โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Local restaurant caters to taco-loving crowds 24/7 Employees work all night, in some cases, to cater to restaurant's after-hours crowd.
12 months of โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: The year in reviewA look back at some of the people and places featured in "While You Were Sleeping" in 2019.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: FedEx employees get up early to guarantee speedy deliveriesFedEx workers get up early to get ahead of the holiday rush.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: The Original Donut Shop makes mornings sweet by cooking overnightThe line of cars each morning often stretches through the parking lot at The Original Donut Shop and spills onto the street in the 3300 block of Fredericksburg Road.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Local clinic solves middle-of-the-night pet problemsTucked in a strip mall on San Antonio's Northwest side is a middle-of-the-night saving grace for some people who own pets.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Animal Care Services officers on job long after office hoursWhile the animals she rescues and recovers clearly can't tell time, Officer Melissa Smith can almost set her watch to the idea that her workday will include plenty of activity.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Man answers call when things go bump in night at historic hotelLittle did he know he later would end up keeping house there, watching over the business and its guests during the overnight hours.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Late night bingo parlor keeps Lady Luck working overtimeIt may be one of the last things youโd think of anyone doing in the middle of the night, sitting around and playing what, technically, is a board game.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Dozens of workers give AT&T Center repeated overnight makeoversIt's a process that literally has to happen overnight, and he oversees it all.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Beauty is timeless at Northwest Side all-night hair salonThe phrase, โtimeless beauty,โ takes on a whole new meaning at a Northwest Side hair salon.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Leftovers go to good use, thanks to overnight โfood rescuersโSan Antonio Food Bank accepts donated food from Starbucks, uses it to feed hungry
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Ghost-hunting group takes on haunters inside popular restaurantAfter hearing news that Guillermo's, a popular downtown restaurant, was haunted, Junior Esquivel and his fellow S.A.D.S. members had to investigate.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Workers at popular local restaurant co-exist with โghostsโWhether it's in the middle of a busy workday or after hours, some employees at Guillermo's say they never feel alone inside the popular restaurant, located north of downtown.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: UTSA campus library caters to students who burn the midnight oilEven in the middle of the night the students are not alone there. There's a staff of four librarians and assistants, as well as custodians and a technology expert on duty all night long.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Overnight crew leaves VIA bus stops โnice and cleanโ for morning ridersA bit of dirty work in the middle of the night helps to get the day off to a clean start for thousands of bus riders across the city and beyond.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: CPS Energy worker burns midnight oil to keep repair crews on the roadThe phrase, โpower outage,โ is enough to cause anyone to break out in a sweat, and during summer in San Antonio, that can happen in more ways than one.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Horse-drawn carriage crew stays on move into early morning hoursIf life for Jackie Verna were a fairy tale, sheโd often end up with a pumpkin on her hands at the end of her work shift.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Morning newspapers arrive through all-night shift for local womanDebra Streetman said a typical day on the job for her begins around 10 p.m. and ends before the sun comes up, usually not later than 6 a.m.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Alamo Rangers protect history, answer questions in middle of nightPeople from all around the globe travel to The Alamo each day to see one of Texasโ most historic and sacred sites.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Local gym helps build bodies, rebuild lives around the clockEverything from the barbells to the treadmills were getting a good workout thanks to a steady stream of overnight fitness enthusiasts.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Big spills, no problem for overnight freight handlerWhen his telephone rings in the middle of the night, Leon Hollins knows there's something big waiting for him.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Life as middle-of-the-night taxi driver can be a real tripWhile many people are still counting sheep, Jerry Valdez already has started racking up the miles behind the wheel of his cab.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: The Bexar County jail is a 24-hour operationโThis is 24 hours a day,โ said Sgt. John Paul Garcia, who actually works in a busy section of the jail known as the booking area.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Downtown San Antonioโs sparkle comes from crews working all nightYou may not have noticed them but you definitely have seen their work.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Even when closed overnight, local H-E-B is still busyAccording to the signs on the front doors, the normal business hours at the HEB Plus store, located near Highway 281 and Evans Road begin at 6 a.m. each day.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Not rain, snow, sleet, hail, nor overnight hours can stop the mailU.S. Postal Service workers are known for braving all types of weather to get the mail to homes and businesses.
Morning wakeup call known as โGMSAโ starts with sleepless nights for someKSAT 12 News' โGood Morning San Antonioโ begins streaming into thousands of homes each day before the sun comes up.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Life as a freelance TV news photographer is an all-night affairSix years ago, Ken Branca was up to his ears in music, recording and producing platinum-selling and Grammy-nominated records. Nowadays, it's mostly the sound of police scanners that gets...
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: โHarvest timeโ at produce distributor happens in middle of nightWith a clipboard in hand, Edward Castillo begins rounding up an early morning harvest inside the warehouse of River City Produce.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: TransGuide crew keeps an eye on overnight trafficWhether heโs focusing in on the monitor of his PC, or getting a glimpse through giant HD television screens, Victor Gil always has his eyes on San Antonioโs roads.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Tattoo artist caters to those in need of ink, even overnightInside a storefront, the sound of heavy metal music competed with the buzz from Jason Lozano's tiny metal tattoo needle.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Drivers stop in, fill up all night long at local truck stopThe open road can be a dark, lonely place, especially in the overnight hours.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Crime scene investigators tasked with collecting evidence, even in darkMost people know them by three little letters, C. S. I., but what crime scene investigators do has an impact on hundreds of criminal cases in the city of San Antonio each year.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: Crews working long after โprime timeโ help Amazon deliverWith the click of a mouse on their home computers or the tap of a screen on their mobile phones, people place orders for items online at all times of the day and night.
โWhile You Were Sleepingโ: The San Antonio Zoo is a whole different animal for overnight guardOn this shift, one man gets to see the animals in a different light.
While You Were Sleeping: Keeping motorized scooters charged keeps West Side man up all nightThey almost seem to materialize overnight. Those zippy scooters that youโve probably noticed around town suddenly pop up on what had been empty sidewalks.