2. Campfire

In 1866, a pioneer settler encounters a mother and son camping in the park in front of her house, while L.A. officials take steps to beautify the park as a new centerpiece for their expanding city.

Campfire is based on the experiences of Mary E. Taft, a Los Angeles pioneer and first person to own a home facing Pershing Square, and a meeting of the Mayor and Common Council in 1870 that called for the first design modifications to the park.

*Although the city didn't come up with an official design for Pershing Square until the boom years of the 1880s, I borrowed its 1886 design as a visual aide for this episode...and to set the stage for the park's next major transformation in Working Men.