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Title: Official guide book of the Panama-California exposition, giving in detail, location and description of buildings, exhibits and concessions, with floor plans of the buildings and exterior views
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Panama-California Exposition Commission
Subjects: Panama-California Exposition (1915 : San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: (San Diego, National views company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s crossed by the folo bridge,(bridge of long life). The Japanese idea is that he who is able to cross thefolo bridge without slipping on its shapely-curved surface is assured of long life.Similarly, the shachi fish which forms one of the ornaments of the roof is asymbol of good luck as the fabulous shachi fish was supposed to devour alldevils. The folo bird over the main entrance is a symbol of immortality.The Japanese gardens join with the beautiful botanical gardens at the center ofwhich is one of the largest lath houses in the world, filled with a triumphantarray of the rarest tropical plants. There is a checking room in the pavilion, andfree tables are supplied those visitors who bring light luncheons to the grounds. The surrounding gardens constitute one of the beauty spots of the Expo-sition Beautiful. The adjoining buildings are reflected in the La Laguna de lasFlores (pool of flowers) and in the lagunita which lies between this large pooland the Botanical Building itself. (15)
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THE WASHINGTON BUILDING NEW MEXICO BUILDING MONTANA BUILDING Looking over the gardens is the bust of Fray Junipero Serra, the presi-dents general of the Spanish pardes and the most important figure in thebuilding up of the great chain of missions along El Camino Real, whichstretches from the first mission, San Diego de Alcala, to the mission of SanFrancisco de Solano. This bust forms a part of the tablet on the west side ofthe Varied Industries Building, almost at the end of the Botanical Building. One may walk around to the back of the Botanical Building and alongthe path overhanging the canyon, back of the main structure, and into LosJardines del Eucalyptus (gardens of the Eucalypt) which is back of the Cali-fornia State Building, or he can return to the Prado and walk along the frontof the Home Economy Building into the Plaza de Panama. At the north endof the plaza stands the great building of the Sacramento Valley; before it, thecanopy beneath which the Spanish band plays. Across

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