Mi Ranchito an Island of Tradition Amid East Highlands Neighborhoods
Redlands Daily Facts › March 05, 2006
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HIGHLAND The path to Old California runs under the freeway, past the man-made ponds, around the master-planned neighborhoods and their middle-class mansions. Hang a right where the orange groves used to be, where the juice shop is now, and welcome to Mi Ranchito.
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Mi Ranchito an Island of Tradition Amid East Highlands Neighborhoods
Look for the simple homes of varying sorts, an old woman's face creased like bark and a casual wave of a hand-held cigarette from another woman living in a stone house.
Nearly everything else in east Highland screams new. New families moving into new tract homes. New parks, new schools and new strip malls.Then there's Mi Ranchito, founded by Mexican immigrants who worked in the orange groves. It's San Bernardino County 1896."Everything all around us, it's different," said Rose Perez, sitting outside her home, built of the same river rock as the community's church."But this neighborhood, nothi...See the full content of this document
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