VISITING WITH HUELL HOWSER HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GRANT FROM THE RALPH M. PARSON'S FOUNDATION.
>> Huell: HELLO EVERYBODY I'M HUELL HOWSER.
AND HERE WE ARE IN ARCADIA GETTING READY TO HAVE WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE TODAY.
INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO EVERYBODY.
>> I'M PETER THE CEO OF THE ARBORIUM.
>> Huell: THIS IS A PLACE THAT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT FOR YEARS.
BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'RE EVER GOING TO SPEND SOME QUALITY TIME HERE.
FIRST OFF I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW JUST WHAT IS ARBORITUM.
>> IT'S A PLACE THAT SPECIALIZED IN WOODY PLANTS.
>> WE'RE FOCUSING MORE AND MORE ON THE PEOPLE AND PLANTS.
WHICH IS CALLED ETHNOPATNY.
>> Huell: THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL VIEW.
HOW MANY VISITORS DO YOU HAVE A YEAR?
>> JUST ABOUT 3600 MEMBERSHIPS.
WE HAVE ABOUT 3000 SCHOOL CHILDREN COMING ON ORGANIZED TOUR.
>> Huell: WHAT DO THEY DO?
IS IT LIKE A BOTANICAL GARDEN.
>> YES, IT'S A BOTANICAL GARDEN, ACTUALLY WE'RE THINKING OF CHANGING OUR NAME.
WE HAVE LOTS OF EDUCATIONAL COURSES THAT TEACH BOTANY AND BOTANICAL ART AND COURSES IN MANDARIN, SPANISH.
WE'VE GOT ARTIST COMING IN HERE AND PAINTING, THIS IS A FABULOUS FABULOUS, NOT ONLY FOR EDUCATION BUT TO EXPERIENCE SOMETHING THAT'S HARD TO COME BY THESE DAYS.
AND THAT'S A SAFE BEAUTIFUL QUIET, SERENE.
>> Huell: FEELING PEACEFUL ALREADY.
>> EXACTLY.
>> Huell: NOW THIS IS L.A. PARK?
>> NO NOT A PARK.
WE'RE UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATIONS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, BUT IT'S A PARK.
THIS IS NOT ACTIVE RECREATION THIS IS PASSIVE RECREATION.
>> Huell: PASSIVE.
>> EDUCATION IS OUR MISSION.
>> Huell: MELLOW PASSIVE.
>> MELLOW PASSIVE BUT EXCITING.
>> Huell: I'M GLAD YOU ADDED THAT I WAS GETTING READY TO FALL ASLEEP.
>> NO NO NO.
>> Huell: WE'VE GOT THE DUCKS SWIMMING IN THE LAGOON.
THIS IS A VERY FAMOUS LAGOON TOO.
>> YES, THIS IS A SAG POND.
IT'S A DSHL -- THE WATER THAT F THE POND FILLS UP NATURALLY.
IT'S NOT AN ACTIVE STREAM ABOVE GROUND SO WE DEPEND ON THE WATER TABLE.
AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE A BIT LOW.
>> Huell: EVERYBODY IS.
>> AS FAR AS WATER.
>> Huell: YEAH EXACTLY.
>> I KNOW AND WE'RE HOPING FOR A OF RAIN THIS WINTER.
WE'RE LUCKY THAT WE'RE IN A MEDICINETERRANEAN CLIMATE AND O MEDICINETERRANEAN SPECIFIC.
>> Huell: THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
WE CAN STAND RIGHT HERE AND JUST LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY ALL MORNING.
BUT WE'VE GOT PLACES TO GO AND THAT'S THE PLACE WE'RE GOING RIGHT OVER THERE, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THESE PLANTS.
CONVINCE COME ON OVER HERE, THIS IS YOUR CUE BECAUSE WE'VE SET THIS WHOLE THING UP AND NOW WE'RE GETTING READY TO GO -- DON'T LEAVE US YET.
>> OKAY.
>> WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT'S OVER THERE AND WHAT THE ARBORITUM IS ALL ABOUT.
THERE IS A LOT OF GREAT STORIES CONNECTED.
>> A LOT OF HISTORY.
>> Huell: WITH THAT?
>> WHAT'S IT CALLED?
>> THE QUEEN ANNE COTTAGE.
>> Huell: AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF THE DAY HERE AT THE ARBORITUM.
OKAY BEFORE WE GET TO THE QUEEN ANNE'S COTTAGE.
CONVINCE AND I HAVE -- VINCE AND I HAVE STOPPED AT A PLACE.
I NOTICED THIS AND THIS LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER EARLIER CHAPTER OF THE HISTORY OF THE ARBORITUM.
>> THIS IS IN DEED.
