Rancho Rodeo De Las Aguas

The Romance of the Ranchos Beverly Hills 1852 Indians the siege widow at Rancho Beverly Hills 1919 Douglas Fairbanks by his hilltop land for home Beverly Hills 1941 Beverly Hills one of the world's wealthiest cities The title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles presents the romance of the Ranchos dramatizing the romance and adventure of the history of our Southland.

Each week our wandering Viqueiro Frank Graham uncovers another fascinating story of events and people that make up the romance of the Ranchers. The interesting historical facts which form the background for our drama tonight were obtained from the vast files of the title insurance and trust company of Los Angles.

And those files are growing at the rate of approximately 1,500 documents every business day. For the essential facts affecting land ownership must be gathered from these recordings and from the records of some fifty different public offices and transferred to the title insurance company Records Daily in order that the company can ensure your ownership of property against

any other's claims. However, it is from the older records that the facts forming the basis of these radio stories are taken. And here is our wandering Vaquero Frank Grant. Winas no chis señoras y señoras.

Our story tonight deals with the part of the Southland we know as Beverly Hills, but which was once the Rancho Rodéo de Los Alwas, or the gathering place of the waters. Let's relive the romance of this Rancho.

It was about the time of the end of Spanish control of California, 1821, that Maria Rita Valdes and her soldier husband came to live on the Rancho Rodéo de Los Alwas. They built a home near the present vocation of sunset and alpine in Beverly Hills.