Alamo Downs operated as a racetrack from 1934-1937, during a brief window of opportunity...
A trade token found in a San Antonio yard commemorates the 1936 Texas Centennial for the Alamo Downs racetrack. Manufactured by a Rochester, N.Y., company, this design was used by many Texas businesses with different messages on the back.When I was out metal detecting , I dug a token commemorating the Centennial, 1836-1936, at the horse races at Alamo Downs. I also found a 1936 silver quarter in the same yard. The token may be rare, as I was unable to find one or any information on it online.
The reverse is type-only — “Alamo Downs Inc./Racing dates Jan. 1st-Feb. 22nd 1936 Inc/San Antonio-Texas.” In minuscule letters at the bottom, it says, “METAL ARTS CO., ROCH. N.Y.” That’s the signature of the “makers of these handsome souvenir pieces struck by the Metal Arts Co. of Rochester, N.Y.,” according to the June 1984 issue of the TAMS Journal.
It’s made of what the journal article describes as “brass ,” referring to a shiny coating some surviving specimens may have lost, with the caveat that the “basic metal may not be brass,” since “it does not tone evenly and could be a lesser metal of some kind.” Besides the officially funded Centennial Exposition in Dallas, historical re-enactments and pageants, markers and monuments — of which the Alamo Cenotaph is one — there were souvenirs of all kinds. Some were approved by the Centennial Commission; others just showed up. There were U.S. postage stamps and 50-cent pieces as well as demitasse spoons, all sorts of chinaware, keychains, paperweights, postcards, booklets, prints and maps.
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