A People’s History of the Inland Empire Digital Archive

Augustin Ruiz, 1979

2022.006.101

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"This photograph shows Augustin Ruiz in 1979 on Cypress Street. In the 1990s, through the efforts of his descendants, Second Street was renamed Ruiz Street in honor of the patriarch, who lived to the age of 104." According to Aurelia Ruiz Reyes, "My grandpa was working, he was here already working in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake in 1906. He went back to Mexico and he brought my dad [Augustin Ruiz] over here to work. My grandpa had some relatives in Yucaipa and they stopped there for, I don't remember, not too long, because they were on their way to San Francisco. They were hitchhiking, and this man gave them a ride up to El Monte. So, the man gave them a job picking walnuts. They made a little money there, so they didn't continue to San Francisco, and they came back to Redlands. They lived... right on the corner of Stuart and Oriental. There's where the, a lot of the Spanish people were, Mexican people were before." (Vasquez and Carpio, 27)

Familial Life

Mexican American History

Mexico

Redlands (Calif.)

1906-1990s

unknown

1979

Inland Mexican Heritage, Courtesy of Helen Cabral

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English

Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012, 27.