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Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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interestingdrives than those which may be taken along the broad tree-lined avenues of Pasa-dena. Within spacious enclosures on each hand may be seen elegant villa resi-dences or splendid mansions surrounded by ornamental grounds of the greatestbeauty. Palm trees, magnolias, century plants, fig trees, ancient live oaks, sur-vivals of the days when this was only grazing ground for flocks and herds, pepper PASADENA. An Orchard City.Beautiful for Situation. A Delightful Health and Pleasure Resort. TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 197 trees, blue gums and an infinite variety of ornamental shrubbery, make thesedrives entirely novel, interesting and charming. The city obtains an abundantsupply of water from the Arroyo Seco Canon and the results of irrigation confrontone in the wonderful groves of citrus and deciduous trees. Pasadena has a rounddozen of churches, representing an expenditure of nearly half a million dollars. Ithas business blocks of metropolitan proportions, spacious and elegant theatres,
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NEAR SAN GABRIEL AND PASADENA. four banks, a score of hotels, large manufacturing establishments, canning factories,horse car lines, telephone system, electric lights,— in short, all of the modern con.veniences. As a place of residence we know of no more charming city thanPasadena, whose fifteen thousand inhabitants have every reason to congratulatethemselves that their lines have fallen in such pleaeant places. The wonderful cli-mate of Pasadena is one of its chief attractions. Tourists who arrive in November 198 OVER THE RANGE or October are constantly on the watch for winter. Finally a rain storm comes,drenching the earth, and a few weeks later the ground the length and breadth ofthe land is carpeted with flowers, form succeeding form, until color and variety,tint and hue, seem to have run riot ; by this token you may know that the winterhas come. The tops of the Sierras are clothed with snow, so near that you cansee the snow blown high in air by the mountains blizzard, so near t

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