California's Mexican past

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A folkloric dancers voluminous skirt is part of the show in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. For a brief but influential period from the early 1820s to the late 1840s California was Mexican. One of those early settlements lives on as San Diegos Old Town district.

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( Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times )

A folkloric dancers voluminous skirt is part of the show in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. For a brief but influential period from the early 1820s to the late 1840s California was Mexican. One of those early settlements lives on as San Diegos Old Town district.