Santa Barbara in Vintage Postcards
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Marlin L. Heckman
Collected and interpreted by Marlin L. Heckman, the images in this informative volume provide readers with a delightful trip down memory lane, bringing an important period of the area�s history to life for visitors and members of the younger generation.
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Santa Barbara in Vintage Postcards - Marlin L. Heckman
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INTRODUCTION
The area known today as Santa Barbara is a south-facing crescent of land between the Santa Ynez mountains and the Pacific Ocean, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles. It has been a favored spot for more than 300 years. A writer in Harper’s Weekly gave the following description: Santa Barbara, looking from the sea, presents a picture wherein ocean, mountains, fields and flower-bordered pathways are beautifully commingled…As the eye sweeps over it all, one feels that nature has designed here a spot where perfection is closely approached, and had then raised a barrier of mountains as if to afford protection from the disturbing contact of the other world.
[Harper’s Weekly, 48 (April 2, 1904): 508.]
The Cumash Indians called this area home for 200 years before the Portuguese navigator, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, discovered the Channel Islands off the coast in 1542. A century later, in 1642, the land was named in honor of Santa Barbara on her feast day, December 4th. In 1786 Spanish Franciscans, led by Father Junipero Serra, chose Santa Barbara as the site for the tenth of the Spanish missions to be established along the California coast. Known as the Queen of the Missions,
Mission Santa Barbara was established on December 4, 1786. The present church was built in 1820, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1925, and restored again in 1953. It is the only mission with two towers. The Moorish fountain in front of the mission was built in 1808. A garden of more than 1000 roses grows in front of the fountain.
After years under the Spanish crown, Santa Barbara became the territory of Mexico. The area was claimed for the United States by General John C. Fremont in 1846. This brought an end to the Mexican period, and Santa Barbara became an American city on April 5, 1850.
In1887 Santa Barbara streets were lit with electricity, and the first phone company had been established. Describing an earlier trip to Santa Barbara, Edward Roberts wrote the following in 1887: There are two ways of reaching Santa Barbara from Los Angeles. One may go by boat up the coast or by train to Newhall, and from there overland by stage, which makes daily trips to and from Santa Barbara.
[Harpers Magazine 75 (November, 1887): 814.]
The train was extended from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara in 1887 and on to San Francisco in 1901. By 1904 a writer in Harpers Weekly could say, Four trains daily each way bring Santa Barbara into direct touch both with San Francisco and with Los Angeles. This fact has developed Santa Barbara a new feature, as she is rapidly becoming the Mecca for visitors from her own as well as from other states.
[Harpers Weekly 48 (April 2, 1904): 504.]
Santa Barbara’s weather has always drawn visitors, especially those from colder climates.Writing in Country Life in 1920, Charles Cushing said, "How ever earnestly one might desire to be original, it is almost