Southern California; . / --_ ( V-. Park occupies a magnificentsite, and when improved prom-ises to become one of the greatparks of the countr}^ while apublic-spirited citizen has pre-sented to the city a tract ofthree thousand acres, situateda mile north of town, and ad-mirably located for use as abotanical experiment station. There are other smaller parks about town which willone day be connected into one great system by a line ofboulevards. The Plaza is of special interest from thehistoric associations centering there. Facing it on thewest is the old Spanish church built during the missionda
Southern California; . / --_ ( V-. Park occupies a magnificentsite, and when improved prom-ises to become one of the greatparks of the countr}^ while apublic-spirited citizen has pre-sented to the city a tract ofthree thousand acres, situateda mile north of town, and ad-mirably located for use as abotanical experiment station. There are other smaller parks about town which willone day be connected into one great system by a line ofboulevards. The Plaza is of special interest from thehistoric associations centering there. Facing it on thewest is the old Spanish church built during the missiondays, and on the east and north many old adobes whichhave been made over for the occupanc}- of the people have an individuality which impressesitself at once upon all their surroundings. It may beonly a vertical sign in Chinese characters, or a paperlantern hung over a doorway that gives the orientalcolor to a neighborhood, but it is unmistakable. In the n - -»- Chinese quarter of Los Angeles are joss houses resplen-
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