WORLD IN A WEEK

I love you California you're the state that weles I love you in the winter in the spring and in the fall I love your ferle valleys your ruged mountains I adore I love your grand old oan and I love your Sunny Shore where the smoke the and the in the valley BL it is there I would be in this by the Sea where each a rich perfume of the faest his home sweet home to me and I with a I return to my four centuries and more ago a romantic Spanish novelist invented a name for a place that had not even been discovered know ye he wrote that at the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California he went on to describe it as a new terrestrial Paradise a phrase which few modern-day Californians are inclined to dispute ever since then people have been coming to California in search of many things Cabrio was the first in 1542 and he sought new lands and treasure more than two centuries later in 1769 came the first colonizers the Spanish Padres seeking through their chain of missions to establish a new Outpost of Christianity in a heathen world and then in 1849 gold became the magnet which Drew thousands of Americans across the plains in a great tide of migration which has never slackened where the early Pioneers toiled for months on their Journey today's visitors traversed the nation in a few Swift hours in search of a new world of things to see and they are not disappointed for within the bounds of this California there is a whole world of sights to see from the Snowy Peaks of alike mountains to the sunny beaches of Tropic Isles from the lakes and mands of an England to the drifting Sands of an endless Sahara so where Jules Vern dreamed of going around the world in a few months today any vacationer to California can Encompass a a worldwide variety of new sites and new experiences in a few days a world in a state a world in a week at 10 minutes past noon Eastern Standard Time our dc8 jet mainliner leaves New York International Airport and points its nose toward the sky climbing swiftly to its cruising altitude of 31,000 ft our route follows the main line Airway straight across mid- America paralleling for much of the journey the old Overland Trail of the covered wagon Pioneers but those days seem almost impossibly distant as we relax in the quiet cabin either up front in first class or back in the custom coach section there is comfort and luxury to spare while outside your window the landscape is unrolling before you at nearly 10 m a minute for possibly 60 of those minutes you will be doing Justice to a delicious luncheon served piping hot by one of the four stewardesses assigned to each Jet flight and by the time you are enjoying your second cup of coffee you'll be flying over Chicago down there lunchtime time has just begun at 12:31 Central Standard time it's almost unbelievable how these big jets eat up distance 50 m while you smoke a cigarette 100 miles while you read a page in a magazine maybe 300 while you write a letter close to Omaha now at 116 p.m. still in the central time zone flying into mountain time we gain another hour so it's only 1:06 p.m. as Denver slips by under our wings crossing the California Sierra in Pacific Time still only 1:35 p.m. downhill now all the way across the bay with its spiderweb of bridges The Pinnacles of San Francisco catching the early afternoon sun touchdown 1:59 p.m. after flying over the great circle from New York 2600 mil away California is a big state and within its borders are many places to visit and many things to do so more and more these days travel-wise vacationers are using jet age speed to give them added days of fun in California fortunately at every airport there are late model cars for rent for a day or a week or as long as you like and a courteous agent to help you with directions and speed you on your way San Francisco is a city of magnificent viewpoints and one of the best is from the window of your hotel perched high on the brow of Knob Hill to the West the city stretches out to the Golden Gate and its famous bridge nearby the homes and apartments Mount the topmost hills reminding Travelers of the Seven Hills of ancient Rome but not even Rome boasts the jangling happy go-lucky cable cars which a Vigilant citizenry has so far protected from the march of progress these Carefree conveyances have friends all over the world because sooner or later everybody in San Francisco rides the cable cars and nobody ever forgets it San Francisco's Hills extend Southward along the Skyline Drive where every curve opens a new Vista a valley or mountain or distant ocean and stretching for Miles along the highway is a Chain of Lakes as blue as KO or lucern part of San Francisco's water supply but no less beautiful for that especially in the springtime when the California poppies have their brief season of Glorious Bloom returning by the ocean shore the road passes the famous Cliff House which looks down on surf bathing r ing that of doil strictly without a Ral however and worth traveling many miles to sea is San Francisco's great Golden Gate Bridge whose towers rise 700 ft from the water's edge and whose single span stretches a mile and a quarter from short a Shore if the city's Hills are Roman Fisherman's Warf is straight out of Naples from the brightly colored fishing boats to the liquid Italian accents of the sailors who bring in the catch and whether you shop at the curb stalls for a home-cooked feast or have it served in style San Francisco's Seafood is just about as good as you'll find anywhere in the world San Francisco is truly a Cosmopolitan City Chinatown for one is a real Chinese City on American soil holding to its age-old Lang language and ways it has its own theaters its own newspapers the news and the advertisements handset in characters carved by Oriental Craftsmen and schools where armad eyed youngsters supplement their American Education with the traditional culture of their ancestors learning in school and family to temper the Restless Drive of the new country with the deference and gentleness of the old many of chinatown's families are supported by the dozens of bazaars along Grant Avenue offering their wees in an atmosphere of beauty and quiet Serenity