Rancho Aguaje De La Centinela

of the Ranchos. April 4, 1845. Ingle were traded for two barrels of brandy. November 16, 1860. Scotch nobleman buys Rancho's hinternilla. May 23, 1941. Celebrity is a strong opener at Hollywood Park. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angles presents the romance of the ranchos, dramatizing the thrilling adventure which

signalized the growth of Southern California from the days of the dawns to the present. Each week our wandering Viqueiro Frank Graham uncovers another tale of the early days of the Southland recreated from the pages of history. It is the business of the title Insurance and Trust Company to know the facts about land ownership in Southern California and believe me that means a lot of facts to

know when you consider that the early-day ronchos, comprising what is now Los Angles County, have been split up into more than a million and a half separate parcels of assessed real estate. That means thousands and thousands of changes of ownership of these parcels through the years. Keeping track of all these and of the milestones and the lives of the merids of owners, deaths,

wills, divorces, deeds, mortgages, foreclosures, judgments, and so on is the big job of the title insurance and trust company. It's a job that never ends in one that gets harder rather than easier as time goes on.

Our story tonight, however, presents the romantic and adventurous background of all this activity, and it's one of the most interesting of the series. And here is our wandering Vaquero Frank Graham to tell the story.

We must notice Esenioris. Our story tonight deals with the land we know as the modern cities of Inglewood, Hawthorne, El Segundo, and Redondo, Hermosa, and Manhattan beaches, steeped in the romance of the ranches, Through time our story takes us from the Hollywood Park of today to another kind of horse race which took place in the year 1822.