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OUTINGS
Purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at www.sctexas.org or at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for outings listed for the first time will be available Monday, Nov. 2, at 8 a.m.
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“Nazi Olympics 1936” – UT Stark Center
Austin - NEW!
Lunch – Flix Brewhouse, Round Rock
Tuesday, January 19, $52 pp
Depart SCPL 8:15 a.m.; Return 3 p.m.
“The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936”
exhibit is a must see, according to the Austin
American Statesman. With photographs,
vintage videos and accounts from athletes,
learn how Hitler manipulated the two-week Olympic Games to
his advantage. UT’s Olympic champion swimmer Adolph Kiefer
remembers meeting Hitler and the tension that permeated the air
during the games. At a cost of $100,000 to UT and its sponsors,
three large trucks delivered 91 crates of historic material for this
exhibit. Learn about the hidden side of Berlin and the politics
behind this sporting event.
After viewing the exhibit, we will stroll through the UT Alumni
House where the UT greats hang out before the football games.
View the football championship trophies, the Heisman Trophy
award and numerous other UT football awards in the Trophy
Room, as well as the Walk of Fame corridor.
Lastly, enjoy lunch at Flix Brewhouse. Chow down on a large,
tasty hamburger with French fries complete with a beer tasting
of six of their core beers or iced tea or soda.
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small bus with no amenities and a possible bumpy ride.
Ticket cost includes transportation, entrance fees, lunch, and
beer tastings.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Ellen Mire
SAS Factory Tour & El Mercado - NEW!
Lunch on Your Own
Thursday, January 21, $28 pp
Depart SCPL 8:30 a.m.; Return 4:30 p.m.
First we will head to the San
Antonio El Mercado where you can grab a late
breakfast, an early lunch or shop at El Mercado,
the largest Mexican shopping center in the city.
Restaurants include Mi Tierra Café & Bakery
and La Margarita Restaurant & Oyster Bar, as well as food
vendors in the market.
At noontime we will head to the SAS Factory and General Store
for a tour of their handcrafted shoes. Most of their shoes have
polyurethane soles that cushion your feet on millions of tiny air
bubbles so you are literally walking on air. You will have a chance
to win a pair of shoes! Step back in time and shop in the General
Store with a complete line of SAS shoes and handbags. Enjoy a
sweet treat in the candy store or ice cream parlor. Vintage cars
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and early farm equipment are displayed around the store.
Ticket cost includes transportation and tour.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Flo Zydowicz
US Army Medical and CAF Centex Museums
San Antonio and San Marcos - NEW!
Lunch on Your Own – Rudy’s Bar-B-Q
Saturday, January 23, $34 pp
Depart SCPL 8 a.m.; Return 5:30 p.m.
First we head to Fort Sam Houston in
San Antonio to learn about the 200+ year
history of the Army Medical Department. A
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evolution, a restored hospital train car, modern wheeled
ambulances, and medical helicopters. A Medal of Honor Walk
honors 52 Medical Corp recipients, including Dr. Mary Walker,
the only woman to earn this award.
After lunch on your own at Rudy’s Bar-B-Q, we are off to San
Marcos for some Air Force history.
During World War II, the San Marcos Army Air Field housed a
navigator training school, now home to the Central Texas Wing of
the Commemorative Air Force and their vintage aircraft museum.
The display includes fourteen historic aircraft, including a B-25
Mitchell bomber and a P-39 Airacobra pursuit plane; aviation
memorabilia; and replicas of a Japanese torpedo bomber and a
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exhibit displays the B-25 seat back of Lt. Col. Jimmie Doolittle,
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onto the army base.
Ticket cost includes transportation and museum fees.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Jerilee Prather
Women of Texas History Tour – Austin - NEW!
Lunch – The Carillon
Wednesday, January 27, $55 pp
Depart SCPL 8:30 a.m.; Return 3:30 p.m.
Learn the remarkable history
of several special Texas women. Though most
of them may be relatively unknown, they forged
Texas history, and these women will enchant
you. We will begin with a private tour in the State Capitol as we
learn about these women, their lives, what they did for Texas
and how they survived in this rugged land. After our tour, we
will head over to the Texas Archives to learn about another
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