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Piety and Perversity: The Palms of Los Angeles

Piety and Perversity: The Palms of Los Angeles

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    “An essay about the how Spanish colonizers brought palm trees to California & the religious reasons for it, the Victorian obsession with these trees & how they eventually came to be a symbol of Hollywood/Los Angeles. “The City of Angels became the perfect laboratory for the Victorian ideals of productivity, piety, and exotica, and it was here that palms began to represent all three.””

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