b'./I~~the tenth largestThe San Antonio River, one -Uf{j~one ofof the most exceptional tourist city and the country\'s fourspots in the world, meanders most unique cities, is the place to beits way through the downtown November 10-13, 1985. Our return tobusiness district, twenty feet the city of sunshine promises to bebelow street level. Lined with our most exciting convention to date.a lush, subtropical terrain, Hundreds of the latest roofing prod this deep green waterway is ucts and equipment will be displayedthe center of its own comin our Trade Show, housed in themunity. While strolling along San Antonio Convention Center. Semi the cobblestone paths, one nars packed with the most currentcan find an array of Europeandata on roofing technology will bestyle sidewalk cafes, specialty conducted in spacious meeting roomsboutiques, showy nightclubs in the Convention Center. You willand restaurants of internaenjoy speakers of national promi tional cuisine. With an average nence who will address our luncheonannual temperature of 68.8 audiences. The crowning event ofdegrees and three hundred our convention will be our banquetdays a year of clear, blue and dance, at which time the covetedskies, San Antonio is perfect JamesQ.Mccawley Award will befor year-round river tours presented.aboard open-air barges or self-powered paddleboats. While walking along the banks ofhome of the 1968 World\'s Fair and ./I~~a city where rem- location of the seven-hundred-fifty- the River, one can visit La Villita, an Uf/li,a: nants of a col- original San Antonio settlement. Localfoot Tower of the Americas. From the orful past areartists not only sell their wares inrevolving restaurant or the observation juxtaposed with the energy of anrestored historic stone houses locateddeck at the summit of the Tower, one even more exciting future. Located inthere, but also demonstrate theircan see the city spread beneath as it the heart of Texas, it is a city ofcrafts for spectators.gradually fades into the Texas Hill almost one million people with a vividCountry. cultural heritage spanning more thanOnce on the street level, open-air two hundred fifty years. A city setwooden trolleys or horsedrawn car The city\'s close proximity to Mexico firmly in the Sunbelt, San Antonioriages are available for touring down is most evident at El Mercado, San has definitely prospered from itstown. One of the city\'s well-knownAntonio\'s bustling Mexican marketcareful planning, rich Mexicandowntown sites is HemisFair Plaza,place. The cobblestone pedestrian heritage and many gifts ofmall is complete with arts and crafts nature.shops, clothing boutiques, jewelry On a stroll through down stores, restaurants and a farmer\'s town, one can discover manymarket - all with a "south of the of the sites for which Sanborder" flavor. Antonio has become famous - the Riverwalk, also calledSouth of the city near the San the Paseo del Rio; La VillitaAntonio River are historic Eighteenth (the Little Village); El Mer Century Spanish missions. Established cado (the Mexican market by Franciscan Friars, the four missions place); and HemisFair Plaza.are still active churches. An inspiring Also nestled in the heart ofmariachi mass is celebrated each the downtown area is theSunday at San Jose Mission. San Alamo, where over one hun Jose is the largest and most elaborate dred eighty brave men foughtof San Antonio\'s missions but each and died in the name ofof the four has its own charm. Texas independence. This popular visitor\'s spot carries memories of famous men who./I~~has the advan-were legends in their ownlJ//ji,a: tages of a major time, including Davy Crockett,city, the diversity Jim Bowie and William Travis.of many cities and the originality of Here began one of the mostonly one city. It is a truly charming heroic and dramatic battlesplace of history and tradition, carefully in history.blended with cosmopolitan progress.'