"Pictured: the old Aliso tree, Aliso Street, Los Angeles, cut down in 1891. 'Patronize Home Industry.' The Maier and Zobelein Brewery, Aliso, Vignes and Commercial Streets, 1899."
LOS ANGELES SUNDAY TIMES: Midwinter Number — January 1, 1899
Tag: El Aliso tree
FOUNDING OF THE PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES, by James Miller Guinn
"The site selected for the pueblo of Los Angeles was picturesque and romantic. From where Alameda street now is to the eastern bank of the river the land was covered with a dense growth of willows, cottonwoods and alders; while here and there, rising above the swampy copse, towered a giant aliso (sycamore). Wild grape vines festooned the branches of the trees and wild roses bloomed in profusion. Behind the narrow shelf of mesa land where the pueblo was located rose the brown hills, and in the distance towered the lofty Sierra Madre Mountains."
THE TREE AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, by Bruce Walter Barton, 1980
"In relating to the tree each person saw himself or herself standing at a unique center — the heart of the individual was projected to that single point where the tree's vertical and horizontal axes intersect. No matter what size the community, each member enjoyed the same, yet singular position. California's natives knew who they were — and they knew where they were — because of this sacred tree at the center of the world."
Aliso Tree — Los Angeles, rooted in history. 