Identifier: vacationersstory685macl (find matches)
Title: The vacationers' story of their trip from east to west and home again
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacLaury, Fannie MacLaury, Mattie
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: Delhi, N.Y. : Express Printery
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ytrolley again to the rustic mountain-house near the summit.During the ascent the view was superb. Los Angeles andPasadena with big stretches of valley lay far beneath us, aboveand below curving sections of our track could be seen, andabout us were yawning chasms and wild mountain peaks.From Inspiration Point, beyond the mountain house, the oceanwas visible. On the trolley ride back to Los Angeles wepassed Oneonta park, the property of a millionaire, CharlesN. Huntington, and named for Oneonta, N. Y., his formerhome. We were told that over forty millionaires reside inPasadena. There are many popular beaches out from Los Angeles—Venice, fashioned after Italys canal city; Long Beach, Moon-stone Beach, where many moon-stones are washed ashore; andSanta Catalina Island. We took the latter trip, going by trol-ley to San Pedro, from there by steamer to Avalon, the land-ing. The two hours ride on the heaving bosom of the Pacificcaused some of the passengers to heave up their breakfast, but
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Sugar-Loaf Rocks at Catalina Island, Pacific Ocean. we didnt follow the fashion in this respect. The island isrocky and mountainous, 22 miles long and 7 wide. Near thelanding the two immense su^arloaf rocks rise out of thewater. Divers were giving exhibitions of their skill and neverfailed to recover the coin thrown into the water by steamerpassengers. Bathing costumes were for rent and some tour-ists were soon in the swim. A trip in the glass-bottomedboat over the submarine gardens, the largest and finest in theworld, was most novel and enjoyable. The crystal-clear watershowed all the wonders of the deep—blue, gold and spottedfishes, rainbow-hued abalone shells, shoals of uncanned sar-dines, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea grass which the guidecalled alfalfa, a curious large-leafed plant with white berries,water evergreens and fern-like plants with a dainty purpleflower. Scarcely had we returned from Catalina when Cap-tain Ed gave the word, Forward march, and we reluctantlyleft our

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