NATIVE AMERICANS, THE TONVA TRIBE LIVED HERE THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE QUOTE UNQUOTE CIVILIZATION CAME AND THESE ARE RECREATIONS OF THE KIAs OR PLACES WHERE THEY LIVED IN.
THEY MOVED AROUND LOOKING FOR GREAT PLACES TO LIVE.
SO THEY HAD FIND PLACES WHERE THEY CAN HUNT AND WHERE FOOD WAS GROWING AND THEY STUMBLED ACROSS THIS LAKE AND THEY SETTLED HERE.
>> Huell: SO YOU MEAN THE LAKE WAS HERE EVEN THERE?
>> YES, AND THAT'S WHAT DREW THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS TO WHAT WE NOW KNOW IS ARCADIA.
>> Huell: OKAY, SO THIS IS THE FIRST HAPPEN STER OVER HERE AND THIS IS THE SECOND CHAPTER WHICH I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE AND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS EXISTED.
BUT THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING PART OF THE HISTORY.
>> THIS IS THE ORIGINAL LAND GRANT OWNERSHIP OF THE ENTIRE VIRTUALLY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY IN 1839.
THE GOVERNOR ESTABLISHED A GRANT TO A HUGO REED, HE WAS A SKOTS MAN BUT BECAUSE HE HAD MARRIED AN INDIA, HE WAS ALLOWED TO GET LAND.
AND THIS WAS HIS ORIGINAL HOME.
NO THIS IS THE SPOT WHERE IT LAID.
BUT THE HOME ITSELF HAS NOT LASTED THAT LONG SO THIS IS A RECREATION AND A DOBY RECREATION.
AND ALONG 1875 ALONG CAME A MAN BY THE CAME OF BALDWIN WHO BOUGHT THIS BECAUSE SHE WAS GOING TO BE THE BASIS OF HIS HE ESTATE.
>> Huell: ALIAS BALDWIN.
>> LUCKY WE CALL HIM.
>> Huell: NOW WE'RE GETTING INTO AN INTERESTING PART OF THE STORY.
BECAUSE LUCKY BALDWIN IS A NAME THAT I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE HEARD, BUT VERY FEW OF US REALLY KNOW THE STORY OF LUCKY BALDWIN.
CAN YOU GIVE US A THUMB NAIL SKETCH OF WHO LUCKY BALDWIN WAS AND WHY HE'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO EVEN KNOW ABOUT?
>> LUCKY BALDWIN WAS BORN IN OHIO AND CAME OUT TO CALIFORNIA TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE.
HE WAS BORN IN 1828 WAS QUITE AN ENTREPRENEUR EVEN AS A YOUNGSTER MOVED TO CALIFORNIA AND STARTED BUYING SHARES IN SILVER MINES.
AND IN FACT HIS NAME LUCKY CAME FROM THE FACT THAT AT ONE POINT HE WANTED TO SELL ALL OF HIS SHARES, BUT HIS STOCKBROKER, HIS ATTORNEY COULD NOT GET INTO HIS SAFE BECAUSE LUCKY HAD GONE OFF TO EUROPE AND THE GUY COULD NOT SELL THE STOCK CERTIFICATES AND THEY WENT THE OTHER WAY AND BECAME A MILLIONAIRE.
SO HE BECAME LUCKY BALDWIN AND BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO LOOKED FOR FORTUNE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
STOMACH -- STUMBLED UPON THIS PLACE AND FIGURED OUT HE WOULD OWN THIS AS ESTATE INCLUDING BALDWIN HILLS AND WE'RE ON BALDWIN AVENUE.
>> Huell: HE FOUNDED ARCADIA.
>> AND FIRST MAYOR.
>> Huell: HE WAS QUITE THE LAY''S MAN.
>> MARRIED FOUR TIMES.
>> Huell: AND HAD A LOT OF LADY FRIENDS ALONG THE WAY?
>> SO THE STORY GOES.
WE KNOW HE MARRIED FOUR TIMES AND THE QUEEN ANNE'S COTTAGE WAS HIS HONEYMOON COTTAGE.
>> Huell: WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THIS COTTAGE WHICH IS ONE OF THE CENTERPIECES HERE TODAY AND VERY MUCH A PART OF HISTORY.
>> HE NEVER LIVED HERE, BUT HIS GUESTS LIVED OVER HERE IN THE QUEEN ANNE COTTAGE.
>> Huell: AND LOOK AT THIS VIEW WITH THESE PALM TREES.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL PLACE HERE IN ARCADIA.
>> AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOWER, YOU MIGHT RECALL IF YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH, THE SERIES, THE TELEVISION SERIES, FANTASY ISLAND AND TATOO STANDING THERE AND SAYING "THE PLANE BOSS!
THE PLANE!".
