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Thein Durning, Alan; Bauman, YoramMareMagnum

Tax Shift : How to Help the Economy, Improve the Environment, and Get the Tax Man off Our Backs (New Report, No. 7)

The Southern Pacific RailroadBiblio.com

Santa Barbara Beach—On Road of a Thousand Wonders—On Line Southern Pacific

7626San Francisco ca. 1905. 20â€ x 24â€ in original oak frame with a title plaque 25.5â€ x 29.5â€ overall. Frame manufacturer label of â€œSanborn Vail & Co.â€ of San Francisco on verso. Stamp on verso of â€œGrover C. Drake District Passenger Agent 937 State Street Santa Barbara California.â€ CONDITION: Some very small losses at edge of image in lower left corner very good overall. A large and very appealing advertising photograph of Santa Barbara Beach and vicinity issued by the Southern Pacific Railway. This turn of the century photo likely taken on the weekend captures the lively scene at Plaza Del Mar built in the 1890s showing men women and children sitting on benches or strolling about. Many of the women wear white dresses and hats and a few hold parasols. Several boys in bathing suits sit in the sand in the lower right foreground. Los BaÃ±os del Mar opened 1901 shown here with picnic tables on the roof appears just to the left of the crowd. At center-left a Japanese tea garden and a sign identifying it as such can be seen on the roof of a building and to its right is a storefront with a sign reading â€œBoulevard Card Store.â€ Cabrillo Boulevard with its palm tree-lined promenade stretches along the beach at center right. Hotel Potter appears in the distance on the left and foothills and mountains loom in the background. The phrase â€œRoad of a Thousand Wondersâ€ which is included in the photoâ€™s title was used by the Southern Pacific Co. from the 1900s to at least the 1920s. One of the great American railroad systems the Southern Pacific was established by the â€œbig fourâ€ of western railroad building: Collis Huntington Leland Stanford Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker. After completing the Central Pacific line from California to Utah in 1869 the four partners started the Southern Pacific as a branch line into southern California. It was incorporated in 1884 and the railroads making up the Central Pacific system were leased to the Southern Pacific Co. the following year. The Southern Pacific system grew to serve fifteen states in the West and Southwest with lines reaching the Pacific and Gulf coasts. A striking image of the Santa Barbara Beach scene produced by the Southern Pacific Railroad. REFERENCES: Southern Pacific Railroad at Britannica online. [San Francisco?, ca. 1905.] unknown

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