Ahhh, Glendora… Garden spot of the Southland.
Well maybe not nowadays, but 119 years ago, the Los Angeles Times reported that “you can scarcely find a livelier place” in all Southern California…
“There are no loungers around the postoffice and stores. It is almost out of the question to get a man if you want one for extra work. Whitcomb Bros. & Co. are employing a large force of women, boys and [Chinese] to pick peas. They have shipped 10 tons of peas already… Every house in town is occupied and almost every room.”
Meantime, the neighborhood citrus crop was bustling too, a fact that seems to have thrilled the Times’ Glendora correspondent to no end:
“Our orange trees are a mass of bloom. The air is heavy with their perfume, and they are a ‘thing of beauty and a joy’ if not forever, for a long time.”
Yep. That’s what passed for a happenin’ SoCal scene in the late 1800s.
Source:
“Gladsome Glendora”
Los Angeles Times
April 13, 1890
