EL BARBARENO
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2011-04-09 09:28 AM |
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Excellent - keep up the good walk!
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PIERHEAD
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2011-04-09 09:42 AM |
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Thanks for the memories! I grew up in that neighborhood in the 50's and remember fondily the Rutherfords. Every Haloween the 'Colonel' served cookies and chilled cider for the trick or treaters.
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COMMENT 162512
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2011-04-09 09:55 AM |
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Love this feature, but there may be an error. I think Franklin School is also named for a non-president.
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AUNTIE S.
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2011-04-09 12:54 PM |
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This took me back to when I first moved here with my parents in 1948. We lived in the "last house" on San Roque Rd. - 3 houses up from Foothill Rd. At that time the street did not go through and there was only a cyclone fence and empty fields on the other side of our house. There was a little trail going into the field up to a house where an old Armenian gentleman lived but I never saw him - he was sort of a mystery. As for the story of San Rocco, I was amazed to hear the exact same one in the little town of Intra on Lake Maggiore when I visited Italy a couple of years ago.
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COMMENT 162558
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2011-04-09 02:24 PM |
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San Roque School is also where Donald Patrick Roemer, a Catholic priest, molested children for years. Nice neighborhood, but some dirty secrets lurking there.
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MTNDRIVER
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2011-04-09 02:40 PM |
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One of the great neighborhoods of SB. Growing up in the 50s and 60s most of my friends lived in San Roque--one on Argonne Circle. I think that friend coincidentally now lives in one of the houses you posted photos of, not having moved far from her childhood home. Also have friends who lived in the house with the curvy cottage roof in the first photo for a few years in the mid-90's. San Roque School is no longer a parochial school, of course. Owned by the Sperling family of University of Phoenix fame--son (and family) of the founder of U. of P. Same folks who bought St. Anthony's and sent the SB Middle School off to find a new home. Very deep pockets.
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COMMENT 162573
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2011-04-09 04:17 PM |
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My 'hood - love the info. Thanks!
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COMMENT 162579
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2011-04-09 04:40 PM |
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Thank you for this series. I am really enjoying your posts and learning new things about Santa Babara each time.
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COMMENT 162609P
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2011-04-10 05:54 AM |
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Is it true that with the initial home sales of the San Roque development, African Americans were not allowed to purchase homes there? I think I read this in a Barney B. story.
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RONNIEB
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2011-04-10 06:06 AM |
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Wonderful memories! I attended San Roque School 1945 -1952 and lived in San Roque on Los Pinos. Freedom was my first bike at age 8. Before school we would hang out in the alley that parallels State Street and time our school arrival five minutes before Mass ended, upsetting the nuns-one of our main purposes in life. My parents built the Northside Laundromat & Cleaners at 3040 State Street. It was only a nickel to play the pinball machine in the waiting room. We'd help ourselves to the delicious apricots, peaches, figs and citrus that grew everywhere. At one point there had been walnut orchards in the area. The San Roque nuns used to make the kids whose parents couldn't afford tuition pick walnuts, which stained their hands.
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TWOBITS
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2011-04-10 08:03 AM |
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Call noguera=walnut street
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COMMENT 162625
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2011-04-10 08:08 AM |
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Not to disparage the 'hood, but when we bought our house in 1997, we found out that Rutherford included some now-illegal racist deed restrictions. It's a hyper-friendly 'hood now, but back then... Let's continue trying to do better. So far, so good!
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FLICKA
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2011-04-10 10:19 AM |
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It's been historically written that the 1st motel (in the U.S.) was the one at the bottom of the Cuesta Grade, in San Luis Obispo. It's a mission style structure. In the days of Model T's girls in peasant outfits wearing caballro hats passed out menus to passing cars which were crawling along for the Cuesta climb.
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PATRICK
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2011-04-10 11:14 AM |
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We live on the Westside and were surprised to read the 1928 racist deed restriction when we bought our house in 2002. I think that was par for the course in most developments during that time period. By the way, I too had heard that the oldest motel was in SLO. I just googled it and a site said it was built in 1925. Not sure who is right, but I guess it was within 100 miles of here for sure. http://www.beachcalifornia.com/1stmotel.html Thanks for another great article.
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SEEDLADY
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2011-04-10 11:32 AM |
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Is it possible that's a Cedrus Deodara in the photo, not a Sequoia? Maybe there's a Sequoia elsewhere on the property? San Luis Obispo's The Motel Inn (Orginially the 'Mo-Tel Inn', short for for 'Motor Hotel') was built in 1925 for $800,000 according to Wikipedia. That's quite a chunk for those days. It was the first of a new chain of overnight accommodations meant to cater to motorists.Back then it took a full day's driving to get from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo, then another full day to Los Angeles. At the base of the Cuesta Grade, the Motel Inn offered in-room bathing in separate cottages, a supposed first. Evidently the model was much copied and the owner/builders were never able to copyright the term Motel. Their chain of Mo-Tels never got off the ground. Does anyone have info on the build date of the San Roque motel? Neil?
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STACE
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2011-04-10 01:17 PM |
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Urban Hiker, here. I have a photo of the San Roque Motor Camp from 1923, that I will submit to Edhat. The place we mentioned in our article, however, was called the Mountain View Auto Court. We found both the photo mentioned above and information about the Mountain View Auto Court in Walker A. Tompkins Neighborhood Series 1, San Roque. In the booklet, Mr. Tompkins reports that the Mountain View Auto Court was the "first motel" in California, having been opened "around 1920". As the caption under the San Roque Motor Camp photo indicates, it's a picture of the "motel" in 1923; my guess is that it opened a few blocks north of the Mountain View Auto Court a year or two (or three) after Mountain View was in operation. So I think San Roque still has SLO beat, considering that one could either pitch a tent or let a cabin for the night. In other words, it wasn't simply a campsite, but also offered the services of a true motel. 
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COMMENT 162701
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2011-04-10 03:58 PM |
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The racist restrictions were very common in real estate development. They were called restrictive covenants, and Wikipedia has a good explanation. I did my thesis on 1910 subdivisions in Oakland which did and did not restrict "persons of African or Mongolian descent." Racist covenants were made illegal by the Supreme Court in 1948, though plenty of restrictive covenants remain in condos and PUDs, such as, no clotheslines, only certain colors of exterior paint, etc. Seedlady, I am certain those big conifers on Calle Palo Colorado are not redwoods. Gorgeous trees though! You can tell they have been there a long time and really shape the ambience of the street.
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COMMENT 162735
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2011-04-10 08:03 PM |
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There were other auto courts before the one in SLO, but they were the first to use the term Motel. Thus they are the first , having coined the term.
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COMMENT 198556
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2011-07-31 12:56 AM |
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Racist covenants were indeed par for the course--our old neighborhood in Northern California had the same thing. They may actually remain in original documents...they are now illegal, but still must be disclosed as part of the title history of properties.
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