Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-31
HIGHLAND PARK,
"THE IDEAL SUBURB"


there in choice and desirable spots, at
the beginnings of things, selecting
slightly places with an eye to comfort
and beauty. After a time other set
tiers come and locate in the between"
places closer to the heart of the city,
until finally it is all one, only that the
original locations retain always the dis
tinct characters which they had at
first and which sets them apart as one
individual is set apart from another
by his character and personal traits.
Among the many units and entities
that go to make up the wonderful city
of Los Angeles, as it is today, the
neighborhood known as Highland Park
is among the most beautiful, cultured
prosperous and enterprising of them
all. 1t is usually referred to as tine
ideal suburb" with good reason 1t is
located in a lovely park-like elevated
valley, about midway between the
heart of Los Angeles and the world
famed city of Pasadena.
While lying well out, and high above
the city's fog and smoke and dust, 1t
is still within the scent carfare limit,
and enjoys rapid and regular service
on its several first class electric lines
into every part of the city, and one of
which is a main line from the city OF
Pasadena, and traverses the avenue OF
that name.
Pasadena avenue, now paved with
asphalt is the principal thoroughfare
between the cities of Los Angeles and
Pasadena and this lively and beautiful
suburb, Highland Park, is spreading
rapidly and widely each way from it,
giving every promise of having a pop
ulation of 10000 to 10000 within a very
few years.
Its beautifully picturesque scenery,
both in and surrounding it; it's sew
eral hundred feet elevation its easy
accessibility from the city and all
points, with rapid transit and scent
fares; its abundant and pure water
supply-best in Los Angeles; its fine
educational advantages-high class
public schools, supplemented by Occi-
dental college and the Methodist semi
nary nearby at Hermon, and its other
attractive features, combine to make
this such a desirable residence section
that it is drawing people, including
many of wealth and refinement, from
not only the east, north and middle
west, but many from Los Angeles it.
self. to make their homes in this in
Viting locality.
Beyond a doubt more people who
come to visit Southern California travel
between Los Angeles and Pasadena
than on any other thoroughfare. AS
a consequence they invariably get
view of Highland Park and thus form
their impressions of what this part
of the world has come to be since the
Yankee invasion. AS the traveller rides
along Pasadena avenue, the great
boulevard alive with automobiles car
riages and electric cars, he opens his
eyes in wonder and admiration at
Highland Park. He sees beautiful
homes, soft green, wel-kept lawns;
flowers in endless variety, prosperous,
happy people, noted for their energy,
enterprise and their devotion to clean
and righteous civic government.
Highland Park is an educational CEN
ter, being the seat of Occidental col
lege and other schools. But it also
has its own bank. postoffice, and
newspaper (the Highland Park Herald)
and its own business institutions, and
is in every way a city within itself.
Cut out from Los Angeles entirely,
Highland Park would still be a city
and a place of Importance on the map.
A great variety of scenery unsur-
passed for beauty in the world, has
been bestowed on Highland Park. The
adjacent mountains, the Arroyo Seco,
soon to be acquired by the cities of
Los Angeles and Pasadena as a great
natural park from the city to the
mountains, and the sweep of San Ga
briel valley-all combine to make the
spot ideal. Within it's limits are groves
of ancient sycamores, placed there by
nature a hundred years ago, and in ad-
dition to these the careful and loving
hand of man has added other trees to
delight the eye and make beautiful the
landscape.