"Little Europe"

Kleine Europa




BULL VS BEAR












"Little Europe" was on Stubblefield Road, off Hwy 33, 13.5 miles Southwest of Maricopa. California. It was on the Bill Stubblefield Ranch.
Gerald Hudson was raised on the ajoining ranch, he states there was an artisian well
here.





Kleines Europa wurde in der Nähe Maracopa, Kalifornien. Viele deutsche Familien aus dem südlichen Kalifornien würde hier am Wochenende kommen, endet. Susan Lang kam mit ihrer Familie häufig. Susan hatte Spaß ihr Pony reiten und Motorrad.

Susan Lang Vater machte das Bad und Picknick Tisch für die Gruppe.






This gas station was used by the German families when they were visiting
"Little Europe" . It was called the Reye's 76 Station. An old lady sold things
there at the time.

Below is a collection of photos taken by the Lang family of "Little Europe" in the 1960s and 1970s.











Susan Lang's Boy friend (above)in gold jacket














This feature can be seen now and in the back ground of the Lang Family photo with the red out house, built by Mr. Lang.



"Modern day Maricopa"

Maricopa

Physical Address: 400 California Street
Maricopa, CA 93252-0550
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 550
Maricopa, CA 93252-0548
Phone: (661) 769-8279
Fax: (661) 769-8130
Website:
Hours: Tuesday - Friday 8a.m. - 5p.m.

"Gateway to the Sea"
Incorporated July 25, 1911, this "mother city" of the prolific Midway-Sunset Oil Fields is the gateway to the Cerro Noreste/Mt. Pinos recreation area.

Maricopa is the name applied by a Pima Indian Tribe to a neighboring tribe of Uymas inhabiting the Gila River Valley in southern Arizona. How the name reached California is unknown, but it was given to the oil-booming community when a station on the Sunset Western Railroad was established there in 1903.

The real growth in Maricopa began with the opening of the first Lakeview gusher in 1910. The famed gusher helped make Kern County "First in Oil" in the state and nation.



Mr. Hudson (left) was raised across the street from the Ranch, on the Hudson Ranch. He supplied much of the information here.


Some of the other adjacent ranches around little Europe were:The Reyes family ranch owned and operated the gas station. At the turn of the last century J.D Reyes and some of his relatives supposedly had something to do with
The old yarn of the Grizzly verses the bull mythology of the area. The old lady that worked in the gas station store was Reyes family member. The bull wins!



The Wegis family ranch, whom brought and planted hundred’s of tiger lilies.
Anton, Franz and Gebhardt Wegis came from Germany to the Cuyama Valley in the 1880’s . The ruins of their homesteads can be seen in the area, decomposing sod and adobe features.

English to German translation:
Die Reyes Familienranch Besitzer und Betreiber der Tankstelle. An der Wende des letzten Jahrhunderts JD Reyes und einige seiner Verwandten angeblich hatte etwas damit zu tun,
Der alte Garn der Grizzly Verse der Stier Mythologie des Bereichs. Die alte Dame, die in der Tankstelle gejobbt war Reyes Familienmitglied. Der Bulle gewinnt!



Die Familie Wegis Ranch, die gebracht und angepflanzt hundert von Feuerlilien.
Anton, Franz und Gebhardt Wegis kamen aus Deutschland, den Cuyama Valley in den 1880er Jahren. Die Ruinen ihrer Höfe in der Gegend gesehen werden, zersetzen Rasen und Adobe Features.



NOTES FROM SUSAN LANG'S MOM (1)



NOTES FROM SUSAN LANG'S MOM (2)



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Susan Lang today.


