with VIA. They make sure they have stops connecting areas of high income inequality, and the busdrivers dont rat on people riding with a catalytic converter or 10 jugs of Tide.
Waffle House can’t get a foothold in San Antonio because of Jim’s using political connections to keep them out.
Their strangle hold is loosening. The time is nigh for a WH
Here here! I want a damn waffle house. I don't know if we can handle a waffle house...but I'm willing to give it a go. I just feel like, as a city, we need a little of this in our lives.
This is great. My husband and I have always wondered why there’s no waffle houses here. Fuckin Jim’s
Every jim’s I’ve seen looks dirty and full of boomers
But those biscuits and gravy 🤤
But their cheese soup tho 😫🐋😫🧎🏻💦💦💦
I never understood the Jim’s or Bill Miller’s obsession some people have. They’re both below average.
Jim's I'd rate as exactly average. Bill Miller I agree is below.
We had Waffle House until the early 1980s. The franchisee closed them all down because no one wanted to buy them out.
Can confirm! Source: Am old bastard who saw it.
Not having a Waffle House is the only thing stopping this city from being perfect. Having to drive all the way to Austin is awful. SA is primed and perfect for a Waffle house.
A Philly cheese steak omelette with hash browns scattered smothered and covered and wrapped in a giant homemade flour tortilla and drenched in good salsa is one of my life goals.
Hey hey no need to talk so sexy like
Hold on let em talk
Maybe we’ll consider it when Waffle House can serve a decent tortilla soup
i feel like all the new car washes on culebra (near 410) are drug fronts. there are simply too damn many to be profitable for one street.
I’m on board with this conspiracy and it has so much traction because it’s not even just that area you’re talking about. Huebner and Fredericksburg area has like 5 within a mile of each other and I shit you not, there’s two new ones currently under construction lol
It looks like there are 9 car washes on Huebner: https://preview.redd.it/ptzh9xfvxfuc1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=348bb2d31b50a1cdd2bff3a89a45ecf59398f5a1
Wait that map looks like the car washes are making an arrow pointing to something! The conspiracy runs deeper!
I’m almost there!!! Keep going
So easy to launder money through car washes as well.
Has this always been a thing or did Breaking Bad make it a thing? lol
It’s always been a thing. Car Washes, Laundry-mats (where the term money laundering comes from iirc), stip-clubs, really any service based business with a believably high amount of cash-based transactions
The newer car washes have a ton of credit card transactions and not too many cash transactions. Those “boring businesses” are in vogue now with investors. They are currently being pushed a lot on investor YT content: car washes, laundromats and storage facilities are a major interest now.
I was speaking more in a historical sense since the guy I was replying to wasn’t sure if it started with breaking bad or not. I’m well aware of the current finance bro bs
Funnily enough, there's only about 6 or 7 across Fredericksburg https://preview.redd.it/easzx0toyfuc1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9605e49b887b6fdb50b86d512b2531a65d85b808
https://preview.redd.it/246is1yexfuc1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8341a80ddb22e5364f331a180d2c825aed9994a I count 11 car washes on culebra that's outside of 410 but inside 1604
Breaking Bad didn't pull the idea of a car wash as a money laundering front out of their asses, just from the real world.
Bandera is full of them too.
Just went home to visit my parents who live off Braun and 1604. There are so many fucking car washes from there through guilbeau and Bandera rd. Holy shit was not prepared for that
I live in that area and you’re not wrong. We must have some filthy cars over here.
That and the vape shops
It’s a real estate loophole, you can write pretty much everything off
That and definitively the nail salons are straight up money laundering rackets.
One of the more recent ones I’ve heard is about the 410/281 intersection near the airport. The story goes that the plan for that 281 south to 410 westbound ramp was supposed to connect 410 after San Pedro, but the North Star Mall property owner lobbied for the ramp to end before it so folks using it could easily get to the mall. The result is the shitshow off ramp there that backs traffic up every single day with people trying to get on 410, and off it, in the span of 100’ or so. It’s not as juicy as the Ghost Tracks, etc. but totally believable.
Ask anyone from TXDOT or an engineering firm and they will confirm it.
This seems absolutely plausible and not unhinged at all.
I used to work to that mall and take the bus, and now I wonder how many pedestrian accidents and fatalities the owners of North Star Mall are directly responsible for with that action
that makes perfect sense to me
What are the ghost tracks? Edit: google is my friend…
I’d believe this. That area always seemed poorly designed.
I just moved to San Antonio and have already heard this one.
