Concepcion (Concha) Romero at Fairbanks Ranch, 1960
Item
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 entrepreneur. 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
Fairbanks Ranch
Business
Entrepeneur
restaurant
Cafe
Spatial Coverage
San Diego (Calif.)
Creator
unknown
Date
1960
Contributor
Inland Mexican Heritage
Format
Photograph
Language
English
Rights
Bibliographic Citation
Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
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 Harris Dalhberg, Ben Romero, Frank Romero at Fairbanks Ranch, late 1950s |
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