Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-18
IDEAL HOMES ON
GENTLE SLOPES
PASADENA HEIGHTS AND ITS
MAGNIFICENT VIEWS
Has Bearing Orange, Lemon and Peach
Trees, Muscat Grapes, Mountain
Water and Hgh-CIass
Improvements

The Crown of the Valley is a very
occupies the position and affords all the
advantages that the title implies. But
to see the real crown of the crown go
gradually on up the gentle slo-es just
beyond the city limits on the northeast,
q few blocks from the North Lake ave-
nue. street cars and there view Pasa-
dena Heights. You will not realize that
you have been ascending until you
look around you. Then you will, Your
eye will take in a most magnificent
sweep to the east south and west, with
rolling hills and verdant wales, tower
ing peaks and snowy sentinelS in the
distance, with grand old ocean and its
shimmering sheen at the horizons rim.
Close around you are orange groves
with their wealth of gold, lemon, fig,
peach and other trees, fields of emerald
green of growing grain, groves Of blue
gum, eucalyptus and live oaks, old
oaks with 100 feet of spread, muscat
vineyards in their prime and an indie
pendent water system to give life and
flavor to them all.
This is the Pasadena Heights district,
and after seeing it you will not wonder
that sagacious Los Angeles capitalists
saw its possibilities and are eXpending
a fortune developing, improving and
identifying it. It's owners, eX-United
States Senator S. w. Dorsey and his
associates, are stopping at no expense
in making 1t one of the most desirable
home places in all of beautiful Califor-
mia. They are having the many miles
of new streets graded and Oiled parked
and sidewalked, among them being the
famous Orange Grove avenue, which
is a magnificent boulevard 120 feet
wide. There are many other wide
boulevards and they will be artistically
parked along the center their entire
length. Thousands of trees are going
TO line these streets and the thirty
handsome and massive stone columns
that you see at the entrances to the
tract are going TO be surmounted by
ornamental groups of electric lights
Work is being pushed ahead very
fast, for it is under the general man
agement of Wilbur O. Dow, who is a
practical and energetic man.
Less than an hours ride on one OF
the largest finest and fastest electric
cars in the world takes you from Los
Angeles 10 Pasadena Heights, and the
sights you see are well worth the trip
1t is sunshiny spot. with a protected
northern background, and a cheerful
exposure to the east, south and west
q place where the first warm rays Of
the morning will come to kiss the dews
from the flower, and the afternoons OF
the summer will be freshened by
ocean air waited in from where the
cooling breezes blow.
Standing on any part of Pasadena
Heights you view from nearby the
full grandeur and sweep of the old
Sierra Madre range, with Mount VIII
son and Mount Lowe towering aloft
and seeming so close that you can al
most reach out and touch the trails
that wind up and on towards theit
SUBMITS. Eaton canyon and Other
romantic spots are not far from Won.
and in the near future a scenic railway
Will run along the insteps OF these
mountains, from Pasadena Heights IL
kinneloa and on to the towering peaks