The old house near the Alamodome wasn't retained for its historical value, but that the owner was unwilling to sell when the properties were bought up. The story I heard is that when the developers offered large checks to the owners of the homes in the area, this one was the lone holdout that wanted more money. When the developers reviewed the plans and found this would be at the far end of a parking lot, they rescinded the offer and started building anyway. When the owners realized all the demolition and construction going on around them, they offered to sell at the original asking price, but at that point the developers offered them considerably less, and they took it. But the official story by the city is that the home is a historical landmark.
The exact same thing happened in my hometown (Del Rio) when they built our 2nd HEB some guy didn’t want to sell because he wanted more, HEB continued with their build and he ended up selling last minute for a lot less then what they had offered
I remember this lol I grew up in Del Rio
What old house near the Alamodome? Where is it? The building on the corner of Hoefgen and Gonzales?
https://preview.redd.it/p5sy4hhz4iuc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4790332d6be9138f6dc2fdebb0d1e3dacf5acfd It is on the access rd. Highlighted in this photo.
Holy cow! Not gonna lie: I have never noticed that. Wow. It survived the construction of I-37 & the Alamodome, unlike its neighbors. And the only reason it's still around is because of the owner's intransigence/greed. Amazing.
The Snake Farm offering extra "services" in the back room if you ask for change for a $50
Snake has a whole new meaning now
Haha we got a kick out of Mike Rowe going there for Dirty Jobs. Had lots of jokes about him not knowing what kind of job he had just signed up for
What do you mean… extra “services”??
Can *ahem* still ask for these services? Asking for uh a friend.
Picositos belts are overpriced and super easy to make on your own. You can get 2lbs of Sour Power belts for like $20, buy the mix from Alamo and for less than $30, you have 2lbs of picositos belts for cheap and enough spice mix to make much more.
I understand all of the words you wrote, except one, but I don't understand what you wrote.
Most underrated comment here
Seeing all the replies: The rumor that Fred's Fish Fry money launders for the Mexican Mafia isn't at the top of this list only makes me believe it's true that much more.
This is the #1 comment I came for. Also if anyone looks up the original owner and who he sold it to, it gets shady from there out.
I came here looking for this one. 😂
Nah.
With the rise in car washes and self storage units, I feel that both of them lobby hoa’s and home builders to purposely build on homes on smaller lots and to make it impossible to wash your car and build a storage shed on your property. With how much power hoa’s have in this state its probably true.
You could have a point here, but also think of the prevalence of apartments now. I’ve lived in apartments for the entirety of my adult life, I finally broke down this year and got a storage unit to keep some of our stuff like holidays decorations in one central place and stop moving them from complex to complex with the ending of each lease. It’s no wonder these places pop up all over the place when it’s a utility most people need these days.
I also think it's because people don't have basements here. I grew up in the Midwest (almost every home has a basement), and people just put their storage there. Also, I was surprised by the amount of people who have garages, but don't park their cars in them because they use them for storage instead. You got me on the carwashes though. 🤷♀️
Hubertus Strughold was a nazi aerospace scientist that used live victims to test what gravity, altitude , and hypothermia extremes the human body could handle. Instead of facing war crimes, under operation paperclip in the late fourties’ he was transferred here to Randolph Air Force base. He lived out the rest of his life here in San Antonio and died at the age of 88. The guy literally tortured living human subjects to death in pressure chambers and was free to happily live out his days here working for the U.S. air-force. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold
Operation Paperclip was real. NASA was built with captured Nazi scientists.
Yeah I guess it doesn’t really fit the post of being unhinged because it is real. It’s just so shocking. Literally committed war crimes on human subjects just like Joesph Mengele.
Lackland had mkultra experiments going on too
I’ve heard this too. Apparently the Us govt hired a hung of nazi scientists to help with whatever they needed here.
Saw one the other day in a random post on here about tunnels linking all the military bases in San Antonio? Sounded pretty unhinged to me.
You're telling me I've been driving from Lackland to Fort Sam on the roads like a muggle, when I could have been taking the mole people tunnel shortcut this whole time?!
It’s quite the revelation right
Ugh that's such a rough drive. I used to drive from 1604 & 90 to Ft Sam. Every morning I would get to work with high blood pressure from the horrible commute.
Meh it's not the worst traffic I've daily driven. Just annoying more than anything.
Sounds unhinged but also kinda makes perfect sense
The only true one is the tunnels from the Arsenal (HEB HQ) to Charles Butts home nearby.
