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 California's Golden Age is no more reflected 
 in the past than in the present. 
 
 Today is linked to yesterday by the "Cathe- 
 drals in the Sun" — California's ^lissions. Here 
 for the first time is presented a complete tour of 
 all the Missions located between the two 
 Expositions. 
 
 In presenting this data to the visiting and the 
 resident motorists, the Automobile Club of 
 Southern California has attempted a simple 
 arrangement of fact. The route, known to 
 historians as El Camino Real (The King's 
 Highway) has, by popular usage become known 
 as the "Coast Route." All of the missions are 
 located here. 
 
 Time should be no object in wandering along 
 this route of the padres. Each crumbling ruin 
 (and all are not ruins), has its individual story, 
 its history. Inquiry at Club headquarters for 
 up-to-date road information is advised. This 
 may be secured at 1344 South Figueroa Street, 
 Los Angeles; The Hotel Maryland, Pasadena; 
 The Grant Hotel Building, San Diego; and the 
 Chamber of Commerce Building, Santa Barbara. 
 
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 More splendid in their melting glory than the 
 Cathedrals of the Old World, CaUfornia's dust- 
 brown missions call the motorist to the trails of 
 yesterday over the highways of today. 
 
 Wearily waiting for the inevitable end, when 
 their tired walls have at last melted to the dust 
 from which they sprang, when rain and wind 
 have called earth's own back again, these ruins 
 sleep majesticallj' on the rounded breasts of 
 their native hills. 
 
 Histories written now, or shortly to be written, 
 can never recall to being for future generations 
 the slewing walls. Fortunate among men are 
 those that send their purring motors out over 
 the California boulevards and see, with their 
 own eyes opened to the wonder of the Things 
 That Used To Be, the last good-bye of Father 
 Serra's monuments. 
 
 There are no stained glass windows in these 
 missions; there are no $60,000 "Old Masters", 
 there are no flamboyant mosaics, no carved fili- 
 gree. Dedicated to the solemn service of God 
 through the child-like faith of the padres, 
 springing monumental from the soil on which 
 they stand, these cathedrals of the newer world 
 have taken their places in the heart of the sun 
 over the blood of their builders. They do not 
 claim the motorist's speeding regard with the 
 enticements of the Old World art — they make 
 no claim at all. History, romance, achieve- 
 ments are their mural decorations, their Alpha 
 and Omega: their first, and so — their last. 
 
 The living speak for themselves — Santa 
 Barbara, San Gabriel, Los Angeles, San Luis 
 Obispo, Ventura and Mission Dolores. Recon- 
 struction, preservation, supplementation have 
 bested the elements in their eager work of 
 destruction. It is the ruined which call most 
 loudly, though their tongues are mute — Mission 
 San Jose, La Soledad, San Juan Capistrano, San 
 Diego. 
 
 In this tour they plead tor recognition. It is 
 
not diflBcult to rehabilitate each adobe pile 
 with the Ufe, the hopes, the ambitions of a cen- 
 tury ago. In their patios gathered the Indians 
 at sunrise, under their arches walked the con- 
 templative Fathers at sunset, in their fields 
 worked both at noontide. Soldiers swaggered 
 there. Naked savages came down from the 
 hills for their baptisms and Father Junipero 
 Serra achieved, protective, over all. 
 
 S.\N JUAN CAPISTRANO 
 Biography San Juan Capistrano Mission 
 Half way between San Gabriel and San Diego on the El 
 Camino Real. Founded in 1776. Originally the most beauti- 
 ful of all the missions and remarkable for the heavy stone 
 carvings and the great tower which fell in the earthquake of 
 1812, killing the worshippers at their devotions. That, 
 together with the elements, have left here the most picturesque 
 of all the missions. 
 
 Between the years of 1769 and 1823 their 
 work was done — fifty-four years of patting mud 
 into shapely tiles, of hewing sycamore boughs 
 into sturdy timbers, ot brewing mortar from the 
 limestone, of treading the motor highways of 
 today. Where oxcarts creaked, where padres 
 walked, twentieth century fliers are hurtling, 
 still the dust is the same, the walls are there, and 
 still, under the shadow of the self-same cross, 
 the children of the missions, the Indians, are 
 waiting for the end. 
 
