El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument

This guide to El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument in Los Angeles opens in nineteen twenty eight, when a crumbling adobe on a forgotten dead-end alley called Olvera Street was condemned and slated for demolition. It follows Christine Sterling, a Northern California transplant who fought to save it, painting her own protest sign and talking a newspaper publisher, investors and the county sheriff into backing her cause. The adobe at the street's center was built in eighteen eighteen for a two-time mayor, Francisco Avila.