A People’s History of the Inland Empire Digital Archive

Epimenio Guzman at a Blacksmith Shop

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Epimenio Guzman is pictured on the left at a blacksmith shop in this image from the early 1900s. Rita Radeleff, in an excerpt from her unpublished autobiography fondly remembered her uncle "Goose," who ran the shop on Stuard Ave. She wote "Goose would produce a nondescript piece of metal and heat it in the fire until it was fashioned into a shoe for the horse, which was waiting so patiently to be shod. Oh, how the veins on his arms and massive hands would pop out, I thought that they were going to burst! He would talk to the horse making it stand so still as he fit the shoe to the hoof, never hurting the horse though. He would then trim whatever damaged or excessive hoof, just as we would recieve a manicure."

Masculinity

Local Business

Redlands (Calif.)

1900s

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1900s

Inland Mexican Heritage, Courtesy of Connie McFarland

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English

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