Category Archives: Do You Know…?

Dwight and Gail moved to Lavaca after a four year stay in the San Francisco Bay area. This is their second time living in San Antonio, and they are very happy to be back. They previously owned a home in the northwest suburbs of the city, but decided that a more urban, walk-able neighborhood was [...]

Anyone who has been to our La Frite Happy Hour event knows Stephen… our server “extraordinaire”. Stephen initiated La Frite’s daily Happy Hour a few years ago, and was instrumental in starting the Lavaca & Friends weekly Happy Hour event with Jim and Jane.
Stephen was born in Lakenheath England. His father was in [...]

Syeira Budd
Syeira moved from Long Beach, California to San Antonio in 2002, to pursue “the great unknown.” At the time, she didn’t know if she’d stay for six months or six years. Nine years later, she is still here and enjoying San Antonio’s unassuming treasures and diverse celebrations.
She lived in three other areas of [...]

Joan Carabin
There is no one more committed to Lavaca than Joan Carabin. She has been living in the neighborhood with her husband Bob since 1993, first on Lavaca Street and now on Callaghan Avenue.
Joan grew up in Rochester, New York and joined the Victory Noll Missionary Sisters in 1955. She did her training in Huntington, [...]

Janyce Sisson
Janyce Sisson is an avid supporter of Lavaca’s weekly happy hour at La Frite. In fact, she says it played a big role in her choice of the neighborhood as a place to put down roots.
Within a few weeks of renting a Callaghan Avenue “transition” home in early 2010, Janyce was convinced that the [...]

Jim Feuerstein & Micky
Jim Feuerstein is one of the co-founders of the Lavaca & Friends Happy Hour, and he rarely misses the Thursday event.
Jim was born and raised in a small rural community in Wisconsin. He first left the state to attend college on the West Coast, but since then he’s moved fairly often. He’s [...]

Paula Haley
Paula is a native Texan and was born and raised in the Texas Panhandle. Paula graduated from Texas Tech University and received her Masters Degree from Northeastern State College in Oklahoma. Upon graduation from Texas Tech, Paula worked for the Red Cross in Vietnam. After spending one year in Vietnam, she came back to [...]

Johanna & Sami Sawalha
Born in Sweden, Johanna came to the United States a little over 20 years ago. She lived in New York up until last year. But San Antonio beckoned, and she moved here in June 2010 with her husband Ziad and their son Sami.
They bought their home at 140 Lavaca and quickly fell [...]

Brian Rountree & Hugh Donagher
Hugh Donagher and Brian Rountree relocated to Lavaca from Silicon Valley in January of this year. Quite by accident, they stumbled into the Lavaca & Friends happy hour the very first Thursday they were here, and they’ve been regular fixtures in the neighborhood since. They have settled in on Barrera Street, [...]