 Lion of them all, superb, benign, even tri- 
 
umphant in its passing, its work done, its 
 history inscribed more deeply in the hearts of 
 those that are going or have gone, than in any 
 book, beckons San Juan Capistrano — ^sired by 
 Necessity and whose dam was Hope. Just as 
 Santa Barbara is the most vital living relic of the 
 past, so is Capistrano its most glowing ruin. 
 
 So much for the past. For the future the 
 advent of the motor can promise a better under- 
 standing of these missions. With the realiza- 
 tion that they are melting into the Beyond, 
 trickling slowly to their valley levels, efforts will 
 be made to save them. But while they are in 
 the glory of their departing days the motorist 
 can do little better than to follow the routes 
 herein portrayed and make of California's 
 Mission Tour a journey through the gates. 
 
 Motorists will choose one of three ways to 
 cover the Mission Tour of the Automobile 
 Club of Southern California. They will tour 
 the length of the State, beginning at San Diego 
 and working northward; they will tour south- 
 ward from San Francisco or they will center their 
 initial activity in and about Los Angeles. 
 
 The latter is perhaps the best plan. Leaving 
 Los Angeles, it is then possible to tour to San 
 
 LOS ANGELES MISSION 
 
 Situated in the center of Old Los Angeles at the Plaza. 
 It is used now as a place of worship and is open to visitors. 
 It is historically, but not architecturally significant. 
 
Diego over the Inland Route, stopping at Pala 
 and the first mission founded, at San Diego, and 
 returning over El Camino Real, California's 
 Riviera, along the coast, stopping at San Luis 
 Rey and San Juan Capistrano and then on to 
 San Francisco. 
 
 SAN G.\BRIEL 
 One of the most prosperous of all the missions. Founded in 
 1771. To be remembered for its thousands of neophytes, its 
 splendid -nines and its fertile fields. It is a pure type of what 
 may be called Californian architecture — a combination of the 
 Spanish and the Moorish. 
 
 To know something of how, why and when the 
 missions were built here on the western shore of 
 America is imperative to a sympathetic under- 
 standing of the mission romance. 
 
 In its efforts to secure the Californias tor 
 itself, Spain sent soldiers and priests to the coast 
 for the purpose of establishing presidios (mili- 
 tary bases) and missions — the latter to convert 
 the Indians, which at that time were in the 
 savage state. Landing first at San Diego, the 
 succeeding years were made up of chapters of 
 untold hardships on the part of the padres, ot 
 
Father Serra's long search for the Bay of Monte- 
 rey, of the first baptism at San Diego, where, in 
 1769, the first mission was founded. 
 
 In building these missions, the Fathers induced 
 the Indians, as rapidly as they became tractable, 
 to carrv logs down from the hills, to mold adobe 
 
 SAN DIEGO MISSION 
 San Diego de Alcala 
 Significant as the first mission founded in California, date, 
 July, 1769. Started first at the mouth of the San Diego River 
 and later moved nearer the timbered mountains. Although 
 far gone in ruins its site teems with the romance of the baptism 
 of the first California Indian. From here the Fathers moved 
 northward and the chain of missions was begun. 
 
 and to build with stones, much as the Pyramids 
 were built. Gradually, one by one. Father 
 Serra added to his geographical rosary, other 
 missions, until a long string, linked by El 
 Camino Real, was spread along the Calitornia 
 coast. 
 
 Each mission within its walls encloses the life 
 history of one or more of the padres who were 
 Father Serra's lieutenants in the work, and all 
 are dying tributes to the courage of the man 
 himself. Whatever may be said of the success 
 or failure of Spain's venture, the last word must 
 be written for the personal enthusiasm of 
 ■lunipero Serra. 
 