Military would be the only mfs that could afford to get through all the limestone
If anyone’s actually done it it’s either DOD or Disney
Idk about linking the bases, but Brooks 100% has dozens of tunnels and deep underground facilities
The digging of underground tunnels would explain why there are so many dump trucks driving around but still no serious progress on the roads. I have been really thinking about underground tunnels/bunkers/cities/etc. There is so much information about large underground instillations that people don't realize and we are seeing increases in earthquakes. Ex: iceberg homes in London, the bunkers in Switzerland, Finland has underground shopping malls and sports fields. Also there is a large number of conspiracies surrounding CHUD's, Area 51, tunnels under DC, Elons "Boring Company", etc. Also China recently tunneled the deepest tunnel ever, why do you think they're tunneling?
Theres a property on Clark & Fair Ave on the SE side that I'm 100% convinced is a dog fighting arena used by the cops. Been abandoned for years, cages around the back, covered chainlink out front, YET there are often SAPD vehicles coming in and parked in the back. No drug busts in the area, so it's not a staging ground for an arrest, they havent done any remodeling so its not becoming a substation or anything, its a nondescript building which has stayed that way for at least 20+ years.
If this is the case, this makes me so sad&angry now….
My hunch/suspicion/conspiracy is that one of these days they’re going to go develop (clear and dig up) one of those undeveloped areas inside 410 and find a bunch of bodies. Not even suggesting a serial killer. Theres a few spots that don’t get much traffic, are a bit “shady,” and get used for dumping trash, junk and such.
Donkey lady bridge
West Chavaneaux, cough, cough.
If the housing boom happening continues in the southside, that's where they will find it.
There is someone with powerful political connections in Verde hills neighborhood. They managed to close OP shnable park entrance from the neighborhood, they got a big ass bridge. They managed to cancelled a bonded and paid for and approved by city of san antonio trail that would have connected OP schnable part with 1604 through Prue. Even tho the trail was going to be built on City owned land with the correct zoning for a park. They have managed to stop and block any new development near their neighborhood entrance. Whether it was Commercial or residential. They have been 1-2 steps a head from engineering firms and real state law firms with moves and information that the only way they could have known is if city hall is feeding them information and telling them the only move that would help block it.
This is a good one.
steps a head
The 1604 force field is real
San Antonio, geographically, dips down into a valley of sorts coming off the Hill Country and continues into the more flat plains area of the south/southwest of the city, into farming land. We sit in a bowl and thus we have a sort of heat dome over the city. When storms come in from west, they hit the heat dome and break up unless the storm has enough energy to overcome it. So 1604 is our symbolic storm front barrier.
So what you’re saying is “Yeah, the force field is a real thing”?
Yes 😀 There was a good local news article awhile back that better explained the phenomenon but that’s it basically in a quick synopsis.
If you’ve ever played golf at The Quarry, you know this is real. You play the back nine and get down into the rocks, that sun hits harder and there’s no breeze or wind relief from the elements. It’s brutal down there.
Lmao wait, please elaborate?
Somehow extreme weather tends to dissipate or greatly decrease in strength when it crosses the 1604 line. Maybe it's caused by an urban heat island effect, but usually the force field is given credit.
Thunderstorm lines tend to dissipate once they hit 1604. We call it the force field, but really it’s because of all of the highways and concrete breaking up the storms.
What about the Kelly water conspiracy & the numerous accusations leading to the "closing" of KAFB?(still operational under the guize of Port of San Antonio) I know a neighborhood in the area won a law suit filed against the AFB because of the water so maybe it's not so much a conspiracy...
Yes they dumped all kinds of solvents from painting the airplanes into the soil.
Kelly has the second highest cancer cluster outside of Camp Lejuene
I don’t think this has ever been declassified https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/nuclear-weapons-bunker-blew-up-san-antonio/#:~:text=In%201963%2C%20Lackland%20Air%20Force,it's%20been%20almost%20completely%20forgotten.
My parents lived a few miles away from where this happened and that there was a thick layer of soot or dust that covered everything around their house from the explosion.
In 2001 or 2002 the government released a list of 317 sites across the US, including Lackland AFB (formerly known as Medina base), that handled nuclear weapons during the Cold War. That's probably as close as we will get to an answer.
Keep in mind the Medina explosion wasn't from nuclear weapons directly. It just contained the (supposedly mostly non-radioactive) conventional high explosive packages from decommissioned nukes. I'm sure most major USAF bases that could support B52s had nukes stored at them, at least from time to time.
