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By Joe Delise
Mission Motors. Below is the original from the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.
Next up: A Man, A Mission and his Mules.
Original photo courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum.
Local historian Neal Graffy states the gentleman in the photo is Matias Reyes. He was a wood cutter and lived in Mission Canyon where he owned over 10 acres. The photo was taken between 1883 and the summer of 1886.