 With the natural material at hand, adobe, 
 
limestone, sycamore boughs and stone, with 
 crude tools fashioned here or brought on the 
 ships from Spain, the padres, garbed in the 
 clinging robes of their church, helped by half 
 wild, half naked savages, built the walls seven 
 feet in thickness and in places one hundred feet 
 in height. With no interference from outside 
 sources, which are generally reported under the 
 head of secular greed, it is possible that these 
 cathedrals, despite rain, despite earthquake, 
 despite time, would all be standing as is Santa 
 
 SAN LUIS REY 
 San Lns Ret De Francia 
 Founded in 1798 and in fair state of preservation, services 
 being held and the doors remaining at this date open to 
 visitors. 
 
 Barbara today. However, for the most part, 
 their work was done. In the advance ot civili- 
 zation other forces concentrated in the develop- 
 ment of California. 
 
 Now, these missions are not the relic of any 
 creed. They are the property of the people of 
 the United States in a finer sense than that given 
 by deed or title. Like the battlefield of Gettys- 
 
burg, like Plymouth Rock, Bunker Hill and the 
 Liberty Bell, they belong to the soil of the 
 Nation — they are the nation's wards. Every 
 slipping wall, every crumbling arch, every 
 loosening tile falling into dust tarnishes the 
 bright escutcheon of the nation with that dust. 
 Attempts to save them have been puny and 
 futile — the motorist will know that at San Juan 
 Capistrano. On February 2, 1915, the gateway 
 to the children's quarters fell. 
 
 SAX FERNANDO 
 Mission San Fernando 
 Dedicated in 1797, it stands now as the original stiucture, 
 which was built on the ruins, this escaping the earthquake of 
 1812. Additions have been made throughout the years. 
 
 It was the custom of the padres to cover the 
 distance between the Missions, not in ox-carts or 
 by horse, but on foot. By instinct they followed 
 the routes of least resistance, winding among the 
 hills and along the shore, seeking ever the level 
 places for their weary tread. In after years 
 their trails were broadened and over them ran 
 ox-carts, carrying rich farm products to the 
 market places. As time went on the ox-carts 
 gave place to horse drawn vehicles and the 
 by-ways that had become roads were improved, 
 their course changed here and there to shorten 
 the long distances. 
 
Finally came the automobile, steam shovels, 
 modern methods, and El Camino Real, deviating 
 only a little from the mission paths, was seized 
 on as a great State highway; $18,000,000 in 
 State bonds were passed with the promise of 
 paved boulevards to come. These monuments in 
 
 SANTA BARBARA 
 Saxta Barbara 
 Founded in 1782. Father Serra passed away two years 
 later and many troubles befell the missions, among them 
 being the denial of temporal power. It was one of the largest, 
 most elaborate and best built of all the missions. Rebuilt 
 after the earthquake of 1812, it still retains much of its 
 original grandeur. 
 
 concrete to the achievements of California's first 
 civil engineers are no less real gifts to the world 
 than were the missions themselves. 
 
 As the problems of road building were met by 
 the growing West, came another factor in the 
 scheme of things that count. The Automobile 
 Club of Southern California, develojiing into a 
 powerful organization as naturally as developed 
 the concrete highways, exercised its energy in 
 placing guiding marks over tlic .5,000 miles of 
 road crossing and recrossing the southern part 
 of the State. Hero was installed the most com- 
 plete system oi iiighway sign-posting in the 
 world — the motorists' gift to the reclamation 
 work of the padres. 
 
Today, from San Francisco to San Diego lies 
 Serra's rosary, linked by the adamantine chain. 
 Over it are rolHng motor cars from every State, 
 compassing between sunrise and sunset the 
 distance taken by the padres in the passing ot 
 a moon. Calling ever are the missions, somnolent 
 
 SAX LI 16 OBISPO 
 
 San Luis Obispo De Tolosa 
 
 Among the smallest and least important of all the missions. 
 
 Was the home of Father Martinez, most romantic of all friars. 
 
 He was convicted of smuggling and returned to Madrid. 
 
 This mission was founded in 1772. 
 
 as Old Acu, the Bellringer, in the shadow of 
 his beloved Capistrano; calling, not by voices 
 strained thru filigree, not by the rumble of 
 Old Masters, nor by architecture's shriek, but 
 by the subtler magnetism oi the past — the assured 
 completeness of Old Age, the satisfaction of 
 a life well spent, a work well done. 
 
