{"id":5574,"date":"2011-11-02T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2011-11-02T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:22:28","slug":"feeney-to-discuss-rise-of-citrus-industry-at-smhps-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=5574","title":{"rendered":"Feeney to Discuss Rise of Citrus Industry at SMHPS Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5588\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PeglerRanch.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5588\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5588 \" title=\"PeglerRanch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PeglerRanch-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PeglerRanch-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PeglerRanch-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PeglerRanch.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citrus washing apparatus at the Pegler Ranch, circa 1900. Photo courtesy of Sierra Madre Historical Preservation Society<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SMHPS80yearssm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-453\" title=\"SMHPS80yearssm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SMHPS80yearssm-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SMHPS80yearssm-300x256.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SMHPS80yearssm-150x128.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SMHPS80yearssm.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><em>Posted 11\/2\/11 &#8211; <\/em>Please join the Sierra Madre Historical Preservation Society on Friday November 4, 2011 at 7 pm at the Library, 440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd..\u00a0\u00a0 Local resident <strong>Joe Feeney<\/strong> will highlight the advent of the citrus industry in California, also known as the Second Gold Rush.\u00a0 The citrus industry generated billions of dollars of commerce.\u00a0 At one time LA County was the biggest agricultural producer (in dollar value) in the United States.\u00a0 It was the citrus industry that established the infrastructure that allowed for the expansion of the population in Southern California after WWII.\u00a0 This illustrated lecture will include slides and objects such as assorted harvesting bags and boxes and advertising.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation is open and free to the public.\u00a0 No reservations are required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted 11\/2\/11 &#8211; Please join the Sierra Madre Historical Preservation Society on Friday November 4, 2011 at 7 pm at the Library, 440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd..\u00a0\u00a0 Local resident Joe Feeney will highlight the advent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}