Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
In 1875, Los Angeles was a town of around 8,000 people, and there were no palm trees in sight. The palm trees were added to make people want to come and buy land in southern California, but it wasn’t L.A.’s developers or city planners who came up with the idea: it was the French.
Up until the mid- to late-19th century, the French Riviera was sparsely populated. But popular writers began traveling there, and found it was pretty nice. That, coupled with a trendy new health fad in which time in a dry warm climate is supposed to have good effects on the body, increased its popularity. Immediately developers moved there and began building it up. Palms, already a symbol of warmth from the Middle East, were ideal for this kind of rapid…
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