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Title: 5 special tours & 3 mid-winter tours under escort to California
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: Boston : Raymond & Whitcomb's Tours
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ejuvenated city,— a quaint reminder of other days.The Angelus, Loomis Brothers, proprietors ; the Van Nuys, Main street, Milo M.Potter, proprietor; The Hayward, H. C. Fryman, manager; The Westminster, F. O.Johnson, manager; and The Alexandria, are among the largest and most admirablyconducted hotels. Pasadena, Echo Mountain and Wilsons Peak. Pasadena, the Crown of the Valley, one of the loveliest towns on the PacificCoast, is situated in the northwest corner of the San Gabriel Valley, at the base ofthe Sierra Madre mountains. It is 900 feet above the sea, which is twenty-five milesdistant, and about nine miles from Los Angeles. Although a place of gardens, vine-yards and groves, it enjoys every advantage of larger cities, including water-works,seventy-five miles of avenues and drives, an excellent street railway system, a com-prehensive system of sewerage, electric lights, a fine public library, numerouschurches and public schools, enterprising newspapers, banks, business houses and
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THE POTTER, SANTA BARBARA, CAL. several steam railways. Among the public houses in Pasadena is Hotel Green,under the efficient management of J. H. Holmes, a man who, by unremitting careand devotion to the welfare of his guests, has won an enviable place in the esteem ofthousands of patrons. Recent additions to the house have greatly increased itscapacity and architectural beauty. Many pleasant little excursions may be taken from Los Angeles or Pasadena topoints of interest in the vicinity. One of these is the ascent of Echo Mountain bythe Pacific Electric Railway. This journey affords superb views of Pasadena, LosAngeles, the entire valley, and far out to sea. Wilsons Peak, reached by a finemountain trail, is another resort that gives Pasadena visitors opportunities for novelexperiences, magnificent views, and a taste of mountain camp, cottage or hotel life. Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is situated under the shelter of the Santa Ynez Mountains, and infront is a magnificent ocean beach

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