Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp., 1935, 1894
Chapter XIV What We Reporters Knew
[p. 158] "No one knows a town better than a reporter. And I was a reporter during the years when the pueblo was growing up.
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"[p, 159] One of my first assignments was the first fiesta-Fiesta de las Flores. It was a flavor of the old days coming back. Max Meyberg, a member of one of the pioneer Jewish families, was grand marshal, a trim and striking figure on a superb charger. All the elite turned out in carriages almost hidden in flowers. Those were still the days of fine carriage horses . . .
"For La Fiesta the fire department was shining and groomed until the horses gleamed. The national guard wass slick and marital in all its trappings, the officers staring staight ahead with the steadfast gaze of Napolean at Austerlitz. The public schools turned out in four-horse-talley-hos with lovely and excited flappers who are now grandmothers. Best of all, there came a prancing cavalcade of the sons of the early rancheros on splendid horses-a glitter of silver-mounted saddles and bridles, tapaderos almost sweeping the ground, sombreros, bearskin chaparajos, spurs and glamour."