Riverside 1870 1940

Author : Steve Lech
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738547169
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riverside, 1870-1940 written by Steve Lech and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thousands of acres of navel orange groves that once blanketed Riverside, California, were one of the most recognizable icons of the states early citrus industry and also the origin for Californias nickname, The Golden State. Founded as a utopian colony in the wake of the Civil War, Riverside soon began to lure wealthy foreign and eastern investors who turned their sights towards Riverside where the perfect combination of sun, soil, and water turned the opportunity of citrus growing into a multimillion-dollar industry. Twenty-five years after Riversides founding, millions of dollars of investments had transformed the small agricultural outpost into the wealthiest city per capita in the nation. The citys Orange Barons invested their money by building stately Victorian mansions and imposing brick commercial buildings. Others lured additional investors by creating parks with tropical plant gardens, formal avenues landscaped with rare and beautiful trees, and a carefully designed downtown area with beautiful churches, hotels, and civic buildings.

Author : Steve Lech
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738546711
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riverside's Mission Inn written by Steve Lech and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the internationally famous Mission Inn Hotel, and its predecessor, has been intertwined with the city of Riverside's history since both began. As the slogan once said, Riverside is a "City with a Mission Inn its Heart." For more than a century, the Mission Inn and its eclectic collections have intrigued visitors, artisans, architects, and dignitaries who have come to Riverside for a myriad of reasons. The Mission Inn, founded by colorful entrepreneur Frank Miller, was integral to the city's turn-of-the-20th-century tourism as wealthy Easterners flocked to Riverside and its famous hotel, lured by a Mediterranean climate, investment opportunities, and vast navel orange groves. Unlike other grand hotels of the time, the Mission Inn, with its Mission style architecture, was a luxury hotel that was uniquely Californian.

Author : Steve Lech
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738529783
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riverside in Vintage Postcards written by Steve Lech and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riverside has been a vital center of agriculture and government throughout the growth of Southern California. Postcards sent from this city to those far away usually depict it as a resort, situated on the western edge of the Colorado Desert, where the historic Mission Inn has been a vacation destination for generations. Illustrating many facets of this world-renowned, garden-like gathering spot, these attractive images also showcase Riverside's Main Street, public buildings, parks, broad avenues, the sharply rising Mt. Rubidoux on the edge of town, and the influence of the citrus industry.

Author : Frank Teurlay
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738559186
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riverside's Camp Anza and Arlanza written by Frank Teurlay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arlanza District of Riverside can trace its origins to Camp Anza, a World War II U.S. Army staging area, which was part of the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation from 1942 to 1946. Here troops spent their last 10 days on U.S. soil before boarding a troop transport ship for the Pacific theater. While in camp, soldiers made final equipment checks and preparations for the possibility of not returning home. To boost morale, Hollywood stars of the day, including Bob Hope and Shirley Temple, performed for the men and women headed into the conflict. At wars end, Camp Anza was a major welcome home point for nearly half a million victorious soldiers returning from the Pacific. Today the neighborhood of Arlanza occupies the site of this once-bustling camp, where remnants of the past still exist and where components for the 21st-century aerospace industry are manufactured.

Author : Steve Lech
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512118711
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along the Old Roads written by Steve Lech and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the settlement and formation of Riverside County, California (Volume 1 of 2)

Author : Glenn Edward Freeman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738570792
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riverside written by Glenn Edward Freeman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riverside is a visual journey showcasing change within a city that has witnessed tremendous growth in its relatively short lifespan. By comparing and contrasting the same building, street, or block several decades apart, this book shows how a dusty landscape east of Los Angeles blossomed into Southern California's sixth-largest city.

Author : Steve Lech
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237832
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Riverside County written by Steve Lech and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riverside County encompasses more than two million people and most of the width of California, from Los Angeles's eastern suburbs to the Arizona state line at the Colorado River. Historian Steve Loch captures the vanished past of this vast swath of deserts and mountains--the eras of Spanish and then Mexican rule and the exploits of the earliest settlers of the American period. Juan Bautista de Anza, Louis Robidoux and many other namesake figures of today's geography are described in this unabridged excerpt of the author's comprehensive and masterly history Along the Old Roads.

Author : Steve Lech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983750000
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than a Place to Pitch a Tent written by Steve Lech and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories behind Riverside County's regional parks.

Author : Roy Weremchuk
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3753476021
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avak Hakobian written by Roy Weremchuk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When conventional medicine fails, reservations about alternative healing methods disappear. This factor led to the young Armenian-Persian faith healer Avak Hakobian being invited to the USA in 1947. His mission: to heal a paralyzed Californian millionaire`s son. Then as now, charismatic healers benefit from the assumption that they have access to a mystical source or transcendent energy. Not a few people entrust such supposed healers with their physical as well as their spiritual well-being. "Avak Hakobian - From Fame to Failure" is the previously untold story of one such healer who for a time made headline news.

Author : Jeremy C. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107114624
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Charisma written by Jeremy C. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century charismatic social movements.