{"id":239007,"date":"2025-09-19T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:30:11","slug":"universal-city-celebrates-65-years-as-incorporated-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239007\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal City celebrates 65 years as incorporated city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tUniversal City celebrated 65 years as an incorporated city Sept. 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Universal City\u2019s first City Council officially adopted a Texas code making it a general law city on Sept. 6, 1960. San Antonio doctors Henry Ogilvie, Witten Russ and Samuel Cunningham bought farmland in late 1929, speculating that the future Randolph Air Force Base would attract homes and businesses. The tract of land was named Universal City in 1931, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/entries\/universal-city-tx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas State Historical Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The population of the city was approximately 1,800 at the time of incorporation in 1960. As of July 2024, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/universalcitycitytexas\/BZA115223\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">population<\/a> was estimated to be 20,267 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before you go<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the occasion, the city displayed vintage photos at City Hall. On Sept. 23, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universalcitytexas.gov\/396\/Library\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal City Library<\/a> will host author Michael Hoffman for an informational session on the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal City celebrated 65 years as an incorporated city Sept. 6. The gist Universal City\u2019s first City Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,127965,127966,127967,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,14427,16372,16369,127968,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-239007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council-near-me","10":"tag-government-near-me","11":"tag-randolph-air-force-base","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-universal-city","21":"tag-universal-city-business","22":"tag-universal-city-government","23":"tag-universal-city-tx","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115231209800699523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}