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Show For those seeking the early Spanish atmosohere there are two old Franciscan Missions, San Gabriel Archangel, founded Sept. 8, 1771 at San Gabriel, about a dozen miles from downtown Los Angeles, and San Fernando Rey de Espana, founded just twenty-six years later in San Fernando on the northwestern edge of the San Fernando Valley. Then there’s Olvera Street, block-long reproduction of the early California and Mexican scene, opening up onto the ancient Plaza and the Plaza Church (1781). Little Tokyo, Chinatown, the Mexicon Quarter, all add their flavor scene in Los Angeles, while at Terminal Island one can well imagine at some foreign fishina village, what with the immense fleet of vessels and the babel of a dozen tongues, The immense ports of Long Beach, Wilminaton and Beach, you is home San Pedro to the himself fishing are a beehive of activity with the coming and going of ships from practically every port in the world. Offshore may be seen sea-battered cargo vessels; long, low tankers and sleek ocean liners threading their way past the grim, gray giants of Uncle Sam’s Navy. great Pacific Fleet. Long know, port for a part of the Probably no other county in the world boasts the miles of wide, sunny beaches with which Los Angeles is so richly endowed. The aquatic sports of swimming, surf-bathing, aquaplaning and yachting offer delightful diversion to the California visitor, while there is no thrill on earth to equal deepsea sport fishing. If one tires of the mainland thrills, Catalina Island is but an hour, by luxurious pleasure ship, from the Port of Wilmington. The annual Tournament of Roses in Pasadena cach New Year's Day, followed by the Rose Bow! Football Game; the thrill of the huge los Ange les County Fair at Pomona each fall; the winter horse-racing season at beautiful Santa Anita and the summer season at Hollywood Park; big league baseball in the summer; football and ice-hockey in the fall and winter, and with every day tailored for the utmost enjoyment, Los Angeles, City of the Angels, located on El Camino Real, and all of Los Angeles County an integral eat the Mission Trails area, will give you a vacation to be long rememered. |