In 1968 HemisFair Park was built in downtown San Antonio Texas to host the 1968 Worlds Fair, as well as to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of San Antonio. The Riverwalk along with many other locations were beautified for this historic event. It is believed that this is the time frame when this jubaea or jubaea hybrid was planted on the Riverwalk. The palm gets no special care from what I've been able to tell and is actually in a distant part of the Riverwalk which till rec