GOLDEN CALIFORNIA

[Music] Bold and Beautiful are the shores of California westw goal of your Coast to Coast Voyage here the broad Pacific pearls and pulses On the Sunny Frontier of America a region that harbers between its outward barrier of rock and Strand and its far-flung blue mountain ranges the vast natural resources the fruitful acres and the million homes of a young and mighty Commonwealth as your Voyage from New York by way of Panama near as its end your first Port of Call in California is San Diego Southwestern Gateway of the United States where in local phrase California began for here was the first White Settlement on our Pacific Coast 100 Mil farther north and Los Angeles receives you at its modern Harbor the waterport of the amazing Metropolis of the West Los Angeles once a tiny Spanish village now numbers more than a million and a quarter inhabitants its area is great its public buildings including the white Marble towered City Hall are many of substantial its streets are Metropolitan and team with traffic and the verdure of its older squares suggests some Lotus land of the tropics and Hollywood it is part of Los Angeles you know here a colonial Mansion may be a studio guarding a mimic world with foreign looking streets Fox films for this or sets like this on the RCA lot where war is being imitated in the Hills the homes of featured players tell of the wealth that comes from the pictures after Los Angeles North again to the Golden Gate it is hard to see as you approach it and into one of the world's largest Harbors for your voyage end at San Francisco an outpost toward the Orient and the South Seas Terminus of 100 steamship lines and three transcontinental Railways the San Francisco of today is a great commercial City yet it clings to the memories of the old adventurous animals of the goal Seekers whose Haven at was and of the Bonanza Kings of later mining days who built their dream palaces on its Hills now covered with structures of Steel and concrete Lincoln California cities and towns and traversing the state from end to end near the sea through wide valleys over Mountain grades are hundreds of miles of of modern highways an unsurpassed system of motor roads most famous is El camoo real now US Route number 101 the Royal Road connecting the missions that were placed one day's March apart now you may motor to a dozen of the missions in a day some are in Ruins but others still are religious houses here prayed and labored the devoted fathers who planted the rich culture of old Spain in a wild new land with what an abundant flowering we may see all around us in modern California the missions are treasured by all classes as eloquent monuments to the historic past so also are the Adobe homes of the Lander Gentry houses built from the soil itself this is at San Juan Batista soon to be restored by the state was the home of General Jose Castro a military commander under the old regime the AA house at Los Angeles American headquarters in the Mexican War is now a museum in most of the adobe houses all rooms opened on the reare porches and Patio where screened from public gays domestic life went serenely on this is at the esto House San Diego known by an engaging fiction as Ramona's marriage place with such a background it is but natural that Californians should foster an affinity with things Spanish they make frequent neighborly visits to nearby Old Mexico for Spanish entertainment at the gay resort of AWA calan [Music] but Californians find broad touches of foreign color at home Los Angeles has a section devoted to Mexican arts and crafts Al Vera Street a popular prominade for residents and tourists and the odor of it sidewalk kitchens well San Francisco has the largest Chinese Colony outside of Asia where Oriental life adapts itself to an American setting young China May step out in the modern way but not the elders here we meet a Chinese lady of the old school in Golden Gate Park San Francisco is a garden preserving perfectly under Western Skies The elusive charm of Japanese Artistry Little Maids out of Mado land come here at times in Native costume to lend living interest to this charming scene from The Far East go into the country and you find beauty everywhere in Blossom time beginning in February the valleys are a fairy-like world for low the winter has passed the rain is over and gone the flowers appear upon the Earth the time of the singing of birds is come less soft but no less appealing is the broader canvas of California's Great natural beauties the hills Rock ribbed and ancient as the sun the veils lying in pensive quietness between in the sequa Groves High among the sieras are the world's oldest living things giant trees that here spread their dark branches to the Sun a thousand years before Christ walked among men most impressive of all the scenic Treasures of California is that great mild deep Fisher in the mountains worn in solid Granite by running Waters the Yos Valley the national government cares for the reservation and welcomes the tourists turn now to Riches of the soil since 1848 gold worth $1,900 million has come out of California's mind the state's yield is now about 12 Millions a year and Prospectors still seek their fortunes beside its Mountain Streams vastly richer is the liquid Black Gold that flows from California's oil Welles yielding $400 million a year and there are the living gold mines the orange and lemon Groves of the state whose fruit is worth $90 million a year natural conditions favor the grower who may stand in winter in the warm sunshine of his sheltered Valley and see upon the mountains the snow that ensures his next season water supply many people Envy the orange grower and who would not yet he has no Monopoly on Sunshine and outdoor life Californians whatever their work are outdoor people horses play a large part in their Recreation Polo flourishes and by no means is considered exclusively a is for for the rich golfers find no happier land Believe It or Not these are winter scenes some of the country's best Championship courses are here California goes in for tennis in a big way with public courts in every city and town and she gives Champions to the world yachting in smooth Waters and with steady breezes is a year- round pastime in the Long Summers the sea beaches attract thousands while in Winter the wide luminous deserts of Southern California with their soft skies and tonic air and their luxurious tourist Resorts draw visitors from far and near [Music] the mountains are a great playground of the people with hundreds of free family campsites and streams and pools for fishermen where the largest trout doesn't always get away and there are miles of trails to lure adventurous Riders [Music] so speed the hours until daylight wains now Fades the glimmering landscape on the site and the moon's soft Radiance lights the way to the evening camp where song and story end the perfect day thus life goes forward in its many phases in this fascinating land of the West that gives so much for the seeking through all the cycle of its golden year this California