VENTURA 
 San Bcena Ventuba 
 Founded by Father Junipero Serra personally. Situated 
 now in the heart of Ventura, the old mission was once the 
 scene of many attacks by Indians. Bullet marks may now be 
 seen on the walls. Its powei languished after 1830. It appears 
 now only as a church, all its former glory and beauty having 
 sunk into decay. 
 
 SANTA YNEZ 
 
 Santa Ynez 
 
 Never as large or as rich as many of the missions, it still 
 
 remains a monument of beauty — all that was left after the 
 
 earthquake. It was founded in ISOl. Five of the original 
 
 bells hang in a reconstructed tower. 
 
LA SOLEDAD 
 
 This was the starving brother of all the missions. Its crops 
 were poor, its neophytes few, and iis architecture simple. It 
 occupies a place in California's history as being the leanest 
 of many fat cattle, which were the missions. It was founded 
 in 1791. 
 
 PALA 
 
 San Antonio De Pal.i 
 Was once a branch of San Luis Rey, and remains only as a 
 tower of bells, a modern Indian school and a general store. It 
 is situated at the base of the beautiful Palamar Mountains 
 and on the San Luis Rey River. 
 
SAN MIGUEL 
 
 One of the most important of the Spanish outposts ct 
 religion on the Pacific Coast since its fcunding in 1797. This 
 place of worship has changed very little since its original com- 
 pletion and is well worth close study. The arrangement of the 
 arches distinguish this church from the others. 
 
 
 SAN JUAN BAUTISTA 
 
 Hampered after its founding in 1797 by Indian laids and 
 intrigues. It was the most unfortunate of all the missions and 
 suffered from fire, raid, antl earthquake. 
 
LA PURISIMA COXCEPCION 
 Although founded in 1787, it was completely demolished by 
 the earthquake of 1812 and the ruins swept away by the river. 
 Later the church structure was .ebuilt and dedicated In 
 viewing many of the seeming ruins it must be remembered that 
 they are not the original edifices. Fifteen thousand souls were 
 converted to the faith here. 
 
 SAX A.MUXKJ OK PAULA 
 Its Influence extended for hundreds of miles and more than 
 one thousand Indians servea its cause. Founded in 1771. 
 The original structure was replaced in 1813, and increased in 
 impoi'lance up until that time. 
 
CARMEL 
 
 El Carmelo 
 Founded at the end of Father Serra's long walk to discover 
 the Bay of Monterey. It was dedicated to King Carlos. 
 Founded in 1770, was restored in 1881, upon the original plans. 
 The tower is a replica of the first and the splendid f.imishings 
 of the first edifice have been preserved. 
 
 SAN JOSE 
 The original bjilding, founded in 1796, was unpretentious 
 and poor. Another building was erected in 1800 and is .>.till 
 standing. San Jose is noted mere for its fields and gardens 
 than for its architectural beauty. 
 
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 SANTA CRUZ 
 
 Founded in 1790. This mission had a very vinhappy exist- 
 ence, experiencing numerous attacks by Indians. No vestige 
 of the ruins now remain. 
 
 SANTA CLARA 
 
 Santa Clara De Assis 
 Founded in 1777. It was first built on the shores of San 
 Francisco Bay but completely ruined by storms and high 
 tides. The second structure was rebuilt farther inland but it 
 was not a prosperous mission and soon went to ruin. There are 
 also no signs of the ruins of this mission remaining. 
 
SANTA CLARA DE MONTEREY 
 Situated in the City of Monterey. The building is now in 
 good repair and is being used as a church. 
 
 DELORES 
 
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 Escaping the fire of 1906, the building as it stand? today is 
 
 reminiscent of its original cast, although it has been repaired 
 
 to some extent. It was founded in 1776 and is still used as a 
 
 place of worship. 
 
