El Camino Not-So-Real: The true story of the 'royal' road | Bay Curious
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- El Camino Real - originally part of 101 - runs the length of the Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose. It’s very name implies a regal history. Translated from the Spanish, it means “The King’s Highway.”
Legend has it, the El Camino Real in Silicon Valley is part of the historic Mission trail, an ancient road that connects the Spanish missions, like a string of pearls along the California coast.
But is that true?
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I’ve hit every taco bell along the kings highway!
Cheers
I've had the In-n-Out urge!
First time I ever visited the Bay Area, my buddy took me to a really cool Korean BBQ place on El Camino Real in San Bruno. I want to go back next time I'm out there.
Was it Seoul Kalbi?
@@joshscores3360 Yes it was!
Little luca sandwich shop !
I assume that the Spanish would have developed the existing trails, making them suitable for horses and vehicles.
Come out of the dark ages that false history teaches. Learn about the previous civilization that existed before Europeans got here. That they take credit for.
I feel sorry for your lack of California’s true history. There was roads before the Spanish arrived. There was also a civilization that has been sequestered in myth. So that Europeans can prop up the back ward Indian myth. So they can take credit for the previous civilization.......
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@@massdisruption3437 , I don't think you understood what I said. There have been trails here for many thousands of years, and probably took the best routes. Native peoples made them. Newcomers like the Spanish probably used them, widened some of them to be suitable for horses, wagons, etc.
That historian should know that Portola and his men certainly did "blaze" a trail as they traveled up the California coast in search of Monterey. They followed Indian trails when they could but the Spanish explorers also built bridges across ravines and arroyos where no Indian trails ever were. And of course the Spaniards called the road between the Missions "El Camino Real", what were they suppose to call it "Main Street"??
During the time the missions wer built, California was one of several provinces (Los Californias, Texas, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Aguascalientes) under two governing bodies. 1. The Real Audencia Government of Guadalajajara, Jalisco (Nueva Galicia), Mexico (Nueva Espana). 2. The Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Jalisco (Nueva Galicia), Mexico (Nueva Espana). I often research my ancestry in the archives. I have gotton back as far as 1606. The ships that traveled up the coast to explore the San Francisco Bay area came from the port of San Blas of the province of Nayarit. Northern California isn't that old (second half of the 1700's) as compared to southern California and the rest of Mexico (1500's). There is a much older trail called "El Camino Tierra Adentro" that connected Mexico City all the way up to Santa Fe, New Mexico which was used by the natives during the time of the Aztecs.
...and those are the trails above ground...
Unfortunately the real roads are underground. With new roads and trails on them. Few people know about the earth liquification event. That buried the original civilization. I feel sorry for your lack of California’s true history. There was roads before the Spanish arrived. There was also a civilization that has been sequestered in myth. So that Europeans can prop up the back ward Indian myth. So they can take credit for the previous civilization.......
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@@massdisruption3437 In the archives I have read the log of the Gaspar de Portola expedition by land where they traveled all the way up to San Francisco area and back to Monterey. He met Indios along the way and he also noted down the language translated to spanish. I have a copy of that. His expeditions carried pine seeds to eat. When his expedition arrived at san mateo county area they encountered abandoned huts that were infested with fleas and he gave the name, "rancho de pulgas." Today there is a street in san mateo called "Alameda de Las Pulgas."
That’s pretty cool I never knew that I drive on this road every so often
I am very proud of my ancestry. The Spanish language. The Spanish missions. The Spanish conquistadors. We are still here and we love our state and country. We will fight to protect our country, USA.
I grew up visiting the missions all throughout Baja Calif. Sur, Mexico to Sonoma, California and let me tell you,
El Camino Real actually extends from the town of Loreto on the Sea of Cortez, which is known as the first and former capital of the Californias. This video only mentions the missions along the present California coast, but NOT in Baja. Just pause at 1:19 and you'll see the name "Loreto" engraved on the bell. Cool, informative content.
There's an El Camino Real in Missouri too
For an instance, I thought the guy in the video was Hugh Hefner as I've never seen him. With gray hair.
Interesting!!
I've lived near the El Camino Real in Mountain View, CA from 2002~2009.
Most of America's highways were built along old Indian trails. I don't see it as much of a myth but a misunderstanding thinking the Spanish built them. California was a bit far north of Mexico city so it's crazy to imagine the Spanish would bother to build any roads that can stretch the length of California.
Thank you!
Really well done, thank you. Love the podcast, too.
If I could back in time just once.... I would want to see the Bay before Europeans happened.
If I could go back in time I’d follow Jesus when he was on this earth
I recall reading about California that here the Spanish "...encountered rivers that boiled with fish and skies which darkened with birds, and large grizzleys were found everywhere."
Yeah, the Auto Club version is EXACTLY what I was taught attending San Diego public schools. "Tens of thousands of dead indigenous people? Whatever, it's all about manifest destiny, kid!"
Wait is that what those green bells are for symbolize the road?
Sounds like an anglo is trying to down play history that's not anglo. Because anglos are heros saviors. Of everything
Where’s the myth?
The actual Camino Real runs through New Mexico.
I live like 2 blocks from the San Gabriel mission. Feels great to live near such a historic place.
You know what they say. When your in the bay…
In the first place it was Juan B. De Anza who "BLAZED THE TRAIL called El Camino Real. He had an Indian guide to lead him from Tucson to the coast of California. Who ever produced this should of studied some history before telling this cringe story.
I really don't think it matters who the roads were created by. They still have some historical significance. Why would the Spanish arrive in California and create their own trails, instead of using the trails that already existed. This story is silly.
These are SJWs that hate anything European
@@StrokedGT There are mindless, clueless trump trolling proto-fascists who would like to continue the diminishment of all things non-white and don’t know or care about actual factual history.
I get that same tone. Like they’re trying way to hard to make sure we know that the trails were already here because of the natives
@@StrokedGT Where do you get that asinine remark?
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My whole life is a lie 🥲
... built by indigenous peoples
...built
yeah ok..
I'm not from the bay area and this video is extremely lacking. "There's kind of this myth thing you probably know ALLLL about so we won't bore you with the details(not even remotely true) and listen to our podcast which we will not link in the show notes." All of UA-cams recommended videos relating to this are 5 times as long with more info not from a news channel. This video isn't even long enough for an ad. You really did a 2 min video? Next you should do a history on Golden Gate Park. "Eh, we like nature and stuff. The End."
You almost got it right; this is an ad for the Bay Curious podcast. KQED ads are not for everyone. Wherever you are, I hope you love your history and your local stations. Stay well.
We should’ve let them crumble ...and not had glorized this history .. as enslaved Native Americans built these structures were edited out of our history books.
Dog bites tail.
Were the 'ruins' not preserved, perhaps the missionary enslavement would have remained 'swept under the rug'?
should turn all those missions into homeless shelters
Umm what's the myth?