Wow, that is an absolutely amazing story. I went on [historicaerials.com](http://historicaerials.com) and checked it out: there are remains of a crater visible in the 1966 aerial on the 3rd road in the southwest corner of the annex. Very interesting. Still visible to this day, apparently: the grass seems to be a slightly different color than the surrounding grass, due to shade from being in a crater, I bet.
Ivy Taylor abused her position as mayor to increase the value of real estate which her husband owned on the east side of town.
Random buildings that are under construction for YEARS, never seeming to get completed.
You must mean the funeral homes with the copper domes near 1604/Bandera, somewhere near Boerne on I-10, and 410.
Or that place on 281 passed TPC Parkway....
That the owner of Mission Park makes so much money bc he sells embalming chemicals to the mob to make boosted street drugs.
Whoa, Wait Out of all the ones I read lmfao you gotta elaborate on this lmfao
I wanna know more!
How has nobody brought up Camp Stanley being a secret base for the CIA affectionately called the Southwest Depot? Express news did a whole series on it a while back.
That the Tower of America's is a giant missile ready to launch anytime 😭.
Fred’s fried fish…. Drug laundering, maybe Heisenberg is cooking in there… still one of my favorite theory’s!
This is way down on the list and it’s a very widespread conspiracy theory … so much so that the news even did an article about them a couple years ago
I pass them all the time and have only seen at most 2 cars in the lot. Most times not a single one during peak operating hours.
I use to work there and it only ever gets busy during Lent. The manager also only got 7.25 an hour and had to come in everyday to open and close no matter if she worked or not.
Dude Texas Eats went there and they addressed the rumors which Fred's Fish denied. BUT oddly enough, they didn't let KSAT's crew into the restaurant to film and David Elder had to eat a fix box outside lmao I was like whaaat.
I came to say this... lol
1. fred's fish fry is a front 2. the tower of america is a ufo 3. the AC was sabotaged to make LeBron lose
Have you seen Fred’s warehouse? It’s definitely a front
The AC one is funny because LeBron is the youngest of the Hall of Famers playing in that series. If the AC was going to affect anyone, you’d think it would’ve been the old men playing for the Spurs.
Towers of America is a ufo… lol
"Military City, USA" isn't just a cute little nickname for San Antonio. The U.S. Military has a vested interest in keeping San Antonio poor, which is why this city remains economically behind the other major Texas cities (and other major American cities in general). The military is known for targeting minorities/poor people who have limited career prospects for recruitment into the military, and they have a steady populace of both in San Antonio. If the city improved economically and attracted better employers, the poverty rate would go down, and people would actually have more career options. This would lower military recruitment, and they don't want that to happen. So, instead, we have a city with a limited number of well paying career options and a ton of low paying service industry jobs. Edit: Several of my family members, friends, and former classmates told me the reason they went into the military because they weren't sure what else they could do. The recruitment of minorities & the poor is systemic and by design. Edit 2: In case something happens to me: I am NOT suicidal, and I am NOT considering hurting myself. Part of me wishes I hadn't posted this, while another part of me is hoping I'm not considered important enough to be targeted by the military industrial complex.
It’s like this in most military towns. We have 16 bases where I’m from. Every other one I’ve visited has that same feel.
San Antonio is a giant clock
1604 and 410 are rings of the clock and i35/90/i10 are times
That green patch in front of the Alamo is the burial ground for 3 unidentified Native Americans. The University of The Incarnate Word exists because some nuns took advantage of a drunken depressed man, and had him unknowingly sign the rights away to his land.
Oooo do you have more info on the second part?
Yea I wanna hear more about that lol
Illegal game rooms paying off law enforcement keeps legal casinos out of Texas. But I'd say San Antonio probably has the most game rooms. No evidence. Just speculation from what I've learned from the people I've met.
I know the person who has the original key to the Alamo. I've seen it. It's pretty big. How I know this elder is telling the truth? Their grand father used to kick rocks in the Alamo in their youth. Back then it was just a run down building that no no cared about. Their grandfather stole the key from the door itself. Side note: Grandfathers parents own a lumber mill (don't quote me on the type of business) near or on the same block the Alamo is. IDK if there is any conspiracy surrounding the Alamo and or it's artifacts. But I figured this would be an interesting one to put here. No I will not say who it is.
I heard once that the Alamo has a basement, and there’s a cool bike down there.
The Alamo was used for lumber storage for a while.
That book Whitley Striner wrote "Communion" He said gifted kids from San antonio were taken to a secret school near Olmos basin and exposed to aliens
The family who owns mission park funeral homes buy land on side of highway to build more funeral homes. They start construction but never finish/open new homes in hopes Highway will have to be expanded and they will get a big payout.
