SAN ANTONIO - Remember the days before they called it "Black Friday" and it was just a shopping trip to "The Big Store. " That was Joske's Department Store - a five-story, 551,000 square feet of retail heaven in downtown San Antonio that was once called “The Biggest Store in the Biggest State. " Joske's was also the first fully air conditioned shopping center in Texas.
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Lifelong San Antonian, East Side resident and a member of the Coalition for the Woolworth Building Nettie Hinton, seated, speaks Tuesday in front of the Woolworth Building at the corner of Alamo and Houston streets about the peaceful integration of the downtown institution on March 16, 1960.William Luther /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Members of the Save the Woolworth Coalition prepare Tuesday, March 16, 2021. to march in front of the building to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the peaceful integration of the former downtown institution’s lunch counter.William Luther /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less