One man is credited with creating the River Walk. He got fired halfway through the project. [Video]

SAN ANTONIO – The shops, restaurants and river barges that draw people below street level downtown today were the idea of a young architect named Robert H. H. Hugman.

“He was 27 years old in 1929 when he came up with what he called the Shops of Aragon and Romulus. Sounds like ‘Game Of Thrones’ or something,” said Vincent Michael, Ph.D., executive director of the Conservation Society of San Antonio.

Hugman’s plan came about years after a flood devastated downtown in 1921.

Water rose to 11 feet at the corner of St. Mary’s Street and Commerce Street.

Fifty people were killed.

The …