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This San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation property has been a
landmark for generations of San Antonians, who would “meet you at
the clock.” Cast in iron by E. Howard Clock Company of Boston, it
was first installed in front of Eli Hertzberg Jewelry Company on
Commerce Street in 1878. In 1910, the company – and its clock –
moved to the corner of St. Mary’s and Houston Streets. When Zales
purchased the company in 1964, the store relocated to suburbia,
leaving the clock behind.
In 1982, Mrs. Thomas C. Bordelon and Mrs. Jesse B. Poston, daughters
of long-time Hertzberg owners Max and Nell Goodman, donated the
clock to the Conservation Society Foundation in their parents’
memory. Through the generosity of the Republic Bank San Antonio;
London Watch and Clock Company; and Kurt Voss Metals, Inc., the
clock was restored. The clock is unusual in that it continues to be
hand wound rather than electrically driven. |
