San Rafael Avenue, one of All the Saints of the City of the Angels

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=110 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="79" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 25 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home Page of All the Saints of the City "><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 25 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="gallery.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gallery of Images and Stories of All the"><U><B>Stories</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="san_ysido_drive.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="San Ysidro Drive, one of All the Saints "><U><B>San Ysidro Drive</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="73"><div> <B>San </B><B>Rafael Avenue</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 54 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="santa_catalina_avenue.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Santa Catalina Avenue, one of All the Sa"><U><B>Santa Catalina Ave</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 55 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="santa_clara_avenue.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Santa Clara Avenue, one of All the Saint"><U><B>Santa Clara Avenue</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="santa_monica_boulevard.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Santa Monica Boulevard, one of All the S"><U><B>Santa Monica Blvd</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 49 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="san_lorenzo_street.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="San Lorenzo Street, one of All the Saint"><U><B>San Lorenzo Street</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="73"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="73" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="73"><div> <A HREF="st_moritz_drive.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St Moritz Drive, one of All the Saints o"><U><B>St. Moritz Drive</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="73"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="73" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="798" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="VOID" RULES="ROWS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 117 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1c51b3c0.jpg" border=0 width="795" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets - Paintings and Stories by J. Michael Walker</div> <div> <IMG SRC="18458020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 45 WIDTH="790"><div> <B>Gallery of Images and Stories:</B><B> </B><B>San Rafael Avenue</B></div> <div> A crossing guard-ian angel atop L.A.'s Mt. Washington</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 626 ><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="793" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="VOID" RULES="ROWS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 566 WIDTH="785"><div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#AAAAAA" FACE="Georgia" ><A HREF="gallery.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gallery of Images and Stories of All the"><U><I><B><IMG SRC="0d5d0570.jpg" border=0 width="464" height="343" ALT="J Michael Walker, All the Saints of the City of the Angels - San Rafael Avenue, detail" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="15" VSPACE="0"></B></I></U></A></FONT>Some two hundred years ago, Corporal José María Verdugo was deeded Rancho San Rafael, extending from Cypress Park and Mt. Washington, to Burbank and La Cañada Flintridge. José Maria soon passed the rancho to two of his children, who, as economic times worsened in the 1860's, took on loans they could not repay and lost their inheritance.</div> <bR> <div> All that remains now of Rancho San Rafael are a few adobe houses in Glendale and a small road tumbling off Mt. Washington. </div> <bR> <div> The Avenue and Rancho were both named for the archangel San Rafael, who appears in legend as a wise stranger accompanying a boy named Tobias on the journey that will make him a man. The archangel's guidance led San Rafael to be regarded as the Guardian Angel.</div> <bR> <div> What comfort to find him still on the job, on San Rafael Avenue, where each weekday a crossing guard shepherds children across the crosswalk to Mt. Washington Elementary School. Anxious parents dropping their children off in the morning may take comfort in his legend's reassuring words:</div> <bR> <div> “For a good angel will accompany him; his journey will be successful, and he will come back in good health.”</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="785"><div> This website, all images and all text Copyright 2008 by J Michael Walker. All rights reserved</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>