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Here you can see that there were still palms languishing along the Avenue of Palms as the buildings came crashing down. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) · (newspapers.com) |
Everyone knows that the palms came back to Niles from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, right? But where is this written? I've searched for years for some record or news article that talked about it.
The Exposition ended on December 4th, 1915. The palms were still there four months later. The water pipes were removed in the spring of 2016. A plea to the community to save the palms was made in October 2016. After a summer with no water? And then still there a year later.
Is there any truth to the palms "coming home"? Or is it fakelore, a story that people made up and people like to hear.
Why wouldn't it be equally interesting to know where they actually went after the Exposition?
