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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
1143 N. Jackson St., Glendale, 2011
Mildred's palm has really grown tall...
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That's a classic (and historic) Canary Island palm. Someone should take a nice current picture of that house with the palm in all its glory. (hinthint sopas_ej)
Am I alone in
my palm fetish here? (That's a rhetorical question – I know I'm not alone.)
I love the pictures in this thread where you can see the juvenile palm and then the exact same tree 70 years later! I'm also fascinated how palms frequently seem to LONG outlive the structures around them. It's like people will go to great lengths to preserve a tree and yet care nothing about the building it once decorated. I'm not complaining, obviously – the palms are a precious legacy in their own right – but it is interesting to me how these trees have frequently gotten a fairer chance at survival than the buildings (or the people) around them.
-Scott