Route Map Week 21

the best part was

[Last Week]    The Beach family, Charles, Doretta, Lela and Claude, set out from Cornwall, Ontario on October 18, 1921. This is Doretta's diary.
Photo: View of movie set 
Willat Studio (movies) Los Angeles
(where we saw them taking a Japanese scene)
March 7th. Bright and warm. Mrs. Clark and Lela went down town in A.M., and I had lunch ready when they came home and then after lunch we all went to Hollywood and called on Mrs. Smith and Hilda. We then went on to Universal city and saw the moving picture studio Fox Co, and other Co. Home had tea and all went out to Dr. Oakley for the evening.
March 8th. Warm and bright. Nothing startling. Rested all day.
March 9th. Bright and warm. Got up early and all went down town and we girls shopped, came home had lunch, and all went out to see electric stoves, etc. Father went to see specialist and from there to dentist and got his upper teeth. Coming home we went through the new tunnel they have finished under a mountain in heart of the city. It is three eighths of a mile long and there are several in the city.
March 10th. Warm and bright. We all went down town to see the electric stoves and bungalo fixtures. Had lunch and then went over to see Mrs. Long from Orillia and after tea father and I went down to see Dave Brikfords.
March 11th. Raining, hailed and a terrible wind. Shipped our trunk home and got everything reach to pack to leave Monday A.M. Fair towards evening.
March 12th. Weather beautiful. All went to Trinity Church. After lunch went for a couple of hours drive, then had tea and Albert Beach, wife and daughter came for the evening.
Photo: Lela perched on a pile of oranges 
Discarded Oranges (frozen)
piles 6 - 8 ft. high
March 13th. Bright and warm. All went down town on errands and came back as we were waiting for a letter from Clifford and received it and went to bank. Then had lunch and bade Mrs. Clark good bye and left on our home stretch, going through Pasadena and on through very large orange and lemon groves that were badly hurt with frost, the ground being yellow with frozen fruit and the scenery beyond description. Looking at the groves yellow with fruit and on back of them for a background the snow capped mountains it was a sight and on through peach and walnut groves and through a very pretty little town called Upland, the street two hundred feet wide with driveways on either side and two rows of large pepper trees one on each side of street car track, in the middle of this wide street.

This ran all the way to the town of Ontario and on, I do not know how much farther, as we hurried off towards Riverside getting here about five o'clock and located. Father called up L. W. Scott, formerly of Winchester and after we had dinner they came over to the Hotel to see us and had us go over to their home for the evening. On the way over to Scott's we past through White Park, which had a bed of cactus containing 387 species of cactus and a real cork tree imported from Africa. Mr. Scott is Supt. of all the parks in Riverside.

Mt. Rubidoux is the Sacred Mountain of the red man in early days and to-day is the sacred mountain of the Christian for Rubidoux fame was heralded far and wide due to the fact that on Easter dawn thousands persons old and young coming from miles and miles in every direction to participate into this beautiful sunrise service. Prompted by Jacob Rees and achieved through the efforts of Mr. Frank Miller, master of the mission Inn, the first service was held in 1909, attended by 40 or 50 persons, now from fifteen to twenty thousand, make their way to the Mountain before the break of day by foot or auto. Father Serra the founder of the California Missions and is a huge cross now covered with electric lights on Eastern morn and can be seen for miles and miles.

Rev 2000-02-18 [Next Week]