Rancho La Ballona

The Romance of the Ranchos. Over City 1839. Padre's protest grant of land, Goroncheros. By Atelre 1887, Seaside Resort to become Great Harbor. Venice 1904. Great Seaside Resort copies after European City. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angles presents the romance of the ranchos, a weekly dramatization of the romantic and colorful past that created our southern California

of today. Each week, our wandering Vocaro Frank Graham returns with a fascinating true story of the days of the dawn. Day before yesterday, several million more American citizens citizens completed their registration for service with our armed forces. Many of them will be called to active duty. Many may actually lay down their lives in the service of our

country. Most of us will not have to make that supreme sacrifice, but all of us are in this war and all of us are in the service. And one service that we can all render is to help finance the country's war effort, to help provide the weapons so desperately needed by those fellow citizens of ours who will do the actual fighting.

Our dimes and dollars invested in defense bonds and stamps are the weapons most of us must use, use them often and regularly, by defense bonds and stamps. Now here is our wandering Viquero Frank Graham to tell us the story.

Buenas no tres señores, y señores. Tonight our wanderings take us to the Rancho La Balona, the great valley stretching from the Baldwin Hills to play Adel Ray on the south and through Pico Boulevard on the north, and containing the thriving communities of play Adel Ray, Culver City, Palms, Barn City, Ocean Park, Venice, and part of Santa Monica. It's a story that covers over a hundred years and