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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r a swim in the suit. Ocean Park, which joins Santa Monicaon the south, is built up with neat cottagesfor a couple of miles along the beach, w it ha cement walk 4 miles long and 30 feet wide. Still further south, Venice, which canbe reached from Los Angeles in aboutthirty minutes, is a most unique andattractive resort. With its canals, tinepiers, great surf, and bath-house, it is oneof Southern Californias most popularbeaches. rising out of the haze 20 miles out fromLos Angeles harbor. The island is widelyknown as the greatest big game fishingresort in the world. Santa Catalina is anexceedingly picturesque mountainousisland, 23 miles long and about 4 mileswide. It is reached by steamers from eitherLong Beach or San Pedro. The watershere are so clear that, through the glassbottoms of specially fitted boats makingregular trips, wonderful submarine scenesma\ be admired. With the fish, large andsmall, swimming about in the forests ofkelp, and darting here and there at great 44 Los Angeles
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Skyline from Pershing Square. depths, and with star-fish, sea anemonesand other forms of sea life in a bewilderingwealth of color and action, one gets apicture never to be forgotten. Here, too,are to be caught the huge sea bass, thegreat fighting tuna, and the sword fish,for which the ambitious sportsman angleswith rod and tackle of such light weightas to make the successful landing of alarge fish appear absolutely impossible.The bathing at Catalina is unexcelledanywhere in the world; and there are thenight trips to sea with the search lightsrevealing myriads of flying fish in midair.The hotel accommodations are of the best;and a week will be found all too short tostay on this wonderful island. The Sierra Madre, or Mother Range,the foothills of which are about 10 milesfrom Los Angeles, is a romantic andinteresting range of mountains. Along thisrange are numbers of interesting canyons.The two most popular peaks in the SierraMadre are Mount Wilson and MountI owe. The former is reached b

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