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STATION. NO. BOXES ORAN&ES STATION. NO. BOXES ORANGES 



SHIPPED. SHIPPED. 



Alhambra 43,443 Monrovia 1,998 



Azusa 13,469 Pasadena 43,712 



Chapman 4,168 Raymond 1,346 



Duarte 32,267 San Gabriel 22,416 



Lamanda Park 16,500 South Pasadena 2,708 



Total for season of 1890-92 — 182,025 boxes. The shipments from lyos 

 Angeles city in same time were 22,826 boxes. 



ROLLER SKATING RINK. 



The Valley Union of October 11, 1884, said : 



"The Pasadena Skating Rink will provide us with a long-felt want in 

 the way of a public building that will accomodate as large an audience as 

 will turn out on any occasion for the next five years, probably. The two 

 young men who enter into this enterprise, Messrs. Brinker and lyockhart, 

 have displayed commendable enterprise, and deserve to make it pay. The 

 building is 30 x 90 feet in dimensions, with a gallery over the entrance, 

 while a large stage, with dressing rooms on either side fills up the other end. 

 The seating capacity is about 600. The opening took place last Saturday 

 with a grand ball, which many young ladies and gentlemen attended." 



The roller skating fever was then running its course through the land, 

 and Pasadena was well flushed with it. For several months the rumble of 

 the rollers could be heard for five or six squares all around, every evening, 

 as the devotees of that exhilarating pastime kept the skating floor in lively 

 use. The building stood on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Dayton 

 street, where the Doty block is now. [See Second Citrus Fair, p. 319.] 



In March, 1885, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, author of the famous 

 Southern California story entitled "Ramona," was in Pasadena a few days, 

 stopping at Marengo Hall, then kept by Mrs. Alonzo Tower. 



In April, 1885, at the Flower Festival in lyos Angeles, Mrs. Rosenbaum 

 [since deceased] exhibited 150 different varieties of roses grown by her in 

 Pasadena. At the same time Thomas Nelmes's two children. Tommy and 

 Jeannie, exhibited 102 different varieties of wild flowers gathered by them 

 hereabouts ; and on this matter the Pasadena U^iion of May ist, said : 



"The following record of the varieties of wild flowers gathered each 

 month for the year 1884 by the children of Mr. Thomas Nelmes, is of 

 interest as a matter of curiosity, as well as for its botanical value : In 

 January, sixty-five varieties were gathered ; in February, sixty-eight ; March, 

 seventy ; April, seventy-three ; May, eighty-seven ; June, seventy ; July, 

 sixty ; August, fifty-four ; September, fifty ; October, forty-five ; November, 

 forty-eight; December, fifty-six." 



About the same time the same paper gave this arborial item : 

 "A. M. Byram has in his door-yard a white oak tree that measures 

 seventy-six feet from edge to edge of the circle covered by its spreading 

 branches. The tree is thirty-five feet high, and the trunk is four feet in 

 diameter. He calls his place ' Nine Oaks. ' ' ' 



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