Memorial 
 
 What Columbus, Washington and Lincoln 
 have been to the United States of America, 
 Father Junipero Serra, a Franciscan priest born 
 on the Island of Majorca in the year 1713, has 
 been to California. 
 
 When the Pacific Coast was as aboriginal as a 
 South Sea Island, young Serra came to spend 
 nine years among the naked Indians. Followed 
 years of preaching in the Mexican College at 
 Fernando, and finally, the presidency of the 
 California Missions under the F. anciscan regime. 
 
 Because he was an individual, harboring a 
 slender frame, handicapped by an unfortunate 
 lameness, a spirit greater than the disasters that 
 beset him; because he placed for all time the 
 State of California in an individual niche of 
 fame, his individuality is etched tOrever on the 
 Golden West. 
 
 Napoleonic in executive ability, a Webster in 
 pursuasive power, a Luther in religious fervor, 
 this Padre of the past swept California before 
 him into a living component of the civilized 
 world. 
 
 His travels by foot covered the western shore 
 from Monterey to San Diego. His first work, 
 done there, put the stamp of finalitj' on the 
 later achievements. 
 
 Thb inspiration of his vibrant personality was 
 communicated to his lieutenants and they 
 carried on what he had so masterly started. He 
 passed away at San Carlos Mission, Monterey, 
 in 1784, thirty-nine years after the founding of 
 the last cathedral in the sun. His body lies at 
 Monterey. 
 
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 right for one short block and then turn to the 
 left onto Alhambra Avenue and follow east to 
 the first well defined forks. Here take the 
 left hand road, which will lead directly to San 
 Gabriel Mission (8.5). After leaving the mission 
 keep straight ahead to the main Inland Route 
 which is rejoined in the vicinity of El Monte 
 (13.4). From here on one follows a well-defined 
 road with no chance of being misguided. 
 
 This road is typical of the Southland, first 
 showing the results of cultivation and later the 
 land as it was before this improvement. From 
 Los Angeles to Pomona, one passes through a 
 country devoted to the raising of wheat and 
 truck products but between Pomona (33.0) and 
 Ontario (39.0) some of the finest orange groves in 
 the South will be found. Not more than ten 
 years ago, this section was a desert of sand and 
 cactus. Between Ontario and Riverside (56.0) 
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 be found, although this is now producing thou- 
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 The City of Riverside is really the hub of this 
 wonderful district, being set in a forest of orange 
 trees on the banks of the Santa Ana River at the 
 foot of Mt. Rubidoux. Many hours may be 
 profitably spent on the drives of this section, but 
 will be incomplete without a visit to the Mission 
 Inn. Here the old mission architecture has been 
 reproduced with wonderful exactness and the 
 collection of Mission and Indian relics is one of 
 the most wonderful in the world. 
 
 After leaving Riverside, the road follows a 
 series of small valleys to Pala (108.0) and on to 
 San Diego (175.0). All this road is very pictur- 
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 The return trip should be made over the Coast 
 Route. On leaving San Diego the road passes 
 through La Jolla (14.0), famous for its bathing 
 and sea-caves, and on to Del Mar (25.0). Here 
 a stop should be made at beautiful Stratford Inn, 
 where one may sit, overlooking the ocean and 
 be served with an excellent luncheon. From this 
 point on to San Juan Capistrano (87.0) and 
 Los Angeles (131.0), the State Highway is 
 almost all completed, making one of the most 
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 20 from North Broadway. This will lead one 
 directly to the San Fernando Mission (24.0), 
 through the San Fernando Valley, one of 
 Southern California's newest acquisitions and 
 fast becoming its most productive section. 
 From this point north there is a choice of three 
 routes, any one of which is picturesque, but the 
 Calabasas route is the most advisable on ac- 
 count of the recently constructed State Highway. 
 This road will lead directly to Ventura (76.0) 
 through the Oxnard Valley, famed for its 
 enormous production of beans. Luncheon may 
 be had at Pierpont Inn or Hotel De Leon, 
 after which a visit to the mission can be made, 
 aU leaving ample time to make the run to 
 Santa Barbara (108.0). This section of the 
 road passes over the newly constructed Rincon 
 Sea Level Route, which is unique in construction 
 and very picturesque. In Santa Barbara the 
 Potter or Arlington Hotels both furnish excellent 
 accommodations. The Mission here is very 
 interesting; also many hours may be spent on 
 the drives of the city. 
 
