Rancho San Antonio and Don Antonio Maria Lugo

The Romance of the Ranchos. Los Angeles 1850. College bounded at Lugo Townhouse. Bell 1856. Cattleboom brings sudden wealth to Rancho's. Bell 1927. Firestone, Tyre and Rubber Company builds huge plants. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles presents the Romance of the Ranchos.

A weekly dramatization of the historic events which formed the colorful background for our southern California of today. Each week our wandering Vekaro Frank Graham narrates another fascinating chapter of romance and adventure. And tonight's story is indeed a fascinating one.

Because of the fact that it deals with the land on which are now located, the communities of Bell, Huntington Park, Vernon, Walnut Park, Southgate, Linwood and East Los Angles, we extend a special greeting to the residents of those communities.

But the story is so exciting and romantic, and it had such an important bearing on the development of the entire Southland that it will be of equal interest to all of you listening wherever you live.

Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angles is happy to present it for your enjoyment. And here is our wandering Viquero Frank Graham to spin the story. When us no chests in your eyes, you sit in your eyes.

Tonight our magic carpet of radio takes us back through the years to visit one of the greatest of the Ranchos, one of the most aristocratic of the Dones. The Rancho San Antonio of Don Antonio Mario Lugo. It is a story steeped in the romance of the Ranchos. The story of the illustrious family of the Lugos starts in 1769. When, among the first Spanish settlers to come

to California, Jose Mario Lugo landed and settled at Santa Barbara. A few years later, in 1775, A son was born, a son who has become one of the patriarchs of California, Don Antonio Marialugo. Like most other Spanish gentlemen of his generation, he served as a soldier in the armies of the King of Spain, and in that capacity he came to Los Angeles in 183.