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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
" nothing left but stark fingers reaching for the sky."
Don't put away your hiking boots just yet odinthor.
We could visit the Oak of the Golden Dream , Placerita Canyon,Los Angeles County.
Photograph taken APRIL 13, 1937
LAPL
FISHWRAP
6 MILES EAST OF NEWHALL
FISHWRAP 1937
INSPECTING THE HOLE
MARCH 9, 1954
Valley Times Collection
The hole in the Oak of Golden Dream is inspected by Mrs. Irene McKibben, member of Native Daughters of Golden West. MARCH 9, 1954
ONE LAST NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
SCV HISTORY
odinthor....this Oak is still ALIVE!
flickr
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Hurrah! Thanks,
e_r! Though I knew of the related incidents and people, I hadn't heard of the oak. It's really something to think of these witnesses to history, still living, still there for us to "look them in the eye."
OK, now I'm happy . . .