 The next day's drive wUl take one over the 
 San Marcos Pass, the view from the summit of 
 which is one of the most beautiful in the State. 
 If possible a stop should be made at Mattai's 
 Tavern in Los Olivos (142.0) for luncheon, as 
 cuisine here is excellent, although plain. From 
 here on the road passes through Foxen Canyon 
 to Santa Maria. This town is the center of the 
 Santa Maria Oil Fields, which lie in the hills 
 on the west. 
 
 From Santa Maria (200.0) to San Luis Obispo 
 (232.0) the road passes El Pismo Beach, one 
 of the finest bathing beaches on the Pacific 
 Coast. Nearer San Luis Obispo, one will see 
 one of the largest oil refineries in the West, but 
 never operated. 
 
 The City of San Luis Obispo is very prettily 
 situated, being located in a small valley and 
 entirely surrounded by timbered hills. Some 
 very picturesque drives radiate from here to the 
 various points of interest, svich as the old fishing 
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 From San Luis Obispo north the road passes 
 over the Cuesta Grade into the Santa Mar- 
 guarita Valley and th ru Oak groves and meadows 
 to Paso Robles (261.0), famous for its hot 
 sulphur baths. The surrounding country is all 
 very beautiful, consisting of rolling hills covered 
 with oak and pine trees. 
 
 From Paso Robles to Jolon (307.0) the coun- 
 try is all about the same, but after leaving the 
 latter place the road descends into the Salinas 
 Valley and from this point on to Salinas level 
 territory will be found. A side trip to Monterey 
 and the Forty Mile Drive should not be missed, 
 as these places, as well as Carmel Mission, are 
 among the most picturesque places of Northern 
 California. Many delightful days may be spent 
 in the vicinity of Monterey and Pacific Grove, 
 touring to the beaches and the Big Trees. 
 
 After leaving Salinas, the road winds over the 
 San Juan Grade to San Juan, a sleepy little 
 town at the foot of the hills, and on up the Santa 
 Clara Valley to San Jose (427.0). Here the road 
 diverges, one leading to Mission San Jose and on 
 into Oakland (471.0), and the other following the 
 peninsula to San Francisco (473.0). Both routes 
 are very beautiful and should be taken in before 
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 is maintained by the Club for locating 
 stolen automobiles and accessories. 
 The Club also maintains a LOST and 
 FOUND Department. 
 
 $11.00 pays for initiation fee ($5) and six months 
 dues in advance ($6). 
 
 Every motorist in the State is directly or indi- 
 rectly benefitted by the operations of the 
 Automobile Club of Southern California. 
 
Officers and Board of Directors 
 of the 
 Automobile Club of Southern California 
 
 FRED L. BAKER, President 
 W. L. VALENTINE, Vice-President 
 H. G. MILLER, 2nd Vice-President 
 
 A. C. BALCH 
 
 H. W. KELLER 
 
 W. H. BOOTH 
 
 E. G. KUSTER 
 
 E. T. OFF 
 
 FRED W. JACKSON 
 
 FRANK A. MILLER 
 
 HARRY CHANDLER 
 
 P. H. RICE 
 
 W. S. BENCHLEY 
 
 MONT. P. CHUBB 
 
 W. E. DRURY 
 J. V. WACHTEL 
 
 E. G. KUSTER, General Counsel. 
 STANDISH L. MITCHELL, Secretary. 
 
 SAN DIEGO HEADQUARTERS 
 U. S. Grant Hotel 
 San Diego, Calif. 
 
 PASADENA HEADQUARTERS 
 25 North Los Robles Avenue 
 Pasadena, Calif. 
 
 SANTA BARBARA HEADQUARTERS 
 
 Chamber of Commerce 
 
 Santa Barbara, Calif. 
 
LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 
 
 017 186 424 0,