Jean-Guy Dubé presents Select & Surviving Depots of Riverside & San Bernardino County

In the 1880s, Southern California experienced agricultural, land and real estate booms. To serve a growing Southern California, numerous depots of the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Pacific Electric dotted the landscape. In the 1920s through 1940s, the railroads re-imagined their depots along with a re-envisioned Southern California. We’ll look at the variety of diverse depot designs that served Riverside and San Bernardino County. We’ll see the small handful that survive today, and how they are used.

Monday, September 26th, 2022

Program starts: 7:00pm
Doors Open: 6:30 pm

This event is FREE and open to the Public.
Refreshments will be served.

Awarded the national Leicester B. Holland Prize for 2017 by the National Park Service and Library of Congress, author, architectural draftsman and historian Jean-Guy Dubé has researched and written about Southern Pacific depots since 1983. Mr. Dubé is author of “Railroad Depots: A Southern Pacific Collection” which features 48 black and white blueprint drawings he has created, spanning many decades, styles and subject matter. He is a listed architectural historian with the County and City of Santa Barbara and celebrates thirteen years with the architectural firm of Appleton Partners, LLP. He is a member of the Southern Pacific Historic and Technical Society and the Southern California Railroad Museum. Following the lecture, he will be glad to answer your depot related questions.

More information about Mr. Dube’s book and blueprints can be found on his Etsy store. www.etsy.com/shop/depotblueprints.

This is a meeting of the General Membership and a presentation of the Glendora Historical Society hosted by the Glendora Public Library.