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Lupe Sanchez Band, 1964

Color photograph of the Lupe Sanchez Band with Blas Coyazo on guitar; Hemet Califorina, New Year's Eve 1964. Blas Coyazo said: "I play the bass guitar and the electric guitar and the electric guitar so for the last fifty years also, or more, out of the eighty-three years that I have, I've been playing with bands in the Inland Empire here. San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Hemet, Palm Springs, even Indio and Coachella, Perris, Pomona, Fontana, Bloomington, Corona...Saturday nights I used to go out moslty every week and earn perhaps twenty, twenty-five dollars extra...So I made that as a side work, you know, because I'd -- well, I learned how to play the guitar way back in 1927, '28."
Manuel Jacques at Cement Manufacturing Plant

Mary Garcia's father, Manuel Jacques, is pictured here at a concrete manufacturing plant on Colton Avenue in Redlands on December 18, 1939. Manuel is pictured with two other men as they lean against some cement pipes. Concrete conduit, standpipes, and other products were essential to the citrus industry in the days before plastic pipes.
The Redlands Mexican Drum and Bugel Corps, in the late 1920s

A black and white wide shot photograph of the Mexican Drum and Bugel Corps performing as they march down Colton Avenue in Redlands during the Dos de Abril festivities in the late 1920s. The band was sponsored by Mexican patriotic and fraternal organizations.
Redlands Mexican Philharmonic Orchestra

1920s black and white image of the Redlands Mexican Philharmonic Orchestra. Not much is known about the group, led by Professor Juan Balderas (center, holding cornet). Juan Balderas was a musical arranger and conductor who organized the first philharmonic orchestra of Los Angeles. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1893 and traveled trough Southern California, teaching and forming musical groups. Epimenio Guzman was a musician who played in the group, his granddaughter Connie McFarland recalled, "That's the band right there, that's my Grandpa with the saxophone [seated second row, fourth from left]. He said they used to play at the old opera house at the corner of Orange and Colton Avenue. It was called the Wyatt House."
Lupe Sanchez Band, 1964

Color photograph of the Lupe Sanchez Band with Blas Coyazo on guitar; Hemet Califorina, New Year's Eve 1964. Blas Coyazo said: "I play the bass guitar and the electric guitar and the electric guitar so for the last fifty years also, or more, out of the eighty-three years that I have, I've been playing with bands in the Inland Empire here. San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Hemet, Palm Springs, even Indio and Coachella, Perris, Pomona, Fontana, Bloomington, Corona...Saturday nights I used to go out mostly every week and earn perhaps twenty, twenty-five dollars extra...So I made that as a side work, you know, because I'd -- well, I learned how to play the guitar way back in 1927, '28."
2012 calendar Page 17, August dates

The black and white RCMAHS bottom calendar page of August 2012 is part of the previous page and contains the dates of the month. The first two squares show the surrounding months' calendars (July and September). The bottom left is an ad for a tow truck called Double-A Towing with contact and business information. The bottom right shows an ad for State Farm insurance agent Yolanda Vasquez-Meier.
2012 Calendar page 3, January dates

The January 2012 RCMAHS calendar page shows multiple holidays such as New Year's Day on the 1st and Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the 16th. At the bottom of the page are two local advertisements. One advertisement was for State Farm Insurance for Yolanda Vasquez-Meier. The text states: "Yolanda Vasquez-Meier Agent, Lic #0721892 935 S. Mt. Vernon Ave., Suite 108, Colton, CA 92324 909-370-4595 Fax: 909-370-0467 yolanda.vazquez-meier.b8gv@statefarm.com Hablamos Espanol State Farm Providing Insurance and Financial Services Home office, Bloomington, Illinois 61710." The other advertisement was for a local towing company. The text states: "Double Towing A Sonny 24 Hour Service (951)683-7707 3007 Cridge St. Riverside, CA Office Hours 8-5 Except Saturday, Sunday and Holidays. The after-hours charge for vehicles and Property Release No Checks Accepted."
Armando Lopez Interview

Interview with Armando Lopez on February 9, 1995. Armando discusses his early life in Redlands, California, including the sharp divide between the Presbyterian and Catholic communities. Additionally, he discusses his career as a teacher and administrator and the struggles for equity in the public school system. Also speaks about his local activism.
Lupe R. Yglecias & Margaret Castro interview

Interview Lupe R. Yglesias & Margaret Castro focusing on their childhood upbringing, the various types of labor their family were engaged with, and their educational progress and social mobility spanning across multiple generations.
Sam Coyazo Interview Remastered

