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Desert Scenes of California, The Land of Enchantment, by Western Publishing & Novelty Co. of Los Angeles
From the folder: “The dictionary tells us that the desert is “a region wholly or approximately without vegetation” and that “such regions are rainless, usually sandy, and commonly not habitable”.
This is far from being a correct description of the desert, so well known for its turquoise skies, far horizons, vast reaches of level mesas, blue veiled mountains with tinted peaks, purple shadowed canyons, flaming sunsets, starlit nights, the gentle majesty of the morning and the golden glory of the sunfilled day…
…Visitors who seek a motor trip filled with hours of endless beauty and romance will fin the vast waste and desolation of the desert soon spinning an inescapable web of fascination about them, turning the first impression gained into one of charm and beauty.
Los Angeles, California © C. T. & Co., Western Publishing & Novelty.
“Los Angeles, or to give the sonorous Spanish title ‘Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles’ (Our Lady the Queen of the Angels), is indeed the wonder city of the United States.
“A small Spanish settlement founded in 1781, and for the first century had slow growth, being a pueblo of but a few hundred inhabitants. From this modest beginning Los Angeles increased to 1500 in 1847, and has developed into the largest city on the Pacific Coast and fifth in population in the United States…
“Los Angeles Harbor (San Pedro) distributes more lumber than any port in the world and here is found mammoth warehouses, factories, ship building plants, and numerous fish canneries, and is also the base for the Pacific Fleet…
“It is here that nature, in a most gracious mood, parceled together the choices of her handiwork that appeals to humans, and made Los Angeles and vicinity the favorite all-year-round playground of the nation.”
