Romantic cities of California /
Survey of some California cities and towns, their history, sights, and buildings. Well illustrated with drawings.
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New York ; London :
D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated,
1939.
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Table of Contents:
- San Diego, California's first port of call
- Laguna and Long Beach, where beauty and the beast get mixed
- Los Angeles and Hollywood, vast hoi polloi
- Pasadena, "the crown of the valley"
- Ventura, Ojai, Santa Paula, the lovely triangle
- Santa Barbara, where gringo and caballero clasp hands
- Santa Maria, Lompoc, and San Luis Obispo, mustard and sweet pear
- Monterey, old capital of Spanish California
- Carmel by the Sea, the determined village
- San Francisco, phoenix of the Pacific
- Oakland and Berkeley, lost rancho of the Peraltas
- Ukiah and Eurka, with interlude of trees
- Weaverville, the basin filled with gold
- Chico, where John Bidwell built his ranch
- Sacramento, queen of the gold empire
- Stockton and Mokelumne Hill, the gateway city and the mid-mother lode town
- Coloma and Placerville, the Midas touch and old Hangtown
- Auburn, Grass Valley, and Nevada City,
- Old toll road center, the bottomless mine, Coyoteville
- Fresno and Bakersfield, between Sierra and Coast Range in Earth's greatest farm
- Palo Alto and San Jose, high tree, higher education and the first pueblo.