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Publication: The Sun
Article Title: Remembering paradise Author: John Weeks Date: 11/04/2008 Can we learn from the past? I think we must believe it is possible, especially during times like these when we elect new leaders and adopt new resolutions. It's true on a national level, and it's true locally, too. On June 16, 1931, a visitor to California wrote home to West Medford, Mass., and reported, "This is a great place. It's all they say it is and I would just as soon stay here to live." The writer of this postcard note was referring to San Bernardino. The picture on the reverse side shows the pepper trees in Pioneer Park in the city's downtown. It's a scene still viewable today. Earlier that same year, on March 4, 1931, another visitor to California wrote home to Providence, Rhode Island: "This certainly is God's Country. Beautiful Air and Sunshine and Wonderful Scenery and Drives." This writer was describing Riverside. The postcard image on the reverse shows Mount Rubidoux thronged with people during Easter sunrise services. It's a scene repeated each year to this day. There's no doubt that the Inland Empire once enjoyed great fame as one of the most desirable places on Earth. In collecting local postcards over the course of many years, I am intermittantly reminded of the fact. But it was while browsing through my entire collection of postcards, and compiling the best of them into book form, that the point hit me with full force. The Inland Empire truly was an earthly paradise. The success of early-day citrus growers and wine growers made news from coast to coast. Tourists flocked here. The new railroads made haste to lay track to bring them here more quickly, and in greater numbers. New cities sprang up around the new rail stations, and those cities thrived. Stately neighborhoods were linked by wide, palm-lined boulevards. The rich and famous families of the East ventured West to investigate this new, fabled land. Many of them built winter homes here. Some built permanent homes and stayed here. Great schools were built in Redlands, Loma Linda, Claremont and Riverside to accommodate the children of these families. Fabulous resorts were built to entertain the new masses of residents and visitors here. The Mission Inn in Riverside, the Norconian Resort Supreme in what is now Norco, and the Arrowhead Springs Hotel in San Bernardino were a few of these. Even new religious movements chose this place as an ideal place to establish centers for spiritual growth and outreach. The Mormons settled here, as did the Seventh-day Adventists, the Pentacostals, Campus Crusade for Christ and others. We know all this to be true. The evidence is in the images, the postcards that were sent around the nation, around the world, at that time. I believe that these old postcards not only can tell us about our past, but about our future. Yes, we have yielded most of our orchards and vineyards to urban sprawl. Many of our once-stately communities have been battered by bad decisions, bad luck, and the vagaries of time and economy. But I believe that any place that once was idyllic can be idyllic again. The process starts with taking stock of our past, taking pride in it, and preserving with honor its artifacts and memories. Fully informed and fully appreciative of our past, we can forsake the ghosts of self-doubt, self-pity and self-loathing that sometimes have held us back, and we can go forward into the future with new confidence, new purpose, new resolve to rebuild our earthly paradise again. I will say more on this subject at Thursday's meeting of the San Bernardino Historical and Pioneer Society. After my talk I'll sign copies of my book, "Inland Empire" (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99). The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Christian R. Harris Memorial Hall, on the corner of Eighth and D streets in downtown San Bernardino.Southern California's vast Inland Empire is one of the fastest growing regions of the United States. It is a wonderland of old-growth vineyards, citrus groves, hot-water resorts, Wild West landmarks, and Native American territories. America's fabled Mother Road, Route 66, runs right through it. Its fertile valleys are encircled by mountains with famous resort areas such as Idyllwild, Big Bear Lake, and Lake Arrowhead. Those mountains are surrounded in turn by some of the world's best-known desert resort and recreational areas, including Palm Springs, the Mojave, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree National Park. Inland Empire is the first book of its kind, offering a postcard-perfect grand tour of the entire region.
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