San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets

The San Antonio stock show in America is truly stunning showcase of Western heritage features a world class rodeo, national livestock shows and San Antonio stock show  Tickets sales, family activity, and more than twenty thousand head of the best animals anywhere. San Antonio stock show is held yearly from late January to early February in one of the best equestrian centers in America called the Will Rogers Memorial Center.In an emerging Texas cattle town, history was made when one of the first ever Texas Agricultural Fairs was held in San Antonio in 1854. In the following years, many other fairs and shows came to San Antonio and all faced the same problem, insufficient facilities to meet their needs. It was evident South Texas was in dire need of facilities to provide a showplace for a livestock exposition. In the early 1940s, this cry for greater accommodations was heard by Joe Freeman, a man who started the movement which finally gave birth to the Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum. Freeman's main benefit were youth and the agricultural and livestock industries. His vision was to build a coliseum to be used for a number of events specially a livestock exposition for the youth of Texas. After assembling a number of volunteers such as cattlemen and sports minded citizens, the movement began to build this multi-purpose coliseum. In January of 1948, the years of gathering support, hard work, and money was paid off when construction began. The Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum was released/opened to the public in September.

A landmark event took place with the very first Annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo on February 1950. The first exposition met with inexperienced success, entertaining more than a quarter of a million people, a useless record for an opening show. A very positive thinking SALE Executive Committee started to think about encouraging 4-H and FFA high school students to continue their interest in the agriculture industry by majoring in agricultural related majors in college in 1984. In the fall of 1984, the SALE Scholarship Fund was born which awarded fifteen, four year scholarships totaling $90,000 to students entering Texas colleges. Moreover, 2005 San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo is another landmark year in the history of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo. For the first time since 1950 opening, the rodeo and concert performance was not held in the Freeman Coliseum, but in a new state of the art facilitysuch as  the SBC Center, which is located right next door. The SBC Center, a first class arena with exceptional amenities, provided over six thousands more seats and San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets than were before available in the Freeman Coliseum. After that, the Freeman Coliseum then became the home to hundreds of commercial vendors offering the perfect San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets  and venue for rodeo patrons ready to shop. Since SALE's inception in 1950, the Stock Show and Rodeo has grown to be one of the largest and most important, single events to have San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets with over one million visitors entering and buying San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets each year.

To date, the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo educational commitment exceeds $58 million San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets with a record $6.1 million committed in 2004 in the form of scholarships, grants, endowments, auction, calf scramble program and show premiums paid to the young poeple. The success of the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo event has made a positive impact on the community because world class rodeo action and entertainment and ability to offer financial support such as San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets to Texas youth is the result of many hours of hard work by committed SALE volunteers. SALE has an important rich tradition and history of stewardship to the community, agriculture industry and young people of Texas. With a clear vision of the future, a successful past and continual devotion from over four thousand volunteers to sell San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Tickets, SALE will continue to offer wholesome family entertainment and be a source of strength and support to Texas youth.