A few houses are on side streets. Each place has a garden patch. The one-story dwellings are built of adobe or wood and the newer houses are faced with stucco. While the farming lands lie outside the village, at virtually every homestead is a windmill that pumps water for household use and for the domestic animals and gardens. Much of the agricultural land consists of vineyards.
Some wheat is raised and cheese is made for market.
There is neither a hotel nor a restaurant, nor is there a cantina in the village. A traveler who is hungry or who is overtaken by night- fall in Guadalupe, would be dependent upon the hospitality of householders for food and lodging. The wants of these people are few and they are supplied to a remarkable extent by the farms they cultivate. The women cling to the Russian type of bread, which they bake in large round loaves in ovens made of brick. Some of the ovens are outdoors, others inside the houses.