Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-08-22
Some Impressions
OF California
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pies loquats, kumquots, peaches and
magnificent large blue, yellow or red
plums and different varieties of figs.
This is a country where you never
need to worry about your radiator
freezing, summer or winter. The city
hydrants along the streets are differ
ent. No need to have them drained
as a protection from frost. A pipe
comes up out of the ground a short
distance and an ell is attached with
shut-off and you have a city hy-
drant.
The water pipe entering your house
does not need to be protected from
freezing. They come up out of the
ground on the outside of many houses
and enter where needed, rendering
the plumbing job much easier. Gas,
electric and water meters are placed
on the outside of the houses.
In Minnesota cities street car pas
sengers are protected while entering
or alighting from cars by the neces-
sity of street vehicles stopping while
they do so. Here no such regulation
prevails. The autOist stops or goes by
Just as he pleaseS. The autOist is
mindful, but the pedestrian must be
alert. The fare in Pasadena is seven
cents with eight tickets for fifty cents.
In Los Angeles you buy four for a
quarter with a refund slip given for
five cents, if supreme court decision
pending is adverse to the street car
company. The ordinary street cars in
Pasadena are small but run often.
Motorman acts as conductor as well.
An innovation in street car fares on
Sundays and holidays prevails on the
Pacific Electric lines which do the
principal interurban business. This
company has a track mileage of HOO
miles giving good service at about two
cents mile. On Sundays and holt
days you may buy passes, restricted,
or good over the entire system for the
day. A popular pass is the one cost
ing a dollar, good until two o'clock in
the morning the day following pur-
chase. 1t is not good over the entire
system but most of it. With this pass,
you may ride continuously during the
day anywhere within the restricted
territory. A pass good over the entire
system costs $3.50 and takes you up
on the cable cars into the mountains.
These passes make riding very cheap
and give you the feeling of privileg-
| ed character.
Within Los Angeles county there is
said to be 5000 miles of pavedssfoad
This promotes the use of bus lines
which are very popular. Bus lines in
the cities take the place of street cars
as extensions and on through streets
as well.
Such a place as this must be the
paradise of the Frigidaire salesman
as well as the iceman. The public
buildings both national and local are
very striking and attractive in design
They betoken a significant solidarity
Many of the streets in Los Angeles
are narrow and congested with traffic
while here in Pasadena the reverse is
true.
Arriving in Los Angeles on the
seventh of May, 1929, we went out to
San Gabriel, a suburb of imposing
dimensions containing about 5000 peo-
pie. We had engaged a little furnish
ed cottage, modern in every respect
yet far removed from the center OF
the rushing, surging activity of city
life. Still we were not far from a
main thoroughfare running through a
populous rural district, and here was
that constant turmoil up and down the
highway in vain endeavOr to get
somewhere sooner than someone else.
Having an opportunity to go to Pas
adena for a few months while the
owner of a residence was away we
| moved there. Pasadena is city of
elegant homes. There are two main
business streets, very long. Get off
of these and you find no stores or
business shops, but very fine resi-
dences surrounded by beautiful trees,
hedges, flowers, vines and shrubs. 1t
is evident that there are large num-
Der of people here of moderate means,
who own their homes. All are well
kept. 1t is called the Crown City, also
the City of Millionaires. Nevertheless
the poultry business flourishes. In
many back yards in Pasadena are
found diminutive chicken ranches. A
sign on the lawn advises that eggs or
broilers are for sale. 1t is also true
that rabbits, their production and
sale, play an important part in the
backyard industry. Rabbits are for