Concepcion (Concha) Romero at Fairbanks Ranch, 1960

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Title

Concepcion (Concha) Romero at Fairbanks Ranch, 1960

Identifier

2022.006.025

Type

image

Description

Color photograph of Concepcion (Concha) Romero standing in front of the orange groves at Fairbanks Ranch. Concepcion Romero was an active member of the Divine Savior Church and was an entreprenuer. She ran restuarants and made tamales and tortillas. Her daughter Eunice Romero (Gonzales) noted, "My mother had a restaurant right here on Colton Avenue, on Lawton and Colton. There was a gas station and then a little restaurant up on old Third Street, and then her final restaurant was on Stuart and Third Street, and they were all Romero restaurants."

Subject

Citrus Fruit Industry
Family History
Business
Fairbanks Ranch
Restaurant

Spatial Coverage

San Diego (Calif.)
Fairbanks Ranch

Temporal Coverage

1960

Creator

unknown

Date

1960s

Contributor

Inland Mexican Heritage

Format

.tif

Language

English

Rights

Copyright Undetermined

Bibliographic Citation

Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.

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Harris Dalhberg, Ben Romero, Frank Romero at Fairbanks Ranch, late 1950s Image