Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 21 | Going Places and Seeing Things

GOING PLACES S I AND k kI li I SING SEEING THINGS t The Ca California ifo a S Sea CO Coast lt Is 1 ih the Promised Land for Motorist Pretty T Towns Magnificent l Scenery Almost Perfect Roads oads' LOS ANGELES Sc Scattered notes from rom n a a ramble about southern Ca California Call Cali l- l fornia V Ventura sparkling by the tho thoen en ca in inthe the b bright new now clothes that came with sudden oil n wc wealth i. i And rid with with w wealth alth and fine fino raiment ent o came caine came suI suitors tO r oS aplenty Fr From ni a pleasant sleepy little town by tho the seri sea Ventura Ventura Ven Ven- r tura Is suddenly I a city A city I- I climbing up Its I- I back back- backyard yard hills hulL J I b The Thc new e Malibu r road ad along th the ocean fr front nt i- i By m me meana- meana e a an n s sy of f t which one ino can now motor y Diego and the Mexican M border bordel to Santa Barbara with tho the surf sur beat beat- Ini nt the Uie ears ear's wheels The new new stretch linked Santa Monica a with Hueneme And iI a a lovelier I drive is t to b be found nowhere no up upon n this earth If It youre you're o oc one c. c of f those bose Who dIdn't ce America tJ first st at least ast see part of It last By the way they build their ro ro roads ds out here her herewith herewith with a a. small tax on on gasoline 1 motorist pays for his his' 1115 own I roads Bright Id Idea a In lIu Hueneme neme which once was was a rolling chaos of sand dunes and tumbleweed ve d. d with an old wharf at nt th the tho harbor d door lr you'll hear henr rumblings rumblings rum rum- bUngs of ot many things t to come You'll 11 hear ear that Henry Fords Ford's secretary sec see has started t work on an thousand and dollar summer summerhome home home- j Just st up the bone bench You'll hear rumblings of oC ofa a i new newFord Ford plant with a sea outlet Isa Is is' Isa a striking Instance of ot the dead coming to life The southern California b boosters of c course urs shrug th their Ir shoulders and remind you jou OU that an thing can happen down don here Riverside Is restful and peaceful a. a as th the tho l Interior Interior- terlo of OL i If ICE missions Somehow Somehow- thanks to nature and architecture it has hns managed to r re reflect re- re tl fleet e through the years its mission background Even EvenUs' EvenUs its Us' street are ajo mission bells bolls I And one enters the Mission Minion Inn almost on tiptoes tiptoes- I X have e seen seln strangers strange begin to to speak In that hal naif hM whisper they uise use when walkis walk walk- I is Ig into the tho Notre Dame the Sacre cre cree Coeur or an nh church for that mat ter And And If it you care caro to gel gt get safely lafety back to your O I wife v never ne go 10 Magnolia drive at sundown I 4 t ir 0 Theio's Theros a a. languorous rous rou's quality about tho tim perfume that's almost lethal And d a n. a. a broo brooding sense of ot the the- l lonely loney desert ot off against st the tho sky line s Redlands land rises to o the he pagodas pagodas' s' s of ot I Smiley Heights on one ono hand and to I I J rugged d crests o of mountains on tho other while caught in the valley val val- Icy ley between Is la tho the lush green vista Ista of or orange groves Here and ana spreading all abou is Is' u a a workshop l' l of nature aided by mans man's husband husband- ry The Industries which arc mans man's e can can ri be he found round down n th tho line at Sa San U B Bernardino where man mau has conquered de desert deceit H surroundings to to Je get natures nature's products to a a. market mark marketplace t place As As' As usual tIm the best of the th fruit goes goes' to Manhattan n and noel the h east eastern rn markets I asked for orange juice juico in two to orange belt bell soda fountains and an was was' given ghen queer looks How However cr the natives tell me meI 1 I sho should ld have tried the larger stores drug a Thanks Thanks' to a n system such as I I. have hi found fount nowhere else all ahl C California has has' become a It veritable carpet of or Bagdad i rr upon v which one 3 can be whisked a from tho tho warm beach sands to I 1 the tho m mountain 0 u n t. t n I n sn snows snow ws from th the L desert Ie er wastes wate to 4 tho the tropical tropic J green i of tho tilo palms palme m 8 I froth from th the sequoias I to the tho mountain lakes lakes lakes' and nd a all alI 11 fiiLL seemingly in th the twinkling of a aee an l' l eye ee NJ T Californians have less sense of space and distance than most mst And almost everybody has hag hasa haga a a car S Los Angeles old ol 1 town an and Chinatown chango change but ut slightly as asa i a a great city grows all about Th The quaint and c charming flavor or of or adobe still BUll clings to th ther plaza Section Sec Iee- tion with Its swarming Mexican life lite its chili chill parlors and Its Its' curbstone curb stone J loungers Chinatown breaks break's off ft from this point In a udd sudden n angle its fringe dotted by those three thirty a n la III carte Italian din ner resorts which in Greenwich Village como under the general h heading of Bohemian I 6 GILBERT SW SWAN Co right 1 1929 NJ NE Service