Posted on 08/26/2005 1:26:39 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Photo shows a crowd of 1400 Mexicans at Central Station when they departed today for their old homes in Mexico. The families, with their babies, guitars, blankets, shawls and bundles, left on three special Southern Pacific trains chartered by Los Angeles County, which set aside about $15,000 to aid them in their repatriation.
Officials estimated that this sum spent on transportation would be recovered within six weeks in savings on charity. Photo dated: January 14, 1932.
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Photo shows part of a throng of Mexican men, women and children at the station when they departed today on four trains for their native land. The repatriation of the Mexican families, which had been cared for by the county welfare departments, was directed by the departments and officials of the Mexican government. Many of the Mexicans will be taken back to their home towns. Photo dated: March 9, 1932. (LA Public Library)
Is this the last time we defended our borders? 73 years ago!
As an unrelated aside, is it not amazing that once upon a time, even the humblest of us tried to dress nicely?
I always notice that in old photos too. All those guys at the ballgame in suits, ties and straw boaters.
WOW. That is extremely interesting. Times sure have changed.
Yes. I wish somehow we could get back to that style, instead of the sandals-and-shorts everywhere style.
That's the year I was born-----God,the difference in the dress style.
Yeah. Until then I'd settle for my daughters' boyfriends just pulling their pants all the way up and taking their baseball caps off in the house.
The clothing was the first thing I noticed.
That is still a beautiful train stattion. Hard to believe it was once so crowded all the time. Now is is cavernous and few people.
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There is the big difference.
Great reply. TImes HAVE changed. I love that about old
pictures--everyone looks prosperous, even during the
Depression.
Ever sit on a plane seated next to a sweathog in a muscle shirt showing off his armpits? No wonder they still have barf bags.
Tell me about it. And they are always the ones who have no respect for other people's personal space. I don't get it.
Los Angeles Times, Jan 12, 1932TRAINS TO TAKE MEXICANS HOME
Thirteen Hundred Leaving on Specials Today
Charities Department Aiding Repatriation Move
Southern California Exodus Estimated at 75,000Three special Southern Pacific passenger trains will leave at 9:30 a.m. today bearing more than 1300 Mexican repatriates to their former homes below the international boundary. Eight hundred are returning by way of El Paso for distribution southward from that point and the remainder will enter their homeland at Nogales to proceed down the West Coast.
According to figures announced at Mexico City yesterday, slightly more than 200,000 Mexicans have left the United States in the last fourteen months.
From 50,000 to 75,000 of that figure are estimated to have returned from Southern California.
The Mexicans started the great migration southward because of economic conditions under which they experienced difficulty in obtaining work.
In the majority of instances in Los Angeles county the charities departments have assisted the repatriates in leaving by trainloads, although border points have reported that hundreds have passed going southward in automobiles.
The photos actually show Central Station...not LA Union Station, which was built later.
As far as I am concerned, the crowd depicted in the photograph can come into the country at any time. What a difference with what we are getting today. And I don't mean just out of Mexico.
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