quiet and serenity for 364 days a year that is a visitor who is lucky enough to visit San Francisco during the Chinese New Year's celebration will you see old world pageantry and symbolism at its finest following Customs that are centuries old and after the crowds and the noise it's good to relax and recapture the flavor of your visit to one of the most glamorous cities in the world east of San Francisco lies the Great Central Valley backdr dropped by the ramp parts of the Sierra Nevada range the road to California's Heartland leads across the 13m bay bridge one of the world's longest and just about the only one to include a tunnel just east of the bridge lies the big and busy city of Oakland where the Rail lines meet the sea Lanes to spawn an industrial growth remarkable even in California beyond the impressive buildings of Oakland and Berkeley its northern neighbor the population thins out and Rich farmlands appear this is the Sacramento Valley and in its Center Sacramento itself capital of the state Sacramento is rich in history here is the historic Terminus of the Pony Express which brought the male Overland in 8 days from the Missouri River here too is Sutter's Fort from which a man of Destiny named James Marshall led a party of workmen to the American river and there in Sutter's Mill Race in January 1848 found the yellow flakes which touched off the California migration and changed the course of history relics of the wild years are still scattered along aptly named Highway 49 which winds among the Sierra Foothills past sleeping Villages dreaming of the past and crumbling ghost towns whose last resident is only a forgotten memory above the motherload country rise the Granite Peaks of the High Sierra a vast Mountain Wilderness 300 mi in length where roads are few and trails are steep especially to the top of Mount Whitney 14,51 ft High cradled among the Peaks are hundreds of Alpine Lakes the largest of which is Tahoe more than 30 m in length the awesome Granite power of the sieras comes to its climax in Yos National Park where the filmy Waters of bridal veil fall are sometimes Gone With the Wind before they reach the valley floor and yosity fall makes a drop nine times the height of Niagara yose's giant AOA grow only in California these great trees are the largest and the oldest living things on earth some of of them were already old when Christ was born Westward from yede the highway traverses the Rich sanen Valley an agricultural World in an hour from the fruit orchards of Britany to The Vineyards of the Rin Valley for raisins and wine to the long staple cotton of Egypt and the pasture crops of Denmark and the low countries Back to the Sea Coast again the Riviera of this world in a week would certainly be the rugged Monteray Peninsula whose incomparable 17m Drive winds among the famous cypress trees Twisted into grotesque shapes by centuries of Pacific winds equally famous or inFAMOUS are the four Championship golf courses the seventh at Pebble Beach is surrounded by boiling Surf and the 18th is ranked as one of the 10 best holes in the world old marter was the seat of the Mexican Government in California and many historic buildings still stand the original customs house practically unchanged nearby the first theater of the Dons and raneros the first state house of the upstart americanos and tranquil Mission Carmel where lies unipo Sera beloved founder of the California missions South of Carmel are the cliffs and canyons of the Big Sur country an almost primitive Wilderness stretching for a 100 miles along the ocean shore California State Highway number one the spectacular Scenic Highway which serves this region has been likened to the Costa Brava in Spain and this comparison is strengthened by the appearance of a Spanish Castle High on a distant Mountaintop it's the fabled Hurst Castle laquesta in Canada once the home of William Randolph Hurst but now a state historical monument more than three decades and $30 million went into the building of this great Spanish Renaissance structure the castle and the three guest houses surrounding it are completely furnished with one of the world's greatest collections of medieval art every foot of ground on the Enchanted Hill has been exquisitely landscaped to provide a setting worthy of the castle most admired of the many beautiful sites is the oval Neptune pool a/4 million gallons of filtered water surrounded by a graceful marble colonade at one end the facade of an ancient Greco Roman Temple on the opposite side a sculptured group representing Venus rising from the sea only a few miles from America's largest missile base Santa inz Valley dozes in the sun its flowery Fields whether of the wild or cultivated variety paint the landscape with a riot of color throughout the spring and summer season in the heart of this lovely Valley where Time Slips by with unhurried pace is the little Danish community of salang another Charming surprise for our world in a week here Old Country Customs are carefully preserved the Danish flag the church with its characteristic Danish architecture and of course the good Danish cooking which few Travelers are able to resist especially a dish of able skers Danish pancakes to you served hot and liberally drenched with fresh strawberry jam winding down from San maros pass the highway again meets the sea at Santa Barbara where the stately palm trees sway gently in the breeze and the air is perfumed by a million flowers yes this is indeed a worthy introduction to Southern California Santa Barbara could be a city of Spain serenely remembering its romantic past but celebrating it particularly during the August Fiesta when the ancestral clothes come out of the closets and the whole town parades in Spanish dress This is Home Country for spirited horses and even more spirited Riders the brilliant costumes and silver trappings are often worth much more than the animals themselves in the Old Mission days it took 4 days by creaking oxcart from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles today it's only 2 hours by Freeway to the fabled city of the Angels spreading as far as the eye can see across the coastal plain about 60% of California's people live and