Transcripts For CSPAN3 C-SPAN3 Programming 20160208

It was the 10th of 21 California Missions to be founded by the spanish franciscans. It was rebuilt twice after earthquakes destroyed the in 1812 and 1925. Our Cable Partners worked with us one week travel to Santa Barbara to exports rich history. Learn more all weekend on cspan3. What brought so many people to Santa Barbara west incredible climate and the location. At themh facing coast all day sunshine, the fresh was inir, and that brochures. Ocean air, fresh mountain air, so that was seen as the cure for so many people in the 1870s and 1880s when we as a health resort. The Transcontinental Railroad has just been completed for a couple of years. They wanted him to write about the wonders california and greenpeace out here. He wrote about the various things he saw. Places iof all the have named, Santa Barbara is the best. Here, one can choose his climate. Come down to the ocean, go out l montecitocalled and you will get a different temperature. It was a constant temperature that he thought would be perfect. That would begin the big invalid boom to come out to Santa Barbara. Were from wealthier families because who could afford to take the train to Santa Barbara, check into a hotel, and the best hotel costs 20 a week, but that was big money back then. Generally it was the welltodo who came out here. That put Santa Barbara on the map. People thought it was full of desperadoes and villains and highwaymen. Restuld peoples mind at on california. In bullets coming out and people coming out. There are sitting breathing the fresh air. They started writing about wonder drives. Who wants to go out to a ranch or farm and see foliage . Would delight in the agriculture being produced. And there was the missions. After you see the mission, what else is there . Carriage drives and hikes were the big thing. City put in a flower festival that drew thousands to see these flowers in roses and different things. Coming into the 1920s, the Fiesta Program started. Many had realized all these great tales of the past were being lost, songs of the spanish and mexican era. Old had married into the mexican families. Their parents and grandparents still remembered the songs. Danisht on old spanish spanish days over several days. That program is still with us today. Santa barbara did benefit from tourism