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SPONSORED BY THE KIWANIS CLUB
OF CHRISTMAS
TRE ES
5455-29-N
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OSSOM
rare
OD the “Mile of Christmas Trees” is a
LOSSOMING with ten thousand colored lights,
holiday spectacle, viewed annually by hundreds of
thousands of residents and visitors to Southern
California. Santa Rosa Avenue, stretching north
from the city limits of Pasadena through the heart
of the beautiful residential community of Altadena,
has long been famous for these giant deodar trees.
The Christmas lighting of the trees was sponsored
in 1920 by the Kiwanis Club of Pasadena. It has
since been carried out each year from Christmas
Eve to New Year's night, forming a fitting compli-
ment to the world-famous Tournament of Roses,
held on New Year's Day.
The trees were grown from seed brought from
the slopes of the Himalaya Mountains in India,
where the deodar is famed in song and story, its
name signifying “Tree of God". They were set
out in 1885 along what was then a driveway on
the 900-acre ranch of Col. F. J. Woodbury, a
pioneer resident. There are about two hundred of
the trees. They are approximately one hundred
feet tall and have a spread of from forty to fifty
feet.
THE KIWANIS CLUB OF PASADENA
CURT TEICH & CO
CHICAGO, ILL
