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

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ADMINISTRATION UP FROM THE JUNGLE 'f HE ROMANCE OF MONTEBELLO-that, we are told, 7 ' . is the motive of this, the fifth volume of the uGolden Key . M f Turn for a moment to sketches of old adobe mansions and X Spanish vaqueros submitted by members of the art class, f . . . . . . A and you will be convinced that our beautiful little city is 1 . the child of a romantic past. ' , 'I Without any doubt, it was oil that made the present Z Montebello, Floraculture, together with more or less diver- sified agriculture, has helped. The clay deposits of South Montebello from which millions of bricks are annually made has also played a part. - But prior to all this Montebello has had an exceedingly interesting history. Ask Miss Cox to show you the petrified clam shells picked up by biology students in the Repetto hills just north of the city. That means that these hills were once an old shore line, a barrier through which the San Gabriel river cut a channel to empty its flood waters into a great inland bay, building up with silt and clay the very ground on which your school now stands. Then, huge elephants or mammoths roamed through the tropical jungles that covered the hills and valleys of the surrounding country. These in turn were preyed upon by the ferocious saber-toothed tiger. If you doubt this, go to the museum at Exposition Park and see the skeletons of these animals exhumed from deposits Within an hour's ride of Montebello. Such has been the history of your city. Once the bottom of the sea, then the jungle, then the deposits of clay for bricks and soil for flowers. Then Page Sixteen