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This is the 2nd of 9 murals painted in the community from 1998 to 2007. It is located at the corner of East Main Street and Davis Street. This mural was Completed in 1999 by Muralist Don Gray and assisted by his son Jared Gray.
This mural highlighted a 60-year span from 1880 to 1940 of the citrus industry in Santa Paula. The first scene, 1900, shows Japanese, Anglo and Hispanic field workers harvesting lemons. The second shows Nathan Blanchard, founder of Santa Paula and his packinghouse. The third pays tribute to all Latino pickers who have harvested citrus over the years. The fourth, 1940s, shows the significant role of women in packinghouses, including women whose families fled the terrible dustbowl conditions sweeping through the mid-west in the late 1930s.