work in Southern California a region whose fantastic growth still continues to amaze the population experts from cities and towns all over the country thousands of visitors arrive at Los Angeles International Airport each day some looking for work some on business Affairs and others just to have fun from Los Angeles Civic Center high-speed freeways radiate in all directions serving a city which is swiftly approaching the point heaven forbid where the number of Motor Vehicles will equal the total population modern shopping centers scattered throughout the city help to relieve downtown congestion and even in the nation's thirdd largest city there are many miles of quiet streets and beautiful homes where families can practice that unique brand of indoor out Outdoor Living which contributes so much to the charm of the Southern California way of life 5 million people have to eat and sometimes around noon it seems that most of them are clustered around the 150 shops and stalls of the Glamorous Farmers Market you can take it with you if you like or you can imagine yourself in a sidewalk Market in Casablanca and eat it here veteran southlanders consider lunch at the farmers market a test in self-control if you can get up from the table and walk away under your own power you have proved yourself a person of character of course to most people Hollywood will always mean the movies the town has grown sophisticated in the years since lasi and deil filmed the squa man back in 1913 but that old Celluloid magic still weaves its spell the Studio gates are as hard to pass for a visitor as for a hopeful Starlet but one sightseeing tour gives a wonderful backstage look at this strange make believe world where the sites are concentrated not in a week but in a few minutes in recent years the younger Arts of radio and television have dominated the Hollywood scene but up at the other end of the boulevard picture business still Reigns it's Royal Court the paved entrance to Gran's Chinese Theater when an actor plants here his hand or foot or leg he has arrived when his personalized block of cement is removed and it could happen he is through but tragedies and heartbreaks are forgotten on nights when the Chinese or the Egyptian stages a big Premiere when the stars arrive in glittering array and the fans turn by thousands to cheer their favorites In the Flesh every California Community seems to have its characteristic celebration and pasadas of course is the Tournament of Roses held every New Year's day since 1889 hundreds of devoted people work around the clock on New Year's Eve so that the millions of fresh flowers which cover the floats will be fresh and dewy when the parade starts it seems hard to believe that all these flowers grow from land that in its natural state is semiarid Desert without water the land sleeps with water it leaps to life and supports an agricultural kingdom whose riches are enjoyed in every corner of the nation a few miles away is an utterly different Kingdom a kingdom of the sea here in Marin land of the Pacific thousands of finny specimens are on view and highly trained animals put on a marine circus before 2 million visitors each year these are the bottl noos Dolphins said to be the world's most intelligent animals second only to man the California sea lions are great favorites with the crowd like any ham actor they love to play to the gallery and just naturally enjoy human company but the star of the show is Bubbles the whale 1,700 lb of love and affection for her trainer and her fans Bubbles and her partner bimbo are the only trained whales in the world and they display an amazing degree of intelligence in everything except money where else could you find a performer who would work all day for a few buckets of squid for most southern Californians the greatest playgrounds of all are the dozens of beaches lining the Pacific Shore Malibu Santa Monica Redondo Long Beach and Balboa each has its favorites and its own distinctive charm one of the Prime favorites would certainly be lagona with its Cottages clinging to the seaw warn Cliffs its white Surf and Blue Water Coes a region of such natural beauty almost inevitably becomes an art colony many Resident painters are of international reputation others still have their art to learn and reputations to earn farther down the coast is another favorite Beauty Spot La Hoya the jewel whose sea-worn Cliffs and caves are often compared to Italy's aisle of Capri southern most of California's coastal cities San Diego's population has now passed the 1 million Mark a far cry from the tiny Mission settlement established here in 1769 but the flavor of old Spain still lingers among the pathways and pools of baloa Park and its world famous Zoo a playground which any City would be proud to call its own a few miles south is the flimsy fence and markers with which we use on this continent instead of machine guns to mark an international boundary Tijuana lies in Mexico but American tourists enter freely without passports and the Customs regulations are generous about bringing back the colorful and characteristic Mexican handicrafts back to the States our world in a week comes to its end in a fa simile of a spot that might be an oasis in dry and Rocky Mesopotamia the wise men of old would not have felt at all strange in the little palm bordered Gulch from which Palm Springs took its name but something new has been added namely water energy and money in about that order and modern Palm Springs is the surprising result where winter temperatures stay around 80 and the living is the essence of California lots of Sun as few clothes as possible and all the relaxation you can soak up in the time you have to spend you're St as any experienced vacationist knows one reason for making a trip is so you can send postcards to your envious friends back home we're sleeping under blankets the cards read in summer in Winter getting a wonderful tan to the really dedicated postcard author California offers opportunities unmatched for California is still that mythical Island at the right hand of the Indies the new world the Explorers the 49ers and now you have sought and found the world in a state the world in a week to my