Trolley Trips About Los Angeles About 1905

This is a travel brochure sent from Robert Wilson to Orpha Wilson.  It was sent sometime between 1905-1907.  it was saved in a pile of letter mostly from 1905.  Please click here for more items relating to Los Angeles.  Click here for more of the private collection of Orpha May Spencer. ** The following text is a direct transcription, I typed it in, in the correct format, but due to space, the published version my have line breaks.  

TROLLEY TRIPS
About Los Angeles

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Looking off From Mt. Lowe

On the Lines of
The Pacific Electric Ry.

PARLOR OBSERVATION CARS
TO POINTS OF SCENIC
AND ROMANTIC INTEREST

Our Lines Reach from the mountains to
the Sea and Penetrate the Valleys
that lie between

[in hand writing] this is the
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The Hospitible Fire Place at Alpine Tavern
TO MT. LOWE
The Most Marvelous Mountain Railway Journey
in the World

The distance to Alpine
is 25 miles, and the
way lies via the Ostrich
Farm, Pasadena, Altadena,
the famous poppy fields
and romantic Rubio Can-
yon.  Then up the won-
derful incline to Echo
Mountain with its great
search light and observa-
tory, and beyond where
the road climbs by many a
devious turn, now skirting
the edge of deep canyons,
now circling bold promin-
tories with far reaching
views of mountain tops,
valley and sea, through
pillared walls of granite
and bits of primeval oak
and pine forest to stop at
last at Alpine Tavern,
nestling 5000 feet above
the sea.
   Through cars from 6th
and Main Sts. at 8, 9, 10,
a.m. and 1 and 3:30 p.
m. Round trip fare $2.50.
Special excursions Satur-
day and Sunday.
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The Great Incline - Mt Lowe

[hand written] trip I took
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A Glimpse of Ye Alpine Tavern, 5000 feet above the sea.

At ye Alpine Tavern, a charming bit of Swiss architecture
nestling in a romantic glen and overshadowed by great trees
where squirrels frollic and
birds sing, begins the trail to
the summit.  Let us hope the
steel rails will never venture
farther to rob us of the de-
lights of the burro ride to the
apex, only 1100 feet above
us, but which winds by the
devious path that skirts the
highest peaks, where every
turn breaks on our vision wide
reaching panoramas that in-
spire and thrill us.  From the
summit, bald but for a few
hardy shrubs and a single pin-
ion pine that somehow found
lodgment there, one looks off
over thousands of square miles
of serrated mountain tops, pop-
ulous orangs and vine clad
valleys,and the blue, mysteri-
ous island dotted sea.

Special rates by the week
quoted on application.
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The Track Amid the Pines,
Mt. Lowe
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On a Country Road, Monrovia Way.

A Final Word

In the preceding pages we have outlined some of the distinctive
trips which are likely to most satisfactorily divert the resident
in, or visitor to, Los Angeles.  They do not comprise all the points
of interest reached by our lines---only a few in fact.  And so we
would suggest that each reader of this provide himself with one of
our little folders and time cards, believing that he will find it
helpful and informing in many ways.

The Pacific Electric Railway
Sixth and Main Streets
Los Angeles
Passenger Dept. Tel. Main 66
Ticket Dept. Tel. Main 900

Geo. Rice & Sons (Inc.) Printers. Los Angeles