Last Sunday, July 15 was our second time down to San Antonio on the San Antonio Project, one week after our successful interview with the Norman's. We were just doing location shooting so it was just Rodd, Mark, and myself. It was a little more laid back because we weren't interviewing anyone, we didn't need to be anywhere at a certain time or look presentable in front of anybody, we just went to some buildings and checked them out. The first stop we went to was the Bailey Street chapel. I learned from Mark that Harold B. Lee dedicated it and that Sis. Norman was the first baby blessed in it. It is found in the middle of a suburb, surrounded by a chain-link fence and all boarded up. It was a very dilapidated building. There was a walkway through the fence so we were able to walk around and get a closer look, it was almost kind of sad, this building plays a prominent part of the story we are trying to tell, it was a very significant mark in the history of the church in that area, but now it just sits there lost and forgotten. As we were taking some panning exterior shots there was a neighbor who just had a look of a gangster, was he? Probably not, but we decided to humor ourselves and think it was, anyway he was lookin tough and spewed out a signal whistle to his homies letting them know that some guys with cameras were invading their turf. That's my theory anyway, to make it more exciting. Our next stop was the Thomas Jefferson High School, which the early church met for stake conference in that area. It was a really cool high school, it had a very old, archaic, almost colonial (Thomas Jefferson?) structure to it. It also had a firescape in the form of a metal slide. Awesome? Yes. Our last stop was the St. Cloud Chapel which was the first stake center built in the area and is still in use today. I got some marvelous shots with the evening sun glistening behind the trees and steeple. Anyway, the accompanying video diary to this blog is Video Diary #2, so check it out!