>> Huell: NICE PATHWAY.
JUST GETTING THIS MUCH CLOSER TO IT, IT REALLY HAS AN ELEGANCE TO IT.
>> YES IN DEED.
IT WAS A BUILT IN 1995 AS A HONEYMOON COTTAGE AND NEVER WAS USED FOR THAT PURPOSE SO IT WAS USED FOR A GUEST HOUSE.
AND HIS GUESTS ALL LIVED HERE, YOU MIGHT CALL IT A DREAM HOUSE FOR MANY WOMEN, FOUR BEDROOMS AND NO KITCHEN.
>> Huell: BUT HE LIVED IN THE ADOBE.
>> YES, AND THAT WAS HIS RESIDENT.
>> Huell: SO IT WAS A BIG DEAL TO BE INVITED BY THIS RICH BUSINESSMAN TO SPEND SOME TIME AT THIS BEAUTIFUL COTTAGE OUT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THESE ACREAGE AND ALL THESE TREES.
>> AND TO GET OUT HERE FROM LOS ANGELES BY HORSE AND BUGGY.
>> Huell: NOW YOU MENTIONED "FANTASY ISLAND" WHICH WAS SHOT HERE.
>> MANY MANY MOVIES WAY BACK IN THE VERY EARLY 40s, JOHNNY WISEMOORE.
TARZAN FILMED ALL OF HIS MOVIES.
>> Huell: IN THE LAKE?
>> YES, BUT HE WOULD NOT SWIM IN THE WATER.
BILL CROSBIE BUILT MANY OF THEIR ROAD SETS HERE.
SO THE ROAD TO SING APORE WAS REALLY THE ROAD TO ARCADIA.
BILL CROSBIE SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE.
>> Huell: DID SHE SHOOT HERE BECAUSE OF THE LAKE OR THE HOUSE?
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL VIEW.
IT'S GOT A NICE KIND OF TROPICAL JUNGLE KIND OF --.
>> WITH THE LANIE.
>> Huell: YEAH.
>> WE HAD A MOVIE FILMED HERE CALLED "SUSPICIOUS" SAT ON THAT PORCH OVERLOOKING THE LAKE.
SO THE MOVIES DID NOT INCLUDE THE COTTAGE BECAUSE HE WAS SUPPOSE TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF OF AFRICA.
RECENTLY THEY FILMED "ANACONDA".
>> Huell: WITH THE BIG SNAKE.
>> YES, AND DID NOT SHOW THE COTTAGE.
>> Huell: THE COTTAGE WAS HERE SINCE BUILT IN 1995.
>> YES.
>> Huell: AND THIS SETTING HAS REMAINED UNTOUCHED?
>> REMAINED UNTOUCHED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
I THINK AS PETER MENTIONED EARLIER, THIS IS REALLY A SAG POND IT WAS DEVELOPED BY THE SAME MOVEMENT THAT CREATED THE HILLSIDE BEHIND THE TRACK OF SANTA ANITA CREATED THIS SAG POND, THAT ROSE AND THAT DROPPED AND WATER BUBBLED UP.
>> Huell: DID LUCKY BALDWIN HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SANTA ANNITA?
>> HE BROUGHT HORSE RACING TO ARCADIA IN 1907.
>> Huell: ISN'T THAT INTERESTING.
HOW'S HE'S INTER TWINED WITH THE HISTORY OF OUR ASPECTS.
>> YES AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IN ARCADIA DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HIS WHOLE AORA BROUGHT TO ARCADIA AND THERE WAS HIS 7,000 ACRE RANCHO NAMED AFTER HIM.
BUT 47,000 ACRE IS 76 SQUARE MILES THIS WAS A HUGE HUGE PROPERTY AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY THE ARBORITUM WAS THE CENTER PEOPLE.
THIS WAS LUCKY'S ESTATE.
>> Huell: I WONDER IF HE WAS LUCKY WITH THE HORSES.
>> HE WAS, HE RAISED THOROUGH BREADS AND WON FOUR AMERICAN DERBY WHICH IS EQUIVALENT OF THE AMERICAN DERBY.
>> Huell: CAN WE GO OUTSIDE.
>> WE USUALLY ONLY HAVE THIS OPEN TWICE A YEAR FOR MOTHERS DAY AND CHRISTMAS.
BUT FOR OUR VIEWING AUDIENCES WE OPENED IT AND WE'LL LOOK AT SOME OF THE ROOMS.
>> Huell: WE'RE ON THE VARANDA WHERE MANY SAT WHEN THEY FILMED THE MOVIE?
>> "SUSPICIOUS".
>> Huell: AND GETTING UP CLOSER TO THE HOUSE, IT'S RED AND WHITE.
>> YES IT'S PART OF THE ARCHITECTURE.
