The original and most characteristic Bungalow in Southern California 
In Search of Bungalows 
WHAT WE FOUND 
By FELIX J. KOCH 
W E were going out West and, incidentally, 
Southwest armed only w ith kodak and note 
hook. “Keep an eye out lor attractive 
hungalows,” the editor said, “I can use something 
along that line. ” So we did. Wherever we went we 
inquired for bungalows. Our first source of informa¬ 
tion was on the railway crossing the Texas plains. 
“Oh, you must get off at Denting, down in New 
Mexico; the whole town’s built of bungalows.’’ 
“What else is there at Denting?’’ we asked, in¬ 
terested. “Oh, nothing much! People found that 
by boring down into the desert and putting up wind¬ 
mills they could get water. Land was cheap and so 
the town sprang 
up. All lumber 
and the like 
has to be brought 
in by railway, how¬ 
ever, and so the 
bungalow style ob¬ 
tains!’’ 
In a search such 
as this one, pic¬ 
tures must be re¬ 
lied on for the 
larger part of the 
story. We are at 
Yuma down on the 
horde r-1 a n d h e- 
tween Territory 
and State. 
“Don’t fail to visit the Indian School,” a friend 
told us, “the dearest brown bungalows, filled with 
young redskins. Really a model place of its sort!” 
Fig. I. We thought we knew bungalows when we 
saw them, but the two-story structure. Fig. 2, and 
the one-story dobe. Fig. 3, that people thereabouts 
designated by that name, were really quite beyond 
us. Nor was that yet the end. 
Out in the Imperial Valley, where they have 
changed desert to garden, ne’er-do-well sons of 
rich men fresh out of college are set to ranching 
and sowing wild oats. Each of these has his “bun¬ 
galow”—and see what he calls by that name. The 
kodak has taken 
one which we trust 
speaks for itself. 
Fig. 4. 
By and by we 
came to Pasadena 
the lovely, and to 
tourist-land. 
“Yonder bun¬ 
galow” our guide 
presently indicated 
a n d—we pressed 
the button. We 
were obeying in¬ 
structions, Fig. 5. 
Down a s h a d 3^ 
little lane over¬ 
hung with pepper 
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