Feb. 3, 1939: Nuestro Pueblo, by Joe Seewerker with illustrations by Charles Owens, was one of my favorite discoveries in The Times. The columns were collected and published in a book that is also one of my favorites. It’s a bit hard to find but worth the search..

This column originally appeared in the L.A. Times in 1939 and was republished on latimes.com in 2009. It is available via Archive.org.