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Tracing Glendale’s Past: The Snow Covered Palm Trees of 1949

Snow in Southern California is so uncommon that people tend to casually rattle off the years that we were blanketed in snow. 1918, 1922, 1939, 1954, 1974—Snow in L.A. County is treated like a novelty instead of the seasonal obtrusion it is farther east. And while the record snowfall belongs to 1932 (two inches!), one of the more picturesque snowfalls occurred on Monday, January 10th, 1949.

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Full Circle: A Return to the Land

Select items from the History Room are currently featured in an exciting new exhibition at the Descanso Gardens’ Sturt Haaga Gallery. Full Circle: A Return to the Land traces human interaction with the grounds upon which the Descanso Gardens sits today as well as the wider Los Angeles region.

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