![]() She went to art school and became an architect. The Union Station Harvey Restaurant was designed by Mary Colter (1869 – 1958). The Harvey Girls essentially civilized the West. What was significant about the Harvey Girls, was that many women in the Old West were either prostitutes or of low repute. The former Harvey Restaurant at Union Station is currently the Imperial Western Beer Company. They worked as servers and signed 6-month contracts. The Union Station Harvey restaurant was established after the station was built in 1939 toward the end of the Harvey Restaurant Era and closed in 1967.Įach Harvey Girl was well educated, well-groomed, unmarried, between the ages 18-30, and had high moral values. The meal accommodations at most stops were dirty and disgusting. Harvey Restaurants were built at train stops starting in the late 1870s because there were no dining cars on trains at that time. The Harvey Girls – We’ve all seen the movie “The Harvey Girls” with Judy Garland and Angela Lansbury, right? Well, they had a Harvey Restaurant at Union Station in Downtown LA. She was probably more like 112, which was miraculous for that time period. She died in 1878 claiming she was 139 years old. It was one of the first product exports to Spain. The missions had fruit orchards and she took the lemons and turned them into lemonade. Later she remarried and her husband gambled away her land.Įulalia was one of the creators of lemonade. Her husband died and because she was beloved was gifted a rancho near Mission San Gabriel that was 14,000 acres. The fear was when women married English-speaking settlers they could lose their land to their husbands which often happened in other states.ĭuring the Rancho Period, a woman named Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné, who was born in Laredo, Mexico in 1766 married a soldier at 15 and started having children. Let’s start with the Rancho periodĭuring the Spanish occupation of California, women were allowed to own land, and when it became a state it was written into the California Constitution of 1849. Its been a center for the women’s movement, for diversity, progressive ideas, and innovation. Los Angeles has always been a city for women, and they’ve made a huge impact on its history, culture, business, and architecture. If you are interested in taking either their walking tours or virtual tours, I highly recommend them. One was hosted by the Los Angeles Conservancy and the other by LA Walking Tours. Since I live in Los Angeles, I wanted to feature a small fraction of the prominent women who made an impact on Los Angeles history and made it what it is today. March is Women’s History Month and there are always so many women to celebrate.
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