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Stop for a moment to look back across the years to the time when a historical pageant titled "Romantic California" was presented at the Santa Barbara Bowl, which was built in 1936 as a W.P.A. project. The Bowl was originally designed as a venue to house Fiesta events, particularly the "Romantic California" pageant… "Nature made a picturesque little amphitheater …in the foothills of the Santa Barbara Riviera, and on this natural outdoor stage, takes place each year a thrilling pageant…inspired by the beauty of Charles Pressley's Nacimiento de Santa Barbara…the pageant reaches its breathtaking climax…as the caballeros and senoritas…come riding down from the crest of the hill, across the fiesta stage and into the grass court in front of the spectators…As long as you live, this will be a memory that will stay with you and regale you…" Litti Paulding, Drama Critic S.B. News Press, sometime in the 1930's… |
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