University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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.sj»!».asis - ' Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino Glistening white walls which still retain the stamp of newness constitute the physical structure of the Huntington Library. yO MANY classicists the old world is the ultimate focal point of all true culture and tradition. The Bibliotica Dei Fugger in Italy pictured on the right, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the ruins of Carthage, the home of Wagner, of Victor Hugo, of Milton are all monuments steeped in eulogy and age and impregnable to time. It is crass conceit to attempt a comparison which the veneration of generations has placed in a class beyond compare. Yet it is ignorant dogmatism to belittle in the United States the vital cultures of today — the traditions and monuments of tomorrow because they lack the authority of years. Southern California is, more than almost any other spot a land of intellectual contrasts and opportunity. Above is a picture of the reknowned Huntington Library, treasure house of Gainsborough ' s Blue Boy and some of the most valuable of original manuscripts. Not many

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Kiij ' s i(.lewalkf are laid in pay mosaic patterns. The Monroe Palace in the back ruui once Brazils pavilion at the St. Louis Exposition. T THE left is pictured a small section of Wilshiie Boulevard taken near Westwood Village. And above is sho wn the famed mosaic sidewalks of Rio de Janeiro. Incredible as it may seem, U. C. L. A. is bound on both sides by two of the most famous boulevards in the world. Wilshire, spoken of in the same breath as Fifth Avenue, Champs Elysees in France, and England ' s Strand reaches from the Santa Monica palisades, overlooking the ocean and some of the swankiest of beach homes, to the heart of Los Angeles. Wide and colorful, it passes by stores the beauty of which cannot be matched anywhere else in th eworld. To the north of the campus Sunset Boulevard winds ribbon-like through gorgeous residential districts and the expensive and exclusive shopping Strip. Unravelling its length it goes from the very oldest to that which has not yet been developed. The Plaza, scene of early California life, is at one end and the brush-stubbled mountains of the Santa Monica range belt merge into the Pacific at the other. Between the two extremes are muted Hollywood nightclubs, radio sta- tions, and film studios. A city of excellent roads is dominated by these two renowned boule- vards. Fii

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miles from Huntington is the Hollywood Bowl where in a naturally acoustic setting symphonies on balmy, starlit nights become a thing of rare mystic beauty and enchantment. To the south down the coast is the artist colony of Laguna Beach, its delightfully Bohemian spirit deceptively lacquered with a spotty coat of dignity. Great men, irresistibly drawn by the year round temperate climate, the ocean, the mountains, the intellectual atmosphere of high educational institutions an dsympathetic minds — have made Los Angeles a vast reservoir of talent, knowledge, and ideas that will shape the cultural patterns of tomorrow. Foreign collection of cultural gems in the Biblioteca Dt- Fugger. whose Sala Maggiore, here depicted, was completed ir 1571.