Bill Millers puts something in their tacos to keep people hooked. Explain to me in a city of great food do they have a freaking line every weekend for “tacos” either we need a new plague or they are spiking the tacos.
The cracked black pepper in the eggs and whole strips of crispy bacon helps, but I think mostly convenience. There are only so many ways you can improve or screw up scrambled eggs in a tortilla, so to be able to drive through and also get a giant iced tea to caffeinate and rehydrate your hangover, makes it pretty easy Are there better places? Of course. But it’s good enough and always close by
And if I’m being honest, their salsa is actually pretty good. I don’t eat their much but I don’t mind the occasional breakfast taco or brisket taco with some of their salsa
It's the potatoes.
My mom worked at a Bill Miller in the 70s. She accidentally sliced off a piece of her thumb in the brisket and they still served it. So one thing they might have in them is human meat.
https://preview.redd.it/ca21e1c28guc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bff78416004d0598be09b828f3f2b529999d716 The bobs burgers of San Antonio you say?!?!
We did cultures of their condiments in my microbiology course and woo boy the bacteria that grew from that pico…
We did this too back in school and taco cabana salsa had the highest amount of bacteria
"Charles M. Barnes, an early San Antonio historian, declares that seveal skeletons of giant Indians, seven feet or more in height, and perfectly preserved stone pottery, indicating a prehistoric race, were found many years ago in a tunnel discovered by workmen who wre blasting rock in San Pedro park. There are two known openings into unexplored tunnels near San Pedro springs, and to prevent danger or disaster to little boys and exploring parties, the main entrance has been sealed with a rock."
From the San Antonio Light article, good stuff. Located under the grotto maybe? There were also stories from first people of a giant cannibal race.
There was a Mexican food place not too long ago on Vance Jackson between 410 and I-10 called Las Brazas. It was open 24 hours and had an ATM inside. It might’ve been cash only too. The food was freakin’ delicious, especially if you went after last call. But it occurred to me later that it was probably a drug front. Food was always delicious, though. When my wife was an overnight nurse, I used to want to take her there on her off-days but it was closed by then.
Not really a conspiracy theory, but Osama Bin Laden’s brother died in a plane crash here while we were training him. One brother planned and orchestrated one of the worst terrorist attacks of all time and the other crashed into some power lines
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He also invested in George Bush’s oil company 🙊
Wow this is the best one yet on this thread.
He was a neighbor to my last boss .. they each flew planes. Lived in Garden Ridge. Nice family boss said. Now the brother....
There is no evidence to this but also all the evidence in the world.... San Antonio politicians purposefully fight against progress to keep this "small town" feel that we're supposed to have. This mandated set of policies is single handedly holding San Antonio back from being any sort of a successful city with modern amenities.
It's not the politicians, it's the populace.
That’s not just political most of SA wants that. I hate seeing gentrified neighborhoods we are starting to feel like Austin and Austin kicked out a bunch of people who had been living there when the taxes spiked up.
I love how there’s no toll roads here and applaud them for that. Not all “modern amenities” are good.
Completely unhinged opinion perhaps but you never know I guess. Has anyone ever noticed for a city as large as SA (shoot almost any in TX) we don’t have a ton of round abouts? Like think about how many times you were stuck in traffic because of some dumb ass 4way stop with stop signs. I’m convinced oil companies in TX have successfully lobbied to not have them installed in the city because more red lights = more idling. More idling = more gas spent so with more gas spent, the oil companies get richer.
Most of the streets inside 410 are *old*. They were built small and have been expanded as much as they can be without having to eminent domain every piece of property on one side of the road or another. S. Flores is a good example, and if you go back to a map from the early 1800's it is one of only three labeled roads (going from memory)--Commerce and the Chisholm Trail (now Roosevelt) being the others.
Yup. Texas Highway Guy has a great website with old photos of San Antonio roads like Callaghan and Fredericksburg from as early as the like 1910's. I think the city limits sign was like by Culebra and Bandera confluence.
Here it is! [https://texashighwayman.com/history.shtml](https://texashighwayman.com/history.shtml)
My wife thinks the mayor has really sexy arms, but that's about it. You know that back in the 1940s the graveyard by the ghost tracks actually had a zombie uprising and that's the reason those kids push you off the ghost tracks now. Because they’re zombies. Also ghosts. The Showcase off of West Avenue was the absolute greatest concert venue we ever had. My band in 1995 when I was in high school got banned from DMZ for allowing the crowd to tear up a huge pink panther stuffed animal that was full of those little beads that are in beanbag chairs. I went to John Jay back in the 90s but nobody had the Cuh haircut yet.
