It's hard to imagine that this place existed before we did, before Hong Kong Supermarket, before 99 Ranch, before it was legal for Chinese people to be there. In 1942, this place was simultaneously shifting -- simultaneous to World War II, the Holocaust, Japanese occupation, the Chinese Exclusion Act -- all perfectly pushing and pulling people in time and space to form what is Rowland Heights now taken at face value. Rowland Heights is somewhat of a miracle from the perspective of a 1942 map. 1942, when Diamond Bar was a geological feature, named after sediment deposits along Brea Creek. As was the hills, the heights, ranches, and rodeos -- they were real, too, in 1942.
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| 1942 Anaheim Quadrangle via the War Department |
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