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Honey’s search for El Portezuelo
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
[In order to see the detail of the maps and the larger photos, you can click on them to see the full size.]
Introduction
A Huntington Digital Library cataloger wrote that the scene in the photograph of a man sitting under the boughs of a tree was taken at the Ostrich Farm in Griffith Park.
According to Mike Eberts, Griffith J. Griffith’s Ostrich Farm was located near today’s Crystal Springs picnic area.[1]
Mike Eberts was right. The Huntington cataloger was wrong.
The Man Sitting Under Tree Boughs photo shows Beacon Hill, the eastern-most summit in the Santa Monica Mountain Range, the 1,001-foot hill that towers over the Los Angeles River. Beacon Hill separates Crystal Springs from the Riverside Drive portion of Griffith Park.
You can see Beacon Hill from the Crystal Springs side but the hill does not look the same from the Crystal Springs side.
