El Pueblo de Nuestra Seora la Reina de los Angeles

The Romance of the Ranchos. Los Angles 1822, American Bill's first church. Los Angles 1845, web-low named capital of California. Los Angles 1887, greatest land boom of history reaches peak. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angles presents the Romance of the Ranchos, a weekly dramatization of the highlights from the colorful history of our Southland.

Each week our wandering Vocaro Frank Graham returns to tell another true story of the early days of Southern California. In a matter of months, we Americans must equip ourselves to conquer enemies who have been arming themselves for years.

We can do this through our purchases of war savings, bonds, and stamps. This money will come back to us later with substantial interest, so it's an investment in our own financial future as well as in democracy.

But the need now is urgent. So buy a war savings bond tomorrow. Now here to tell us the story is our wandering for Carol Frank Graham. Why not no chase, cignores? He's cignores.

Tonight, we're going to recreate some of the highlights from the growth of the world's newest metropolis, the fastest growing large city of the world. A city which was until 65 years ago, a sleepy, backward village.

Yes, I mean our own city of Los Angles. Let's go back through the years and watch the Pueblo grow into one of the first cities of America. It's a story filled with the romance of the ranchers.

The first white men to set foot on the site of Los Angles were of the party of Gaspar de Portoula, who was sent from Mexico to explore the possibilities of colonizing Alta, California. When they arrived in the banks of the Los Angles River, they found an Indian village called Yangna, situated near the present North Broadway viaduct.