Montebello High School - Golden Key Yearbook (Montebello, CA)

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THE STAFF MESSAGE . HERE are many Southern California communities which are , larger and have more advantages than Montebello, but few 0 have a more romantic background. 5 Gazing down the wide boulevard which leads through fx the city, we cannot help recalling that only a few decades ago this place was a broad mesa with only a few scattered -' 5' homes. A trip to Los Angeles, which now takes about t I twenty-five minutes, then required a ' day's journey. The life here was the simple life of the early Californian: one of toil, together with pleasure and gaiety. The scene of many Spanish fiestas was the home of Don Pio Pico, last of the Spanish governors. Part of the old mansion still re- mains, only a short distance from our school. There are also Scott's adobe and the Repetto ranch which recall the days of early California, An attraction which brought American settlers to Montebello was the discovery of oil. However, this interest gradually lessened, and Montebello became known as the City of Flowers. Indeed, the city is noted not only for its quantity of flowers, but for its beautiful and rare ones. It was the Los Angeles rose, originated by the Howard and Smith nursery of Monte- bello, that won the grand prize at the Paris rose show. It is our city, with its romantic, picturesque back- ground, that has made it possible for us to carry out the theme of this Golden Key , The Romance of Montebello . Page Eight

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This picturesque adobe on the Scott ranch has passed through many decades of our changing and romantic history. It looks out from under its ancient pepper trees across thousands of acres, once the ranchos of Don Iuan Mateo Sanchez. The center of a ranch community life now gone forever, the old house, standing empty and alone, still echoes the music of guitars and the gay laughter of the light-hearted Californians.