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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- EXPO_110725_100.JPG: Exposition Park Rose Garden
Established 1927
Legend
This area was originally planted with annual and perennial flowers. Roes were tested, conditions proved to be satisfactory, so in 1927 the Rose Garden was established. It contains approximately 15,000 bushes of 145 varieties.
The Los Angeles Recreation & Parks Department cordially invites you to visit these gardens any day of the year including Sundays & Holidays from 8am til sunset.
Board of Recreation & Parks Commissioners
- EXPO_110725_131.JPG: The End of All Good
Exposition Park Entrance
- EXPO_110725_139.JPG: From Sin to Science, A Park For The People
For decades into the 20th century, Los Angeles not only fed the world's imagination with films and television – it fed the world's bellies, too.
Los Angeles County prided itself on its farming abundance, and beginning in 1972, the place to show off its rich and varied crops was at the 160-acre Agricultural Park.
Here, beneath a pair of pyramid-like towers bearing the name "Agricultural Park," growers brought produce, from asparagus to zucchini to vivid displays to citrus. And here, the crowds came to browse the exhibits and to watch the races – horses, camels, dogs, bicycles and eventually automobiles.
After cheering itself dry at the races, the sporting set could get a drink at a vast bar set up below the four-story brink grandstand. Daring gentlemen could repair from there to one of the city's more stylish brothels-a white clapboard house in the middle of Agricultural Park, intended as a hotel for visiting racing fans and big gamblers.
In time, the enticements of sex, speed, and cold beer began to crowd out the agricultural attractions. A young reformer who took a particularly dim view of sin and corruption decided that the twin pyramids that bore the name "Agricultural Park" might more accurately bear the labels "Sodom" and "Gomorrah."
One afternoon in 1898, that man – a stern, sharp-eyed 37-year old attorney, USC law professor and devout Methodist named William Miller Bowen – ended his boys Sunday School class at the nearby University Methodist Church, then quietly followed his students to see where they were going.
They headed for Agricultural Park. Pushing his way though a jostling crowd, Bowen saw the horse-racing track and a separate course where greyhounds chased rabbits. According to another website: "At times rabbits were torn apart by the dogs as delighted spectators looked on. Between the races and dismemberments, Bowen saw open drinking, gambling and prostitution."
"It became clear in a very short time," Bowen said in a speech, "that the vicious influences here were more than undoing the work we were trying to do in our Sunday School class." Thus began Bowen's decade-long campaign to clean up Agricultural Park.
- EXPO_110725_143.JPG: Anything on wheels was good enough for the park. For weeks before the event, advertisements had enticed spectators. Two hundred policemen were hired for crowd control. And on September 10, 1906, some 25,000 people watched a real demolition derby: two steam locomotives, huffed and puffed on a mile of track before a shattering head-one collision at a rocketing 50 miles per hour.
Goodbye Blight, Hello Blooms:
In 1909, under pressure from Bowen, the California 6th District Agricultural Association and the City and County of Los Angeles all agreed to redevelop Agricultural Park.
By 1910, the saloons and brothers had been torn down. Plans were laid out for a trio of impressive buildings: the State Exhibition Building – now the California Science Center; the State Armory Building – now a science school; and the Natural History Museum, whose domed center made it the most beautiful of the three. By 1913, because of those three buildings, the park became known as Exposition Park.
Originally a "sunken garden" with a few trees and a walkway that met in a central circle, the Exposition Park Rose Garden opened in 1928 and had 15,793 bushes, all donated by local nurseries. Operated by the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks every since, it's the second largest garden of its kinds in California and is listed on the National Registers of Historic Places.
- EXPO_110725_146.JPG: Originally a "sunken garden" with a few trees and a walkway that met in a central circle, the Exposition Park Rose Garden opened in 1928 and had 15,793 bushes, all donated by local nurseries. Operated by the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks every since, it's the second largest garden of its kinds in California and is listed on the National Registers of Historic Places.
From a place where farmers displayed their produce, to a thrill-seeker's paradise, the park has become a center of culture and education – and a spot where Angelenos can now literally stop and smell the roses.
- EXPO_110725_194.JPG: Louis Rossuth
1802-1894
Hungarian patriot, visited the
United States on a goodwill
tour 1851-1852. Received by
President Millard Fillmore
and Daniel Webster. Addressed
the United States Senate and
the House of Representatives.
Erected by the Hungarian
Society of Los Angeles,
1954.
- EXPO_110725_201.JPG: Medical Walk of Fame:
The Medical Walk of Fame is dedicated to the hundreds of actors and actresses who have portrayed medical professionals on popular television shows and in motion pictures. Through their roles, these individuals have created a lasting imprint on the public's awareness of the health care industry.
This walkway serves as a cornerstone to the "Health for Life" exhibit, located in the Kinsey Hall of Health, and is sponsored by the Hospital Council of Southern California. The arcade provides visitors with a better understanding of health care and the wonders of the human body.
Created on July 19, 1984, the Medical Walk of Fame hopes to expand by inviting other medical heroes to pave the way for millions of museum visitors each year.
HCSC -- Hospital Council of Southern California
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"Ben Casey"
- EXPO_110725_206.JPG: Vince Edwards
"Ben Casey"
- EXPO_110725_210.JPG: John Beradino
"General Hospital"
- EXPO_110725_214.JPG: David Morse
"St. Elsewhere"
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"St. Elsewhere"
- EXPO_110725_219.JPG: Ed Begley
"St. Elsewhere"
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- Wikipedia Description: Exposition Park (Los Angeles)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exposition Park is located in University Park, Los Angeles, California, across the street from the University of Southern California. Exposition Park houses the following:
* Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
* Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
* Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
* California Science Center
o IMAX Theatre at California Science Center
* Exposition Park Rose Garden
* California African American Museum
* EXPO Center (includes the LA84 Foundation/John C. Argue Swim Stadium)
* Science Center School and Amgen Center for Science Learning (formerly California National Guard Armory)
* Expo Park Farmers Market, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturdays, South lawn of Natural History Museum
A McDonnell Douglas DC-8 near the Air and Space Exhibits Gallery
The park is public-space owned by the state of California, whose major cultural facilities mentioned above are operated by both the state and Los Angeles County. Originally, the 160-acre (0.65 km2) site served as an agricultural fairground from 1872 to 1910. (hence its original name Agricultural Park) Farmers sold their harvests on the grounds, while horses, dogs, and even camels competed along a racetrack where the rose garden now blooms today.
In 1880, John Edward, along with Mr.Ozro Childs, and former Governor Downey persuaded the State of California to purchase 160 acres (0.65 km2) in Los Angeles to foster agriculture in the Southland. Soon after USC was built in 1880, the city's most influential families moved into the neighborhood, but did not appreciate the racing and the gambling that came with it. As a result, the rose-garden replaced the racetrack, and the park became what it is now with its grand museums.
Along the northern edge of the park, the Expo Park/USC Station is under construction. When Phase 1 of the Metro Expo Line opens (end of 2011), this station will provide access to the park at Exposition and Trousdale .
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