1997 interview with Sam Coyazo. Sam speaks about his upbringing, the development of surrounding communities, his education and pleasures, his work as a packer and his military experience, and the process of "smudging" at citrus groves.
Joe Arredondo Water Interview

1999 interview with Joe Arredondo April 30, 1999, focusing specifically on water as Arredondo is the water man for the Greenspot Mutual and Greenspot Mutual Well in addition to being the treasurer and secretary for the water companies. He describes how he diverts the water, the process of shares, the use of Mundi water during dry years, and the growing cost of maintaining the pipes. He discusses the division of water between cities like Highland, Mentone, Redlands, Colton, as well as Riverside and Orange County.
2009 Calendar Page 19, Month of September

A white, generic calendar page for the month of September, 2009. The month is spelled out at the top in both English and Spanish. The federal holiday of Labor Day is demarcated on seventh of September. The beginning of Mexican Heritage Month and Mexican Independence Day are demarcated on the fifteenth and sixteenth of September respectively. The Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are demarcated on the eighteenth and twenty seventh of September respectively. Two advertisements are featured on the bottom of the page in rectangular cutouts, one for MDS Transcription Service on Ironwood Drive in Riverside California and one for State Farm, an insurance company. The advertisement for State Farm also notes a specific state farm agent, Yolanda Vasquez-Meier, in Colton, California. Both advertisements feature the logo of each company.
Blas Coyazo Interview

1994 interview with Blas Coyazo in which he focuses on citrus/migrant labor, his military service in World War II and life in Redlands.
Adam Ornelas Highgrove CA

Adam Ornelas discusses his memories of growing up in Highgrove, Calif., especially telling stories relating to the barbershop that his father owned growing up. He recalls that there were many small businesses and a strong sense of community as he was growing up, but that began to disappear following the Korean War. Other stories which particularly stood out were his story about a man being decapitated in the cement mines (the largest employer at the time) and his story about police mandating that men cut their long hair when they enter the town, citing that it indicated participation in gangs.
Dolores Cortez

Dolores Cortez is the founder of St. Mary's Folklorico. Cortez discusses the economic growth and the environmental impacts of the construction of the I-10 freeway. Cortez also discusses her work in the bilingual program as well as her life in Redlands, California.
Leland Richardson

Leland "Lee" Richardson discusses his family history from arriving in Colton to settling in Redlands and the work he and his sister have dedicated to their family genealogy. Richardson also discusses his life story, working in his father's auto garage and working in Douglas Aircraft.
Louis and Mae Lubinsky, University of Redlands

The interview starts off with Louis and Mae Lubinsky talking about their past history and their family's history. The interview shows the development of the area through the perspectives of Louis and Mae mainly centering around Louis since his family resided in the area throughout the majority of his life. Louis was born October 11th, 1914 in Chicago Illinois and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1915. During this time his father had established a locksmith shop in Los Angeles. Then in 1923, his family moved to Yucaipa to which his father bought an apple orchid as it was something his father was now interested in. Then a year or two later they moved to Redlands and then in 1924 or 1925 moved to San Bernardino staying there till 1932 when they moved back to Redlands. Then 1935 his father bought a property in Loma Linda. The interview then goes towards Mae who was born in 1914 in New York City till 1920 when her family moved to Rochester, New York. During World War II she worked in a factory owned by the Navy making munitions /“sight finders for bombers” in Rochester. In 1943 she came to the Loma Linda area where she met Louis who was currently in the Army. Louis started off in field artillery till his battalion shifted into a tank destroyer battalion. He then went overseas to Germany and then was transferred into a government service unit that enforce rule over the Germans at the end of the war. When the war ended in Japan his service ended as well. The interview then shifts towards the past of the area which Louis talks about how his father owned apple orchids when the prices of apples completely collapsed due to the orchids growing up in the mountains above Yucaipa were growing better and were better. His father then established a hardware store in 1923 where burrows appliance currently is near State and 5th for two years till they established a similar business in San Bernardino. He lived there till 1933 when he finished high school. Then moving to Loma Linda in 1935. The freeway then came by with the construction was near his home which he wasn’t specific about the date but in 1962 moved back to Redlands till the current time of the interview. They stayed in the business similar to his fathers till 1980. They then begin to talk about the multiple names his current location has had “Ocean to Ocean Highway”, “Highway 99”, “Colton Ave”, and then “Redlands Blvd”.
Joe Gonzales

Joe Gonzales and Lenard Torres discuss racial discrimination in the 1920s and societal changes and displacement within Redlands, California following the construction of the I-10 freeway. Gonzales and Torres also discuss the lack of representation within community involvement in Redlands, California.