Many years before the now defunct Los Angeles amusement park Busch Gardens...
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there was the world famous
Busch Gardens in Pasadena.
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usually referred to as the Busch '
sunken' Gardens.
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larger view/simply beautiful
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The Adolf Busch residence overlooking his beloved sunken gardens.
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hmmm...how many Busch residences were there? three...four?
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interesting stats.
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I'm not sure if that's Helen Burke or Snow White?
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and there was even a lake. (note the lone hilltop house in the far distance)
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folder dated 1913.
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one last view of the mill. Is that a stork on the chimney?
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tourist's snapshots 1910s. (see the woman walking past the sculptured shrub) -reminds me of '
Last Year at Marienbad'.
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The Busch 'eagle' in flowers/lower right
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The borders of Adolf's Busch Gardens. This place was HUGE!
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Bellafontaine Street is the northern border/ Madeline Drive is the southern.
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