Author: Southern California Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781527723627

Excerpt from Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles, 1900 If a person walking down Broadway or Spring street, at the present day, could turn Time backward in his flight fifty years, how strange the contrast would seem. Where now stand blocks of stately buildings, whose windows are aglow with all the beauties of modern art, instead there would be two or three streets whose business centered in a few tiendas, or stores, decorated with strings of chilis or jerked beef; The one window of each tienda was barred with iron, the tiendero sitting in the doorway to pro teet his wares, or to watch: for customers. Where red and yellow brick buildings hold their heads proudly to the heavens'rnow, fifty years ago the soft hills slid down to the back doors of the adobe dwelling and offered their wealth of flowers and wild herbs to the botanist. Sidewalks were unknown, pedestrians marched single file in the middle of the street, in winter to enjoy the sunshine, in summer to escape the trickling tears of brea which, dropping from the roofs, branded their linen or clogged their footsteps Now where the policeman' 'wends his weary way, the vaquero, with his lively cuidado (lookout) lassoed his. Wild steer, and dragging him to the mantanza at the rear of his dwelling, Offered him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.