Places– of charm

The original Busch Garden is in Pasadena, California.   Below, Adolphus Busch is tugging along Jo-Jo, a reluctant baby elephant.  Adolphus Busch, president of the Anheuser Busch Brewing Association, and his wife, Lilly, arrived in Pasadena in March of 1904. They arrived on the eighty-foot long, Palace Pullman car, Adolphus, and took 10 rooms at the elegant Hotel Raymond south of town. In a few weeks it was announced that Mr. Busch had acquired a property overlooking the Arroyo Seco canyon near Pasadena’s southwestern boundaries.

~ by kathleenrowland on February 21, 2009.