20 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY august 3-9, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com SPECIAL THANKS The photos accompanying this essay are exclusively from the Monterey County Historical Society’s Pat Hathaway Collection. Special thanks to MCHS Executive Director James Perry for helping with the selection of photos, and to both him and MCHS volunteer Thom Taft for their efforts in delivering them. The Monterey Peninsula in 1879 was a region in transition—Californio culture, and land, was giving way to American culture and land sharks. By Robert Louis Stevenson Mexicans, Americans, a The Old Pacific Capital, Part 2 This picture by C.W.J. Johnson, circa 1887, is titled “View from the Custom House looking up Alvarado Street.” Gambling in Pacific Grove’s Chinatown, circa 1900. The village, which dated back to the 1850s, was suspected to have been burnt down by white arsonists on May 17, 1906.
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