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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1893 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. THE PEOPLE OF THE ADOBE. BETWEEN NEW AND OLD: --A CORNER IN LOS ANGELES. DISTINCT class of odors, sensations and impressions hang about every Spanish-American town. Whether in New Mexico or California, they are so much the same, so nearly alike, that they would be recognizable to a blind man who had once learned to distinguish them. Yet it is difficult to describe them with any hope of conveying a correct idea of what they are to him who covers all points with the undoubtedly true statement that a town is a collection of human habitations, and a city a bigger one, and there rests. One of the strongest individualities on earth is the Spanish. A man who never changes himself, he impresses himself upon all his surroundings if they are of his own beginning. It is not that he is strong, for he is entirely and invariably unable to resist, in this country, the ideas and encroachments of the Saxon. He avoids, when he possibly can, the pain attendant upon the parturition of a new idea. The things he knows he knows nationally, and his very individuality is a national one. It is thus that amid all the newness of American life he retains his adobe corner unimpaired, alone, apart, separate, individualized. It is so in Santa Fe or Albuquerque, in Las Vegas or El Paso, and so also in the obscure nook he still retains in the beautiful city which is, except in name, the very antipodeof everything Spanish; in Los Angeles itself. Perhaps it is in the mere brown fact of adoba alone, yet adobe is one of his few acquired ideas which has become second nature. But it necessitates the thick walls, the small windows, the low doors, tha single stories, the long porches, the sunken floors, always and everywhere generally characteristic of Spanish-American occupation. The st..


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150987670
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150987677
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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