
An essay about the how Spanish colonizers brought palm trees to California & the religious reasons for it, the Victorian obsession with these trees & how they eventually came to be a symbol of Hollywood/Los Angeles.
“The City of Angels became the perfect laboratory for the Victorian ideals of productivity, piety, and exotica, and it was here that palms began to represent all three.”

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