Games and is now used for big rodeos and the
football games and track meets of University of
California at Los Angeles and US.C. You may
look in through the entrance at the east.
Just beyond the Coliseum is the Olympic Swim
Stadium. One of the pools is among the only three
in the United States built according to Olympic
specifications. It was used for the Olympic Games
aquatic events. Stadium is open for public swim-
ming June to September (10 cent charge for
service men; suit and towel free),
Walk block west to Vermont Avenue, and board
northbound yellow strect car. Ask for transfer. At
Wilshire Blvd. change wo Wilshire bus heading
cast (to the right).
Wilshire Blvd., with its swank shops, cafes and
apartment houses, is the “Fifth Avenue” of Los
‘Angeles, Boulevard goes through MacArthur Park,
splitting the lake in two. Bosts are for rent on
the south side, Bus returns you to Pershing Square.
Nore: Avoid use of rush hour transportation.
JAUNT NO. 4
Minimum time 4 hours. Bus and street car fare 17¢
Frou the Visitors Bureau walk north (to the left)
on Olive Street one block to 5th Street and board
the “U" street car heading west.
Leave car at Exposition Blvd. and Vermont Ave.
Walk east (to the left) and you enter the campus
of the:
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ‘The
$1,000,000 Doheny Library is worth a vist. So is
the art gallery, on Exposition Blvd., behind Mudd
Hill, (Bours, 12:30 to 5 pam, Tuesday through
Friday, Two to 5 Saturday and Sunday. Closed
Monday.) Hancock Building, when open, offers
fascinating marine exhibits brought back by ex-
peditions to the Galapagos Islands and the Gulf
of Lower California.
The Student Union has a lunchroom and sada
fountain. (Open to the public.)
‘This is the home of the famous “Trojan” foot-
ball teams. In season you may see the team prac-
ticing afternoons on Bovard Field behind the Ad
ministration Building. Other sports are in prog
ress here or in the gym the year around.
From campus walk south on University Ave-
tue across Exposition Blvd. and enter the gates of
EXPOSITION PARK The mammoth sunken rose
garden spread out before you contains nearly
15,000 bushes. Rose perfume wafted to you (dur-
Number &
All-Year Club’s
SIGHTSEEING JAUNTS
FOR SERVICE MEN
(Exposition Park)
This is one of nine handy jaunts to famous attrac-
tions—prepared by the Visitors Bureau of the
All-Year Club, official tourist organization for
Southern California, 505 W. 6th Street (Lor
Angeles) 3 doors west of Pershing Square. Call
there for others in this series, for Souvenir Sight-
secing Map and other special, free services. We
hope they will encourage you to plan now for a
vacation here after the war.
ing the most-of-the-year blooming season) is
mingled from blooms of nearly 150 varieties of
Straight ahead is the big red brick:
STATE EXPOSITION BUILDING Here are ex-
hibited, in miniature landscapes and dioramas, the
resources and industries of California. Be sure to
visit. the mine tunnels and other exhibits in the
basement. Motion picture upstairs shows “Cali-
fornia at a Glance.” (State Building hours are 12
oon to 5 p.m. daily except closed Monday.)
To the west is the domed:
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM To enter
‘walk around to the south side. Among the thou
sands of exhibits is a roomful of reconstructed
skelctons of prehistoric beasts—Saber-tooth Tiger,
Mastodon, Giant Ground Sloth which was built
along the lines of an M3 tank. The bones were dug
from La Brea tar pits on Wilshire Blvd. a few
miles away (see them on another trip)
Att galleries and sculpture exhibits of the mu-
seum sre unusually good. And you will enjoy the
exhibits of early moviedom, transportation and
flying in the basement. (Museum hours 10 a.m
to 4 pam. except Mondays 1 to 4, Sundays and
holidays, 1 to 5.)
Just back of the State Building is the:
MEMORIAL COLISEUM ‘This giant bowl seats
105,000 people and is the second largest in the
United States. It was the site of the 1932 Olympic