sears roebuck began to deliver to the rural areas, and, therefore, that business sort of came to an end. so they started opening stores and begin to sell. >> with a strong muslims at that time? >> well -- >> or more of a secular? >> they were mostly rural people. to me, the first arabs to come for christians. and then 10 years later muslims begin to come because basically some these arab christians would go back, they would have money, they would build these houses with red tiled roads and able to see they made money in america. so they were reluctant at first coming. we know of one record, one guy was getting on the ship and he asked if there were mosques in america and they said no, so he got out. so the others came and they were basically migrant labor. they came in to make money and go back to they didn't come to settle. >> went with the other times in u.s. history when waves of muslims came to the state's? >> well, some came after world war i, there's a short period of time, but by 1924 the united states, only 100 people from the middle east could come to the united states per year

it wasn't a sears roebuck catalog or a montgomery ward catalog. we still don't know the identification of the manufacturer of this wonderful house. but we know that it was a kit house. he actually took his horse and buggy and drove it to the train station. there's actually a section of the train still there on imperial highway that you can see. frank nixon brought these boxes and crates back to this yorba linda site and built this wonderful house. as you can see, as i mentioned to yourks it's never been moved. as you look around to seerks the mill house, nixon family came to this area to raise a family. so 300 orange trees and 300 lemon trees were planted by frank nixon, but they did struggle financially. and hannah nixon would actually walk to a packinghouse. there was two packinghouses here in yorba linda. and to help with the income, she actually would go back lemons. she would walk over there. remember, there was no concrete and there was no cement. it was lots of dirt, lots of mud sometimes, but she would walk there and put lemons into a crat

rosenwald was at that time the newly rich president of sears roebuck. his parents were jewish immigrants from germany. he had been born in springfield illinois where his father ran a small clothing store. he grew up there, learned that closing trade from his uncle's in new york and then returned to chicago to start his own business. in 1895, the same year as booker t. washington had his opportunity, rosenwald was invited to buy into a small unknown mail-order company called sears roebuck which proved to be a very sound investment. he just blooming at the time. as you all probably know, sold everything from your buddy rate to your tombstone. you could buy a house from sears. so very wealthy. bought himself a big house, took a trip to europe and started looking around for philanthropic uses for his money. he always said that his money had come to him as mustard good luck as through his own merit. he felt a certain responsibility to be a steward of it and to use it to benefit others. he started with the jewish philanthropies in the chicago community. when

if your tires had been getting aged and you thought oh, next week, i will run down to sears roebuck and get a new set of tires, you were out of luck. the only way you can could get another set of tires was to go before the government tire board and prove that you had a reason it was essential for getting new tires. radios, bicycles, clocks -- even clocks, the common american could not even purchase them after the spring of 1942. all those mechanisms were used in the war effort. most americans supported the sudden changes. that was, of course, with a wave of patriotism that swept through. everyone wanted to win the war. many people had fighting men overseas. the way in which the war had begun with japan bombing pearl harbor before the declaration of war was given to the secretary of war and secretary of state in washington dc -- that angered everyone. but what did the government do to suddenly help the american economy in the war of emergency? it did what it did a lot of the time. it began regulating everything. the federal war production board took control of the allocation of almost al

if your tires had been getting aged and you thought oh, next week, i will run down to sears roebuck and get a new set of tires, you were out of luck. the only way you can could get another set of tires was to go before the government tire board and prove that you had a reason it was essential for getting new tires. radios, bicycles, clocks -- even clocks, the common american could not even purchase them after the spring of 1942. all those mechanisms were used in the war effort. most americans supported the sudden changes. that was, of course, with a wave of patriotism that swept through. everyone wanted to win the war. many people had fighting men overseas. the way in which the war had begun with japan bombing pearl harbor before the declaration of war was given to the secretary of war and secretary of state in washington dc -- that angered everyone. but what did the government do to suddenly help the american economy in the war of emergency? it did what it did a lot of the time. it began regulating everything. the federal war production board took control of the allocation of almost al