Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
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out become a second New York City. Fruit and petroleum are its chief natural resources. Put up at the Carrillo Hotel. Santa Barbara, Saturday Feb 12. This town of 37,000 people is 3/5 in Spanish Mission style of architecture. One and two story houses predominate and all in light bright colors — white, yellow and orange in lighter tints. With the intro- duced plants of palms, palmettos, canes, we get the impression of foreign land—oil Mexico to cause all is once left, but I suppose rather the better parts of Spain. However all is rather appear- ance done in concrete and cement and there's any of it in substantial stone. There is to be had downtown hard Mission sometime of a light yellow brick color. One sees almost no effect of the last earthquake. Here and there one sees cracks along the sides of the arcades that maybe of the earthquake or settling. The hotel from what suffered very little from it.