South Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California

SOUTH PASADENA is a residence suburb of Los Angeles (take South Pasadena car of Pacific Electric Railway).
The principal point of interest is the celebrated Cawston Ostrich Farm. The farm is situated in a semi-tropic park of great
beauty. There is here the largest flock of ostriches in America.
Besides many smaller birds, there are 150 gigantic ostriches always on exhibition. The amusing gambols and antics,
the feeding and the domestic habits of these strange birds are sources of unfailing interest to visitors, more than 100,000
of whom view them in a year. This farm was established in 1886 with ostriches brought from South Africa by Mr. Edwin Cawston.
This was the first of the California ostrich farms and opened the way for a new and interesting industry.
At the Cawston farm may be seen an almost priceless collection of plumes; the great incubators are the largest of their kind.
Another point of interest in the park is the aviary of rare birds.

Source: CALIFORNIA TOURIST GUIDE AND HANDBOOK , TRAVEL AND POINTS OF INTEREST IN CALIFORNIA; Western Guidebook Company, 1913
[transcribed by: Candi Horton - 2008]

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