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In article <slrng8f3v2.6oc.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<-omdnVPuWewRBhvVnZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:
<snip>
Yeah, I did some serious growing up along the Camino Real in CA -
Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Diego. Got the Fra Junipero Serra
story every school year from 1st-7th grades, at least.

My wife is native Californian - born in Santa Barbara, and later lived
in San Francisco. She got it too, and gave it to me on a regular basis.

Ever see the statue in the rest area on I-280 just North of CA-92 in
Hillsbourough? It's fairly close to the spot were they discovered the
bay. The statue portrays him down on one knee with the arm
out-stretched and pointing - you know "Look at that!!!" Only thing
wrong is that it's facing the wrong direction (West rather than East)
and the thing he's pointing at is Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir - the
location of the San Andreas fault. Usually good for a laugh when you
are driving tourist relatives around showing them the sights.

Nope, can't say as I have. But my years in CA were pre-Interstate;
US 99 and 101 were _the_ N-S corridors, Cal 1 what you took for
scenic.

We've had something of a brouhaha locally over a program to
memorialize important people and events in the city's history.
City commissioned an equestrian statue of Don Juan de Onate, who
was the leader of the first expedition to explore and colonize the
area north of the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande to us gringos). Onate was
a typical Spanish Conquistador and, politely, brutalized the
Indians both locally and up around Albuquerque. So, long story
much less long, statue was finished, PC groups protested, city
backed down, renamed the statue "The Equestrian" and more-or-less
hid it near the local airport. Was finally installed/unveiled
about 2.5 years after it was completed and delivered. What
neither the city council nor the protesters understand is that
you can't change history by denying it.


From the non-Hispanic names (never mind the railroad), that would have
to be after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Actually, no. The original El Paso was renamed Ciudad Juarez in
commemoration of Benito Juarez back in the 1880s or so - I'm not
firm on the date - and the folks in what was then Franklin decided
they'd appropriate the name El Paso for their growing town.

In a way, that does surprise me. About when was Franklin formed and
named?

Seems to me that the city was incorporated in the 1870s as El Paso -
which naturally caused a helluva lot of confusion. Before that it
was Franklin, from about 1850 or so. As noted, the original El
Paso became Cd. Juarez in the late 1880s, so the confusion didn't
last.

El Paso has been the site of Fort Bliss since the 1850/60 period,
as well, the post having had several locations over that time. It
was originally down along the river as a cavalry post. As the times
changed, so did its mission, tho' it was the staging area for
Pershing's expedition into Mexico.

Swell Ol' Bob

--
Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
-----
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable
reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford

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