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Los Angeles Section Page 515 Route 491
Route 491—Los Angeles to Calabasas, Cal. 32.9 m.
Reverse Route 492.
Via Lankershim and Van Nuys. Macadam and concrete all the way.
A very good option to Routes 391 and 493.
,— .mileage-.nut,t«u i-—
Distance For thig and other exitg gee city Map, p age 426.
Total Between
Mileage > Points
o.o
0.0 0.0 LOS ANGELES, Broadway & 7th St. Go northeast with trolley
:
on Broadway. Thru tunnel 1.0.
1.2 Irregular 4-corners just beyond tunnel; turn left onto Sunset
1.2 1.2
0.7 5-corners; bear right with one line of trolley onto Sunset
1.9 0.7
Blvd., passing hospital on right.
3.4 Fork; keep right onto Hollywood Blvd.
5.3 3.4 still on Hollywooc
0.4
5.7 0.4 Irregular 4-corners; bear left with trolley
2.2 Hollywood * Hollywood Blvd. & Cahuenga Ave., bank on left.
GARAGES— Hollywood Mission Garage, 1728 Highland Ave., near Ho >
7.9 2.2
wood Blvd.
Turn right away from trolley onto Cahuenga Ave.
0.5
For option thru Hollywood, keep ahead on Hirllywood Blvd., here
mUe. and turn right onto Highland Ave., rejoining route
given at mileage 8.8. , .
8.2 0.3 5-corners ; bear right—still on Cahuenga Ave.
streets are planted with peppers and acacias
* Hollywood, Cal. (pop. 15,000, alt. 1,500 ft.), a and the flame tree brought here from the An-
populous suburb of Los Angeles, incorporated tipodes. Roadways are lined with glossy mag-
situated among the Ca-
within the city, nolias and grounds are brilliant With poinset-
is
huenga foothills. Against the hillside the Strawberries are ripe here
turrets of San Souci castle and Glengarry tia and roses. until Christmas.’ Paul de
“from Christmas
stand out prominently. These are both the Longpre, the world’s greatest painter of flow-
possessions of a wealthy owner who has filled 1911. In the
them with tapestries, pictures, carvings and ers, lived here until his death in
country near Hollywood forty film-play pro-
rare glass. Hollywood is in the vicinity of ducing companies have extensive plants.
the oil belt but is fragrafit with flowers. Its
(San Juan Capistrano, Points of Interest, Cont d.)
in a bewildering riot of lines and colors, and
that the padres had surrendered all tem- roof tiles showing their red above the cream
poralities. In 1846 the population, which had of the time- stained walls and against the
been 1,361, had dwindled to 113 souls. In exquisite blue of the sky, make a picture of
February, 1896, the Landmarks Club of Cali- never-to-be-forgotten beauty. The church,
fornia secured a lease of San Juan Capistrano, still to be seen, was
including all the buildings in need of care, the ruins of which are It is in the
with the necessary ground and rights of way, designed by Father Gorgonio. is 180 feet long
form of a Roman cross and
and a preference to the club as purchaser in and 90 feet wide, with an arched roof that was
case the property should ever be for sale, and
work was undertaken under the direction of a series of seven domes or bovedas, and a bell
Mr. R. Egan, who for many years had made tower 120 feet high, surmounted by a gilded
personal efforts toward the preservation of cock. From the dome over the transept rose
of the large square mission
the mission. The club has restored the old a narrow spire The patio, or padre s gar-
adobe church, the first one built at the mis- tiles or ladrillos.
sion and the one used after the destruction den, is still a lovely spot enclosed by a cloister
Until about
1812. The garlanded with flower and vine.
of the church by the earthquake in one of the best of the
cloisters and kitchen have been reroofed and 1895 San Juan had
braced and various preservative repairs car- mission libraries. It consisted chiefly of well-
of divinity,
ried out. Mass is still celebrated in “Serra s known Latin and Spanish books tied with
Chapel,” as the old church restored by the bound in sheepskin or parchment, The
Landmarks Club is called. In the campanario leather thongs or having metal clasps.
on the northeast corner of the church of 1797 first page of the record of marriages was writ-
ten and signed by Junipero Serra. A striking
hang four bronze bells rung by ropes at- of the industrial enterprises of the
tached to the clappers. The large ones are evidence is presented in the ruins of the aque-
tolled for the death of adults and the small padres
ones for the passing of little children. ducts or flumes, some of brick, others of
Whoever sees the ruins of San Juan holds wood, supported across ravines, which con
them ever after in lustrous memory. Grilled veyed the water for irrigating the 80 acres of
orchard, vineyard and garden which was once
windows, quaint latticed chimney, irregular wall. Several rem-
arches, bits of carving in the stone capitals surrounded by an adobe still be seen
of these aqueducts may
of pilaster, and .above wide wooden doors, owl- nants reservoirs,
haunted colonnades of crumbling arches, clus- in the village, and there remain
tered pillars with broken filletings, crumbling cisterns and zanjzas of brick, stone and ce-
walls and floors adorned by vines and flowers ment located at advantageous points.