Friday, November 14, 2008

Last Goodbye to Aquarena Springs

From Austin Chronicle, November 14, 2008...

Texas State University – or "Southwest Texas" to most alumni who fondly remember the San Marcos campus – plans to tear down the last vestiges of Aquarena Springs, a wondrous resort hotel and theme park in its preinterstate heyday, a well-known mainstay of the San Marcos economy for decades, and the home of the infamous and lovable Ralph the Swimming Pig. The university plans to remove all of that development and return the springs to a much more natural state over the next few years.

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