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Route 685 Page 688 Salt Lake City-
Straight thru along RR. Avoid right-hand road 78.4. Pass
Pacoima Sta. on left 79.8.
Right at 78.4 is Route 384 to Ventura.
Avoid right-hand diagonal road at gas sta. 82.8.
Diagonally right at 82.8 is Route 371 to Los Angeles via Lankershlm
and Hollywood.
Bear left across RR 87.3.
87.6 9.4 End of road; turn right with pavement.
88.7 1.1 Burbank.* Straight thru.
SERVICE STA.— United States Tire Sales & Service Depots located here.
Pass W. Glendale Sta. on right 91.6. Avoid left-hand diagonal
road 92.3.
92.7 4.0 End of road; turn left away from RR.
92.9 0.2 End of road; turn right. Thru Tropico 93.5. Cross trolley
93.9. Bear right with trolley onto San Fernando Blvd. 95.6.
Cross RRs 97.6-97.7—now on Avenue 20.
Los Angeles City Map, page 426; Points of Interest, page 425.
98.0 5.1 Pasadena Ave. ; meeting cross-trolley, turn right.
98.2 0.2 End of street; turn right with branch trolley across concrete
bridge over Los Angeles river onto N. Broadway. Thru tun-
nel 99.6.
100.8 2.6 LOS ANGELES, Broadway & 7th St.
HOTELS— Hotel Hayward, Spring St. at 6th.
Hotel Lankershlm, Broadway at 7th.
Hotel Stillwell, Between 8th & 9th on Grand Ave.
Hotel Trinity, Grand Avg. & 9th.
GARAGES—Don Lee Cadillac Agency & Garage.
P. E. Garage, 6th & Los Angeles Sts.
Route 685—Mojave to Bakersfield, Cal.—66.9 m.
Reverse Route 368.
haChapi ' . Mos y raded dirt and gravel highway. Last 18 miles macadam
MiLEA?| Paving. ^ Road leads over Tehachapi pass.
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Distant There are some steep grades.
Total Between ^ 0 °™ ^?- |ave Tehachapi there is a good graded dirt and gravel high-
Mlleage Point. way Wlth easy rolling grades.
0.0 0.0 MOJAVE, sta. on left. Go west along Main St. Thru irregu-
lar 4-corners 0.3. Main St. merges onto graded gravel and
dirt county highway. Cross switch 0.7. Easy rolling grades
all the way to Tehachapi. Cross bridge 5.0.
11.5 11.5 Fork; bear right with highway. Cross RR 15.7 and bear right
with road just beyond. Thru Monolith 16.0.
16.3 4.8 Fork; bear left with highway along RR.
Avoid left-hand
road 18.3.
This is Oak creek cut-off to Willow Springs.
Cross switches 18.6-18.8.
20.2 3.9 Tehachapi, sta. on right (business district over to left).
Straight thru along RR.
•Burbank, Cal. (pop. 2,000, alt. 555 ft.), is Burbank, who is said to have no relationship
situated eleven miles northwest of Los An-
to Luther, sold this land in 1887 to the Provi-
geles and nearly in the center of the San dencia Land and Water
Fernando valley. Co., which in turn
It occupies a gentle slope
subdivided the ranch into a townsite.
at the base of the Verdugo mountains, the
South of Burbank in the little valley at the
highest peak directly back of the city northeast foot of Cahuenga Park is Universal
having an elevation of 3,000 feet above City, the only city in the world built solely
sea level and 1,100 feet elevation at the base
for the production of moving picture films.
of the mountain, dropping to about a
four At West Glendale, four miles from Burbank,
per cent grade to the valley’s
floor. An ex-
is Eagle Rock, an old landmark. The “eagle”
tensive panoramic view
is enjoyed from this
on the side of the rock is caused by shadows
locality.
cast by overhanging rocks.
Luther Burbank, the world famous plant An army water poisoner who was during
wizard of Santa Rosa, has never had any the late war seen climbing one of the high
connection with Burbank. /He, like hun- water tanks in an army camp “somewhere in
dreds of thousands,
is familiar with the lit- America” was shot and killed by Otto Kirby,
tle city and its
fertile resources, but in 1878
private, who was serving as night picket, after
Burbank was extensively populated by sheep.
he had challenged the German spy twice with-
It comprised the historic Burbank ranch.
Six out avail. Young Kirby is the son of Mrs.
families made their living ranching. David F. B. Kirby and he is from Burbank.