Tourists head to sunny California
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Nov. 8, 1908: More and more tourists would soon be heading to California, The Times reported under the headline “Westward Turns Tourist Tide, Direction of Travel Toward Sunny California, Wealthy Easterners Will ‘See’ This State Rather Than ‘Do’ Europe.”
“That there is a general change in the disposition of wealthy tourists to give up going abroad and to spend some time in seeing the sights and enjoying the climate of their own country, is the report that O.L. Chafin, clerk at Hotel Green, brings back after ... a recent visit to tourist agencies of the East,” the newspaper said in a report from Pasadena.
“All of the eastern booking agencies are talking California hard and I have heard many prominent and wealthy people express their intention of coming here this winter,” Chafin told The Times.
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