Rodeo’s story is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Rodeo. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Rodeo is located on tracts of land that were purchased by ranchers and businessmen John and Patrick Tormey from the Ygnacio Martinez Rancho El Pinole estate in 1865 and 1867.
In partnership with the Union Stockyard Co. in 1890, Patrick Tormey (for whom the nearby town of Tormey is named) sold some of the land to them and began to lay out plans and make large investments for the stockyard facilities for a meatpacking and canning industry. Eventually, streets were graded and lots were prepared for homesteads, creating the town of Rodeo.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Rodeo’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rodeo’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewSan Francisco Zephyr near Rodeo, …, 1972: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Rodeo, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as San Francisco Zephyr near Rodeo, August 1972 (1972) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.