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Rancho San Rafael

Romance of the Ranchos · September 7, 1941 · 28 min · 4,091 words

The transcript of “Rancho San Rafael”, an episode of Romance of the Ranchos first broadcast September 7, 1941. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Romance of the Ranchos plays Romance of the Ranchos free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Glendale Tower to Pan American Trips 7. Wind East 7. Altimeter setting 29.92. You're clear to land on runway number two. The shores of an airplane are elementary. When you push the stick forward, the nose drops.

When you pull the stick back, the nose comes up. How could you attend? Huh? At the door? Archibald! Ah, ah, ah! Wings for defense. Wings for commerce. The symbol of our world of today, September 7, 1941.

It's a methodically contradictory world of streamline speed and heartbreaking strife of achievement and destructive war. But the symbol for both war and achievement is the airplane. And the airplane is also a symbol for the great modern city of Glendale, California, one of the aviation centers for the globe circling airlines, for training flyers for the army and navy, for Canada and the RAF.

Yet only a hundred years ago, This great area of factories and homes was undreamed on. Where flintridge, eagle rock, Highland Park, Occidental College, Garvansa now lie, the lofty mountains stood silent sentinel over vast solitude of waving grain fields and pasture lands.

It was the Rancho Sangra fell. Let's go back through the years and relive the romance of the Ranchos. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angles presents the romance of the Ranchos, dramatizing the romance and adventure connected with the growth of this great state.

Each week at this time our wandering Viqueiro Frank Graham uncovers another fascinating story of events and people who built the land we know today as Southern California. And here is our wandering Viqueiro Frank Graham.

We're not just saying you're a season your is our story tonight is one I know you will enjoy selected from the vast files of the title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles. You see it's the business of this company to know the history of our Southland. Yes, the vast historical files of this company of necessity contain detailed records

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