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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

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