Transportation--From Oxcart To Airliner

The Romance of the Rancio The X-Hangliss 1805 First American sailing ship touches with harvest The X-Hangliss 1857 First Overland Fade derives in cities The X-Hangliss 1876 First Transcontinental Railroad completed The title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles presents the romance of the ranchers, a weekly dramatization of the highlights of history of our Southern California.

Each week, our wandering Vocaro Frank Graham returns to bring us another true story of events of the early Southland. Sugar rationing, price ceilings, wage stabilization and other governmental programs are only our first tastes of a good many more war measures to come, and don't believe anyone who tells you that they aren't vitally necessary.

The best-informed and most impartial observers are surest, that the needs behind these steps are genuine and urgent. Just as is the need for the money provided to our purchases of war bonds and stamps. Title Insurance and Trust Company urges you to invest in these securities as extensively as you can, and to cooperate to the fullest in all conservation measures, present and future.

And now here to tell us the story is our wandering Viquero, Frank Graham. We are not just in Yores, but in Yores. Tonight our story traces the fascinating history of travel and transportation around Los Angeles.

A history full of romance and drama, from ox cart to the modern airliner. It's a story of progress full of the romance of the ranches. A man who first discovered Alpha California, one would freak Escabrio, sailed north from Mexico in 1542 in a small sailing boat, not even large enough to have a deck.

Two hundred years later, the next flight man came north to California, Captain Gaspar de Portola, and his small party of soldiers. They rode on horseback and were known as the leather jackets because of the heavy coat which served as their armor.