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The Concord Stage Coach and other stories.
First 100 Years in Laguna Beach by Merle and Mabel Ramsey page 52

THE OLD CONCORD STAGE COACH
The old Concord stagecoach that serviced Laguna for so many years stopped running about 1910. It was always StageCoach_1990s_400sheltered in the Dan Ponder barn located where, the library is today. When it was retired, it was on exhibit for a number of years. It was later sold by the owner, Mrs. Joseph Skidmore, for $50 to a movie company that demolished it completely by running it over a cliff at Dana Point during a filming. It was a great loss to the posterity of Laguna Beach.

BROADWAY-The Canyon Creek
Until the 1930's Broadway was a creek that came down the Laguna Canyon. It was a slough where tules grew with millions of mosquitos that rose like a cloud every day about four o'clock in the afternoon. The street was paved and improved about 1937. The creek today is piped underground to the ocean.

PIO PICO
The last Mexican Governor of California was Pio Pico. He was a citizen of three countries, the United States, Spain and Mexico. He left a bad record in the U.S. He went back to Mexico in 1846. He had given. property to his friends that did not suit the U.S. In 1848 he returned after the U.S. had taken over. We read very little about Pio Pico after 1848.

THE FIRST DENTIST
Before the 1890's a toothache need not go neglected. There was a dentist until 1890 at the Laguna Canyon and EI Toro Roads-Dr. Charles Butterfield. He was also a talented musician and later located in Santa Ana.