Susan Lang when I knew her in 1975


SUSAN LANG WORKING IN 1974








THE LANG FAMILY TRAILER 1973


THE LANG FAMILY HOME IN VAN NUYS, 1973



Party, 1975, LANG






SUSAN LANG IN GERMANY

Cabazon Dinosaurs

I went to see thses in 2012. I did not like the creationism BULL SHITbut love the dinos! From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Cabazon Dinosaurs Tourists can walk inside Dinny the Dinosaur General information Architectural style Novelty architecture Town or city Cabazon, California Country United States Coordinates 33°55′12.41″N 116°46′22.24″W Construction started 1964 (Dinny) / 1981 (Mr. Rex) Completed 1975 (Dinny) / 1986 (Mr. Rex) Cost $300,000 (Dinny) Design and construction Architect Claude K. Bell Structural engineer Gerald Hufstetler Cabazon Dinosaurs, also referred to as Claude Bell's Dinosaurs, are enormous, sculptured roadside attractions located in Cabazon, California and visible to the immediate north of Interstate 10. The site features Dinny the Dinosaur, a 150-ton building shaped like a larger-than-life-sized Apatosaurus, and Mr. Rex, a 100-ton Tyrannosaurus rex structure. Dinny (pronounced "Dine-ee") and Mr. Rex are at the Cabazon exit of Interstate 10 in California, a short distance west of Palm Springs behind the Wheel Inn diner on Seminole Drive in San Gorgonio Pass. The Wheel Inn Restaurant, once owned by Claude Bell The creation of the Cabazon dinosaurs began in the 1960s by Knott's Berry Farm sculptor and portrait artist Claude K. Bell (1897–1988) to attract customers to his Wheel Inn Cafe, which opened in 1958. Dinny, the first of the Cabazon dinosaurs, was started in 1964 and created over a span of eleven years.[1] Bell created Dinny out of spare material salvaged from the construction of nearby Interstate 10 at a cost of $300,000.[2] The biomorphic building that was to become Dinny was first erected as steel framework over which an expanded metal grid was formed in the shape of a dinosaur.[3] All of it was then covered with coats of shotcrete (spray concrete). Bell was quoted in 1970 as saying the 45-foot (14 m) high, 150-foot (46 m) long Dinny was "the first dinosaur in history, so far as I know, to be used as a building."[4] His original vision for Dinny was for the dinosaur's eyes to glow and mouth to spit fire at night, predicting, "It'll scare the dickens out of a lot of people driving up over the pass."[4] These two features, however, were not added. With the help of ironworker Gerald Hufstetler, Bell worked on the project independently; no construction companies or contractors were involved in the fabrication. The task of painting Dinny was completed by a friend of Bell's in exchange for one dollar and a case of Dr Pepper.[citation needed] A second dinosaur, Mr. Rex, was constructed near Dinny in 1981. Originally, a giant slide was installed in Rex's tail; it was later filled in with concrete making the slide unusable. A third woolly mammoth sculpture and a prehistoric garden were drafted, but never completed due to Bell's death in 1988.[5] [edit] Creationist museum Exhibits and displays inside Dinny detail arguments for Young Earth creationism and against evolutionism. This one concludes that the "Evolutionary Origin of Life Is Impossible". Following the sale of the property by Bell's surviving family in the mid-1990s, Cabazon Family Partnership and MKA Cabazon Partnership of Costa Mesa, California became the new owners of the roadside attraction. The partnership obtained approval for a major expansion of the Cabazon dinosaur site in 1996 with the land-use approvals including restaurants, a museum, and gift shop, and a 60-room motel at the Main Street exit in Cabazon. Orange County developer and MKA partner Gary Kanter states the original vision has been for MKA to transform the area into a children's science and museum exhibit.[6] Currently located inside Dinny is a gift store and museum promoting creationism with some of the toy dinosaurs in the shop sold under the label "Don't swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution."[7] The current ownership has expressed a Young Earth creationist belief that most dinosaurs were created on Earth about 6,000 years ago – the same day as Adam and Eve.[7] In stark contrast to that belief are Bell's painted frescoes and sculptures inside Dinny, depicting a naturalist and evolutionary viewpoint. Bell's paintings include representations of Cro-Magnon man (labeled "Cro-Magnon Man 30,000 [years ago]") and Java Man (labeled "Java Man 400,000"). Bell's historic displays now exist alongside information detailing the creationist viewpoint of the earth and man's origins.[5] The Cabazon Dinosaurs attraction also features an open-air museum with fiberglass and robotic dinosaurs. Other activities at the site include a sand pit where visitors can experience a "dino dig"[8] as well as a gemstone and fossil-panning sluice. Pastor Robert Chiles, assisting Kanter in turning the exhibit into a non-denominational church, has been quoted as to his belief of why children are drawn to the dinosaur attraction, "There's something in their DNA that knows man walked with these creatures on Earth."[7] Chiles and Kanter plan to promote their views of creationism at the attraction based on their interpretation of the Book of Genesis.[7]"

"Arrowhead Art" 2

Here is some of my "Arrowhead Art" . Flintknapping has been my hobby all my life.


Ray Harwood, flintknapper

ANGELA PARKER, SUSAN GLEASON, JEANNIE BINNING FLINTKNAPPERS, BY RAY HARWOOD

ANGELA PARKER FROM CARTOON BY RAY HARWOOD

FLINTACLAUSE, SANTA CLAUSE FLINTKNAPPER, BY RAY HARWOOD