July 16, 1889: the Los Angeles Times uses drawings to illustrate reports on the centennial celebration of Bastille Day in Los Angeles.

The streets through which the procession was to pass had been handsomely decorated, those in the French quarter being especially elaborate, and almost every house had the stars and strips and the tri-color of France displayed side by side.At the corner of Aliso and Alameda streets, from which point the procession was to start, a large banner was suspended across the street, bearing the inscription “Centennaire Republique Francaise, 1789-1889, Liberte.”