| 词条 | Palm Tree (Los Angeles oldest) |
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Probably the oldest[1] and possibly the most-often moved [2] palm tree in Los Angeles, California lives in Exposition Park in the South sector of the city where it has survived for over a century since its last transplanting on 5 September 1914 (see text on commemorative plaque, illustration). The Washingtonia filifera fan palm now found on Figueroa Street - or, more precisely, on Exposition Park Drive just off Figueroa, at the intersection of West 39th Street in Los Angeles ({{Location dec|34.014041|-118.283257|heading:270}}) - started its long life in the suburban wilds until it was uprooted and moved, probably to residential San Pedro Street between 2nd and 3rd streets in the 1850s.[3] From its first transplanted home, where it probably stood with several similar trees, it was chosen in 1889 to be moved to a featured spot in front of the entrance to Arcade Depot, the Los Angeles station for the Southern Pacific Railroad, situated on Alameda Street between 4th and 5th Streets.[4] As one historian recalls, "It made the city’s first impression on tourists and transplants disembarking at the station, a sign that they had reached the promised land of sunshine after a long journey west."[5] A slight quarter of a century later, newspapers were describing the Arcade Depot as "ancient" and "unsightly and inadequate"[6], so the Southern Pacific moved their operations to Central Station in 1914 and the Arcade Depot was history. The tree some called the "Arcade Palm" then went to its new home in Exposition Park. Since Exposition Park (known as Agricultural Park until it was renamed in 1913[7]) was still being developed in 1914, and the construction of the Coliseum was still a few years in the future, there is some question as to whether the tree was moved to exactly its present location in 1914, or whether it spent some time elsewhere in the Park.[8] Whatever its exact journey, despite a "dent" a little more than halfway up its trunk, perhaps due to the 1947-1950 drought or some other environmental assault, the tree - now 100 feet tall[5] - has flourished in three centuries and apparently remains healthy. See also{{commonscat|Palm Tree (Los Angeles historic)}}
References1. ^{{cite book|title=Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles|author=Lila M. Higgins and Gregory B. Pauly, with Jason G. Goldman and Charles Hood (Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County)|publisher=Portland OR: Timber Press|year=2019|page=192|isbn=978-1604697100}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Palm|author=Fred Gray|publisher=London: Reaktion Books Ltd|year=2018|isbn=978-1780239170}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcet.org/socal-focus/remembering-whats-always-been-here-the-oldest-palm|title=Remembering What's Always Been Here: The Oldest Palm|author=D.J. Waldie|language=en-US|year=10 May 2013|website=www.kcet.org/|access-date=2019-03-02}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=Arriving in Los Angeles: Railroad Depots as Gateways to the California Dream|author=Holly Charmain Kane|publisher=unpublished Master's thesis, University of Southern California School of Architecture|year=2007|}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|title=CityDig: L.A.’s Oldest Palm Tree|author=Nathan Masters|language=en-US|website=www.lamag.com/|publisher=Los Angeles Magazine|year=17 April 2013|url=http://www.lamag.com/citythink/citydig-las-oldest-palm-tree/|access-date=2019-03-02}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/lost-train-depots-of-los-angeles.html |title=Lost Train Depots of Los Angeles History |author=Nathan Masters |date=January 17, 2013 |work=Socal Focus |publisher=KCET |accessdate=2019-03-02}} 7. ^{{cite book|title=Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles|author=Charles P. Hobbs|publisher=Charleston SC: The History Press|isbn=978-1626196711|year=2014}} 8. ^http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6127986&postcount=14612 Retrieved 2019-03-02 2 : Exposition Park (Los Angeles)|Arecaceae |
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