Those days are gone for the most part. Only elbow room along the River Walk. I enjoyed the steaks and nickel beer at the Buckhorn Saloon if and when I went downtown. The Chinese Sunken Gardens are flowerless and dried up last time I checked. This place just took off and changed overnight. Lost a lot of its innocence and small-town character. It used to be cowboys, military, and senoritas. Now it's just new subdivisions every few months and more overpasses. The airport is way inside the city limits now.

Last time I was there, other than passing through, was 1981 on my first honeymoon. The Alamo looked like the Alamo, and I got my new wife mad at me by getting hammered in the Buckhorn Saloon. The Riverwalk was a blast, and we really enjoyed seeing some of the old Spanish missions in the area.
The fan clutch on our car went out while we were there, and we stopped at what we used to call a service station to have it checked out. Since we were just kids with Just Married all over the car, they fixed it for the price of the part.
I also remember sitting at a red light, and some guy across the way yelling "You'll be sorry!" Because of the stuff on the car.
Boy, was he ever right!!

You may not know this, but, in drawing SS, the janitor is likely to receive more than the doctor, assuming the doctor was smart enough to invest in a private retirement program during his working years.. so, though the doctor's monthly payments to SS/Medicare would have been at least triple those of the janitor, when it comes time to receive SS, he will be penalized big time for also having a private retirement fund. If he is like me, he will get less than $400 from SS, out if which is deducted his mandatory medicare payments. Doesn't seem really fair, does it?