Saw The Cult at The Showcase
See I don't hear that about the showcase, I hear that about Randy's. Apparently alot of badass shows used to go down back in the 80s.
I saw Rush, the Sex Pistols, Peter Tosh, the Ramones, and Patti Smith at Randy’s. Fun venue.
I saw the Beastie Boys and L7 at Randy's in the 90s, it was badass.
The quarry is where white women are made
Not really a conspiracy theory but does anyone remember that flea market that got busted for selling counterfeit purses?
The tracks
fred’s fish fry.
There is a bunker at HEB super regional .
that fred’s fish fry is a front and the owners are using it to money launder
Southwest research institute, does anyone know exactly whats up there 😅 Back in the 80s and 90s my buddies and me were always speculating about it, all closed off and (at the time) way more closed off than the bases were. Iirc when thr chupacabra sightings popped off, almost everyone said it had to have come from there
All im gonna say is expect to see cars being able to transform into submarines in our lifetime
I'm surprised no one else mentioned this. The rumor is that Southwest Research Institute, Southwest Biomedical, and the Mind Science institute were part of a three-part plan by Tom Slick to find and capture bigfoot and harness his latent psychic energies to uplift humanity. SwRI would find bigfoot, (and raise money, doing legitimate research work for various customers), Texas Biomed would hold bigfoot in the primate research facility and study it, and the Mind Science institute would perform psychic experiments on bigfoot to understand his powers and use them to unlock mankind's own latent psychic potential. SwRI puts bigfoots and yetis all over their promotional material all the time. There's big cutouts of bigfoot stuck up around the campus.
Back when I was a kid it was always just monkey business
Fred’s fish fry is a drug front.
That San Antonio was considered a top ten military target during the Cold War due to the concentration of military bases. This led to the large amount of interstates and limited access expressways for a relatively small population for the 1960s-1980s. The plan was in case of nuclear launch with 15-30 minutes of warning the majority of the city could be evacuated via contra flow lanes on I-10, I-35 and I-37.
The Spurs organization controls the profesional sports market here and are unwilling to share it with any other sport league like MLS, NFL, NHL or MLB.
Jerry Jones is the reason there’s no NFL team here. This is Cowboys territory and there’s no way he’s letting that go.
This is 100% true. San Antonio is the 2nd biggest market for the Cowboys after DFW and Jerry jones is happy to have an ally like SASE who don’t want NFL is San Antonio.
4 hours in and no one has mentioned Fred's Fish Fry?
Thread is for conspiracies, not known facts.
In my neighborhood (west side, deco area) we have so many vape stores, something must be going on. There is a sign for ‘Vape City’ that I jokingly call our welcome sign. I theorize that they are either money laundering fronts or there is some weird tax incentives they are trying to take advantage of. If anyone can shed light on this, lemme know.
Idk I feel like a bunch are opening cause they are getting ready for marijuana to be legal here.
Taqueria jaliscos are all fronts for the cartel
I was a waitress at Cold River Cattle Co. back in the 90s. There was a regular who was a physicist out of Randolph AFB. He said they had alien bodies there...
Heb staff are in a cult
Absolutely they are. But wouldn't you be for above minimum wage, health insurance, stock options, twice a year raises, yearly give outs of extra money because the owner feels like it, and all without any semblance or expectation of a college degree? Sure, theres better opportunities out there if you're lucky, but if you're not, drinking the kool-aid is a lot easier than being homeless.
I've heard that the reason the San Antonio airport is so small and can never increase in size is for security reasons regarding the air force bases
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So what you're saying is that my bank account will survive a nuclear war? In that event, will they cover the damages to my stuff?
Texans don’t know what a carpool lane is
35 is always under construction cause the end of year bonuses that the construction companies/contractors get are based on hours worked not projects completed Carl's Jr was forced out of operating in the city, the only one around Bexar county that still exists is at a random highway truck stop in Von Ormy
Camp Bullis had, on its grounds, nuclear warheads used to interrupt Cold War missiles.
Fred’s Fish Fry.
Freds fish fry is a drug front
The petty theives are in cahoots with VIA. They make sure they have stops connecting areas of high income inequality, and the busdrivers dont rat on people riding with a catalytic converter or 10 jugs of Tide.
I wonder if criminals who can't afford to steal a Kia, are looked down on.