Aviation High School - Talon Yearbook (Redondo Beach, CA)

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t eon § p - aMallona ieneqac ' Paso de Westetfi Influences America ' s westward movement was the epic of the men and women who were melted in a caldron from which the rugged settler was poured. They wove a saga, the telling of which grows more fas- cinating and enthralling with each repetition. The West has become a dramatic romance of many- discords: of man against untamed beasts; of man against the force of a majestic land, of man against man. The reasons for this sudden surge to the West are numerous. After the Mexican War, a depres- sion seized the Eastern seaboard, causing despair. The hope for a better existence was foremost in everyone ' s mind. Ad ertisements extolled the West as the land of milk and honey. All types of people were beckoned by this land of plenty. The first to enture forth were those who had no ties in the East. Next braved the re- ligious people who could find no peace from the persecution of their faith. The immigrant farmers followed, seeking a land of their own, a land fer- tile and waiting for a spade to crack its surface. Even today influences of those determined peo- ple can be seen and felt. Architecture reflects this influence in the buildings of Spanish and ranch- type houses and businesses. Streets and towns carry the names they were christened with when California was still a babe in arms. Distinct progress has also been made in trans- portation since the time of the stagecoach ; educa- tion since the time of the little red school house, and space expansion since the time of that fnst itch to move West. True, some of the ' estern settlers returned to their homes with fortunes; others remained in San Francisco to grow rich with the young, growmg city; but others left their bones and their dreams in the desert, in the blizzards of the high mountain passes, in the jungles of Panama or in the mmmg camps. Often their end remained forexer a mys- tery to the families they left behind.