Architect and engineer . me a second Hollywood in the respect might well be a city of Phoenicia or ofthat it would become a center of motion Spain, so alluring is its loveliness August, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, 35 Indeed, upon my second visit I was showna drawing of a proposed improvement ofa very beautiful section of the old drawing of the way that this part ofthe Rancho would be when improved. Notknowing what the drawing portrayed, Iwas asked what I thought it might be. AndI said, Well, this spot is very familiar tome. It is a place on the island of Mallorca,in the heart of the


Architect and engineer . me a second Hollywood in the respect might well be a city of Phoenicia or ofthat it would become a center of motion Spain, so alluring is its loveliness August, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, 35 Indeed, upon my second visit I was showna drawing of a proposed improvement ofa very beautiful section of the old drawing of the way that this part ofthe Rancho would be when improved. Notknowing what the drawing portrayed, Iwas asked what I thought it might be. AndI said, Well, this spot is very familiar tome. It is a place on the island of Mallorca,in the heart of the Mediterranean, which humbler sort. In other words, though theman of boundless wealth can satisfy the ex-pression of his desires by the expenditureof money in Westwood Village, there isstill place and opportunity for the man ofless plethoric bank account. Only one thing is always and forever in-sisted upon, namely, that whatever is done,be it ever so pretentious or ever so humble,the one condition insisted upon is MAIN BOULEVARD, WESTWOOD \GE, CALIFORNIA I saw when I had a loan from God andhad gone wandering in ships and cara-vans. This little incident illustrates betterthan any words of mine could possibly con-vey the deft touch and the scrupulous carewith which the Janss people are makingWestwood Village an outstanding wonderin a world of wonders. And the great thing about it all to mymind is that while one will behold in West-wood Village stately homes and greatmarts of commerce that have called forththe investment of vast sums of money, thereis still openings left for homes of the No man can invade Westwood Village anddefy beauty. V^ith beauty as its very religion, how log-ical it then seems that Westwood Hills hasalready become, and is destined to becomestill more so, the educational center ofCalifornia of the South. In the finest set-ting in the world Learning has alreadylighted there her torch—a torch that willburn throughout the years to come as abeacon


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