"Twenty-two mounted collotypes, by Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. The final page is a panorama of Los Angeles from Angel's Flight. View includes the Lankershim Hotel, built 1904."
LOS ANGELES COLLOTYPES, by Albertype Co., 1905
Author: Arthur Mullen
Roger Sherman, also of Connecticut, was known to have given one of the shortest speeches in history at a bridge dedication ceremony when he said, "I think it will hold up all right," while testing the strength of the bridge with one foot.
FRAZADO AND PISPIBATA: The Favored Delicacies of Early Californians, by Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1888
"The California Indians had a drink, the pispibata, which was so strong and deleterious that the padres would not allow them use it. It was made of powdered calcined shells, wild tobacco juice and wild cherries, powdered, shaken and ground, water being added until its consistency was almost a solid. Sometimes maize or fruit of easy fermentation was used. It was a powerful decoction, equal to a mixture of rum, tobacco juice and opium — if one can imagine what that would be."
FIRST AMERICANS IN LOS ANGELES, by Margaret Romer, 1924
"On Christmas Day in the year 1828 the American brig 'Danube' was wrecked on the rocks at San Pedro. The crew were rescued and a few of them remained as settlers. Among these was John Groningen, a German. The Spanish people could not twist their tongues around the name so they called him Juan Domingo."
Aliso Tree — Los Angeles, rooted in history. 