Way Back When: No Fireworks for July 4

As you might expect, we had enough excitement from the earthquake on June 29, so folks wanted to take it easy for Independence Day in 1925.

“Simple Rites to Mark July 4 … Today Santa Barbara residents will celebrate … without noise, without display, but with a simple, reverent service in Alameda Park.”

The editor of the local paper added, “We have many things to be grateful for today, but the greatest of these is the fact that we live in the grandest country in the world, in the best city, filled with a citizenship of the highest type that knows how to meet an emergency …

Hurrah for the Fourth!

Hurrah for Santa Barbara!

Hurrah for the manner in which its citizenship has met a crisis.

Hurrah for the future!”

– Santa Barbara Morning Press, July 4, 1925