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Originally Posted by tovangar2
There's a long-popular fashion to plant multi-trunk sycamores and then train their trunks into 'artful' arrangements as a sort of sculptural effort
on the front lawns of homes.
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Very interesting
T2, I didn't realize you could do that with sycamores.
Speaking of sycamores, I don't believe we've seen this one on NLA.
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=73034
"Elaine MacKenzie points to a sycamore tree, which is one of the oldest landmarks in the San Fernando Valley. The exact location of the tree is not indicated,
but it appears to be near a large estate or park. Pacific Electric Streetcar tracks are visible on the right. Photo dated: May 15, 1930."
KCET has a different caption for the same photograph.
"This massive sycamore near the entrance to Forest Lawn cemetery doubled as a survey point when Rancho San Rafael was partitioned in 1871."
"It delineated the border between the cities of Glendale and Los Angeles and later guarded the entrance to Glendale's Forest Lawn cemetery. Though scarred by spike holes and other marks left by surveyors, the tree was made a monument in 1930, when the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a plaque at its base."
Here's the plaque.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics29/00049246.jpg
I drove the google-mobile to the entrance of Forest Lawn and couldn't find hide nor hair of the sycamore
or the plaque.
And we must not forget about the grand dame of all sycamores,
El Aliso.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10490
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