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Originally Posted by BifRayRock
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Can't let a pic of one of our Big Trees come up without adding the history:
http://www.santamonicalandmarks.com/landmk20.html
The Miramar Morton Bay Fig is the second largest in California. The champ is in Santa Barbara:
sbmerge.com
andysnow.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton...ra,_California)
It's just near the old Southern Pacific Station, also worth a look if you're ever up that way.
West LA has one too:
http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...-fig-tree.html
P.S.
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Originally Posted by BifRayRock
Santa Monica's Miramar
December 14, 1937
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Here's a "Before" of the old Senator John Pecival Jones home, "Miramar", pre-remodel, pre-hotel and pre-signage:
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Christmas at Miramar, 1897:
santamonicapatch
The front porch at Miramar:
http://digital.smpl.org/cdm4/item_vi...SOBOX=1&REC=14
Miramar was sold to King Gillette in 1912, used as a military academy and finally sold for use as a hotel in 1921.
see also:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3724
The Jones' neighbor at Wilshire and Ocean was Frederick Hastings Rindge and his wife May:
Fred E. Baston
This was the Rindge's main home from 1887 until 1904 when their Havard Blvd home was built. All three of their children were born at the Santa Monica house.
The Rindge's new home on Harvard Blvd, with its round, Norman-style towers, is reminiscent of Miramar. It may represent a slight case of 'keeping up with the Joneses'.
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