San Antonio Uncovered by Mark Louis Rybczyk (1992)

Mark Louis Rybczyk and Richard III Rouse · 1992 · Wordware Publishing, Plano, Texas · ISBN 1-55622-145-2

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Bibliographic detail

Title: San Antonio Uncovered
Authors: Mark Louis Rybczyk (KZEP-FM radio personality “Shanghai Jack”) with Richard III Rouse
Edition held: First edition, 1992
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Plano, Texas
ISBN-10: 1-55622-145-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-55622-145-3
Pagination: 290 pp.
Format: Trade paperback

Physical description

Trade-paperback popular history / travel guide. Includes bibliographical references and an index. Cover and condition to be confirmed in-hand.

Provenance

Acquired 29 September 2014 via Amazon (referrer tag ppx_hzod_title from the Amazon order-history link); accessioned as HH-BOOK-2014-0008.

Why it matters

San Antonio Uncovered is a popular SA history / travel reference that mixes neighborhood vignettes, landmark anecdotes, and place-by-place description of the city H and H Coffee operated in. It sits on the SA-context shelf alongside Saving San Antonio (Fisher, 1996), Downtown San Antonio (Korte & Pech, 2013), and Historic Photos of San Antonio (Faulkner, 2007), but the Rybczyk volume is lighter and more conversational — useful for surfacing offbeat or under-documented sites and oral-tradition leads rather than scholarly attribution.

For H and H research the book is lead-finding material: any mention of West Commerce, Delaware Street, the produce / coffee / spice trade district, the Hoffmann or Hayman families, or named coffee businesses would justify chasing the underlying source.

Open questions

Does any entry mention Hoffmann-Hayman, H and H Coffee, 601 Delaware Street, or 1223 W. Commerce? Largely resolved (2026-07-22): a full-text search of a later edition digitized on Google Books (2016 Trinity University Press printing, id Web_DAAAQBAJ, descended from the 2000 2nd edition) for “Hoffmann” and “Hayman” returns no results for either. The collection’s holding is the 1992 first edition specifically, which wasn’t independently searched (no Google Books preview exists for that printing), so this isn’t a perfect substitute for an in-hand check — but a trivia/fun-facts book that gained no H&H mention across two later editions is unlikely to have dropped one from the first.
Does it surface any leads on the early-twentieth-century West Commerce industrial corridor that would extend or correct what is already documented in places/601-delaware-street.md?