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Los Angeles Section Page 433 Route 392
90.3 21.6 Summerland, sta. on left. Straight thru along RR.
92.3 2.0 3-corners; bear left. Cross RR 93.5.
93.7 1.4 Fork; bear left.
95.7 2.0 State St.; meeting trolley, turn right. Cross RR 95.9.
96.6 0.9 SANTA BARBARA, State & Canonperdido Sts., bank on far
left.
GARAGES— El Camino Real Motor Co., Inc., 326 State St.
SERVICE STA.—United States Tire Sales & Service Depots located here.
Route 392—Santa Barbara to Paso Robles, Cal.—141.7 m.
Reverse Route 30.
Via Gaviota pass, Los Alamos, Santa Maria, Arroyo Grande and San Luis Obispo.
First 35 miles concrete, then good graded gravel for 15 miles, concrete balance of way
excepting 4 miles of poor macadam between Los Alamos and Orcutt. Summary: 122
miles concrete; 15 miles good graded gravel; 4 miles poor macadam.
Owing to construction work between Nipomo and Arroyo Grande the Blue Book
car was unable to follow the new highway completely between these two points and as a
result of using the temporary detour some discrepancy in mileage may be encoun-
tered. Tourists reaching Arroyo Grande via the new highway should reset speedometer
to 95.8 at this town in order to obtain readings corresponding with the route matter here
given for balance of trip to Paso Robles.
From Santa Barbara to Gaviota the road follows closely along the ocean shore and a
splendid panorama of mountain and marine scenery is constantly in view. Shortly be-
yond Gaviota the route leads inland and traverses an attractive hilly country, again
MILEAGE— N meeting the sea shore and following same for a short distance near
Distance I^ismo B63>ch
For °P t i°n via Los Olivos see Note (a).
MM eas e^Pofn ts*
0.0 0.0 SANTA BARBARA, State & Canonperdido Sts., bank on left.
Go northwest with trolley on State St.
1.0 1.0 Mission St.; turn left, passing moving picture studios on
right.
(Santa Barbara Points of Interest, Cont’d.)
pointment is believed to' have hastened his gas me fecit ano d. 1818. Mission de Santa
Barbara de la nueva California,” meaning
death. It was not until two years after his
death that Neve’s successor, Fages, author- “Manuel Vargas made me Anno Domini 1818.
Mission of Santa Barbara of New California."
ized Serra’s successor, Padre Lasuen, to es-
Rawhide thongs hold the first bell to its
tablish the mission.
beam; the second is hung by a framework of
In 1803-1807 the mission was at the height bell, which is
iron. Higher up is a modern
of its prosperity, its neophytes then number- rung, the old- bells being only tolled. The
ing 1,792. In 1808 a plague of ground squirrels mission garden is inclosed by the mission
destroyed its harvests. In 1812 the earthquake buildings. No woman may enter here save a
damaged the buildings, opened great fissures reigning sovereign. The only ones of the
in the mountain, formed new springs of as- gentler sex who have ever be^n admitted
phaltum and alarmed the people so that they have been Princess Louise during the time
fled from the buildings and lived in the open her husband was Governor-General of Can-
air. The same year a second alarm was caused ada, and the wife of President Harrison during
by the visit of Bouchard, the pirate, who, her husbands’ term of office. In the center
however, came not to attack, but to trick the of the garden a fountain, the most ornate and
Spaniards out of their prisoners, in which he beautiful in the' whole mission chain, pours
its waters into sculptured bowls where gold-
succeeded.
Santa Barbara was preserved from decay fish play. Near by is a fine Italian cypress
through the influence of a petition presented planted by Bishop Diego in 1842, the year he
to Rome in 1853 requesting that the mission took up his residence here.
be erected into a hospite as the beginning The mission library includes a large num-
of an Apostolic college for the education of ber of valuable old books transferred here for
Franciscan novitiates. This was done, and St. safe keeping by the other missions at the
Anthony’s college, near by, was founded time of the secularization. Here also are kept
through the efforts of Father Peter Wallis the greater part of the old mission records.
check. It is for the education »of those who In this library Bancroft gathered much of
desire to enter the Franciscan order. Five of his data for his history of the California mis-
the early missionaries and three of later date sions, and here lives and works Father Zeph-
are buried in the crypt under the floor in yrin, author of a monumental work on the
front of the high altar of the old mission “Missions and Missionaries of California.”
church, and Bishop Diego rests under the The Franciscans who live here give their
floor at the right of the altar. There is a time and their skilled labor to keeping up this
small cemetery walled in and entered only old mission so rich in beauty and historic
from the church. It is said to contain the association, but the mission has no other in-
bodies of 4,000 Indians and several whites, and come than the funds contributed by the vis-
the vault in which members of the Franciscan itors. That the money thus given is wisely
order are buried. expended is evidenced by the preservation
In the campanile are two old bells with and care shown in the present condition of
identical inscriptions reading: “Manuel Var- the buildings.