The wealthy elite turned it into their playground. Ten miles (16 kilometres) from downtown Los Angles, you pick your way the cactus wildflowers – in Eaton Canyon, we felt we were far from civilization. If you walk downtown to Colorado Ave. past the stores and restaurants, you will end-up at magnificent Norton Simon home to the world’s most impressive private art collections, that of industrialist Norton Simon. There are 2000 varieties of flowers in the San Gabriel and Sana Monica mountains. Welcome to the city of roses. The city was originally known as a resort in the late 1800’s; wealthy Easterners would come for their health, to take advantage of the climate to recover from conditions such as TB. The city became a haven for the rich. They built museums and universities, and elaborate homes. They organized diversions such as the now legendary annual New Years Day Rose Parade.
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