Andres Bermudez dies at 58; 'Tomato King' and Mexican officeholder - Los Angeles Times

Over the years, he went from farm laborer to foreman and labor contractor and rancher in the Yolo County town of Winters. He grew tomatoes and bell peppers, and invented a tomato-planting machine that made him a fortune.

Bermudez built his family a large house on the land he once worked. He added a swimming pool but swam in it only once, almost drowning. "To be rich, you gotta have a swimming pool," he told a reporter.

In 2000, Zacatecas Gov. Ricardo Monreal visited and urged him to run for mayor of Jerez.

Bermudez was unlettered and coarse. Analysts later doubted Monreal meant his invitation seriously, but Bermudez took him up on it and appeared in Jerez to run for mayor in 2001 in Monreal's center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution.

The media quickly dubbed him the Tomato King. Immigration scholars hailed him as a "binational symbol."

Zacatecas has sent hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the United States. Most families in Jerez have relatives

I Love Living In Sunny Anaheim, California~!!!!

Today my little boy asked me " Momma, Why do you care about homes so much?" What a precious question, I really do love Homes, I love the colors, wood trim, Windows and the different ways to decorate them, but most of all I love the fact that they represent memories of great "Family Time". Mommies, Daddies and children dwell there and that is what excites me. I am also an artist so I see each home as a canvas, It is interesting what some people do with them. His question really got me thinking and as I drove on to the store today, this is what I realized!.

I love homes so much because I grew up in a rich environment of beautiful architecture! I live in Anaheim, one block west of the historical district! I will be posting pictures soon, but if you can imagine how rich this environment is with, Craftsmen style bungalows, Colonial Revivals, Queen Anne Victorian houses, Spanish Revivals, Adobe revivals. It is a total buffet of Art!. Here is some information I have collected just of the Internet!

This is a Craftsmen Style Bungalow


Unfortunately, many folks know Anaheim only as the home of Disneyland. However, the town has a distinguished architectural history and is one of the earliest and best-preserved collections of Arts & Crafts bungalows in Southern California. Resident Phyllis Mueller gives us this short history of the colony: Anaheim was founded as a colony in 1857 when George Hansen purchased 1,165 acres of land on behalf of the Los Angeles Vineyard Society for the purpose of subdividing the land into vineyards and house lots. Its original boundaries were North, East, South, and West Streets. Anaheim’s wine industry flourished...

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