Remember When Goats and Cattle Dominated the City?

Only 30 years ago, Aliso Viejo was a 6,600-acre working ranch and home to goats, cattle, sheep and a variety of crops. Now nearly 48,000 residents live within city limits.

Images of America: Aliso Viejo, written by Bob Bunyan and the Aliso Viejo Community Foundation, contains stories, memories and more than 200 photographs of life within the city. On Saturday Bunyan, president of the foundation, will narrate a free Aliso Viejo history presentation.

Eric Hauber, who retired from Soka University and Bill Woollett, Aliso Viejo's first city manager, will also speak during the presentation, which follows the city's history from it's "earliest days of Native American inhabitants through the Spanish Ranchos to the formation of the 22,000-acre Moulton Ranch along with the purchase and development of Aliso Viejo by the Mission Viejo Company, cityhood in 2001," according to the city website.

Where/When: The Community Room at the ; Saturday, May 12 at 2 p.m.

Read more about Bunyan's book and the early days of Aliso Viejo here.