IT'S CALLED QUEEN ANNE, NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS HERE IN FACTS I DON'T KNOW WHO SHE WAS.
>> Huell: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
>> IT'S JUST THE TYPE WHERE YOU SEE ALL OF THE LITTLE POINTS COMING DOWN, THE TOURETS ALL THAT HAVE IS PART OF QUEEN ANNE'S ARCHITECTURE.
>> Huell: LOOK HOW INTRICATE THESE THINGS ARE.
AND WHY WAS IT PAINTED RED AND WHITE?
>> HE LIKED RED AND WHITE.
AND THE GENTLEMEN THAT DESIGNED THE HOUSE WAS THE ARCHITECT BY THE NAME OF BENNETT WAS THE ARCHITECT FOR THE STATE CAPITOL UP IN THE SACRAMENTO AND IT WAS HIS DAUGHTER THAT WAS LUCKY BALDWIN'S FOURTH WIFE.
SO THEY DESIGNED THIS HOUSE AS THE HONEYMOON COTTAGE FOR THE DAUGHTER AND THE DAUGHTER'S NEW OLD HUSBAND.
>> Huell: THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL -- THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL VIEW JUST LOOKING OUT HERE.
THESE -- IT FRAMES IT ALL SO WELL, DOESN'T IT.
>> IT DOES IN DEED.
>> Huell: YOU CAN SEE HOW IT WOULD BE FUN JUST TO SIT HERE AND LOOK OUT AT THIS.
THIS IS AN AMAZING PANORAMA HERE, LOOKING AT THE TREES HERE.
>> AND THIS IS ALL ORIGINAL, THIS IS WHAT LUCKY BALDWIN LOOKED OUT AT.
AND THEY ACTUALLY HAD GANDOLAS IN THE LAKE AND A GREAT PLACE FOR THE SOCIAL LIGHTS OF THE EARLY 1900ING -- 1900s IN CALIFORNIA.
>> Huell: WE'RE INSIDE THE COTTAGE OF WHAT WAS PROBABLY THE MUSIC ROOM?
>> YES IN DEED.
>> Huell: THIS IS A VERY ELEGANT ROOM.
IS THAT LUCKY OVER THERE?
>> THAT'S THE MAN, THAT'S A PAINTING OF HIM.
THERE ARE SEVERAL OF HIM.
THIS WAS WAS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE ROOMS, THE PARLOR FOR ENTERTAINING THE GUESTS.
THEY HUNG OUT HERE BASICALLY, AND WERE ABLE TO ENJOY EACH OTHER'S COMPANY WHERE AS THE OTHER BEDROOMS ALL HAD ENTRANCEED OUT TO THE PORCH.
SO THIS IS WHERE THEY KIND OF CONGREGATEED.
>> Huell: I'M LOOKING AT THIS PEACOCK, WHAT IS A STUFF PEACOCK DOING HERE?
>> THIS SHOWS WHAT LUCKY BALDWIN'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS AND THAT WAS PEACOCK BLUE, AND YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF THIS BLUE COLOR.
HE LIKED IT SO MUCH THAT HE IMPORTED LATE IN THE 1800s SIX PEACOCK FROM INDIA, THREE MATCHED PAIR, BROUGHT THEM HERE TO ARCADIA TO HIS GROUNDS.
THEY PROPAGATED AND DID SO WELL THAT ALL OF THE CLUTCHS THAT WE HAVE IN ARCADIA IN PALOS VERDES ESTATES ALL CAME FROM LUCKY'S THREE ORIGINAL PEA FALL.
>> AND IF YOU LIKE OR DISLIKE ALL THE PEA FALL THANK OR CURSE LUCKY BALDWIN WHO BROUGHT THE FIRST FLEE PAIR HERE.
>> THAT'S IT FROM INDIA.
HE JUST LOVED THEM SO MUCH.
>> AND HIS DESCENTISS -- HAVING MULTIPLYING.
>> Huell: WHAT IS THE DEAL ON THE CHANDELIER?
>> HE GASFIED EVERYTHING HERE.
HE DIDN'T LIKE TO BURN WOOD, HE WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL TREE-HUGGERS IF YOU WILL.
AND ANYBODY WHO CHOPPED DOWN A FREE, OR MISTREATED A HORSE, YOU WOULD BE FIRED.
HE WOULD NOT EVEN ALLOW FIRE WOOD TO BURN IN THE STOVE.
>> Huell: YOU'RE KIDDING.
>> SO HE GASFIED EVERYTHING WITH NAFA AND THAT'S HOW ALL THE FURNACES WERE FIRED AND THE CHANDELIERS WERE ALL GENERATED THROUGH NAFA GAS.
>> Huell: SO HE WAS ONE THE EARLY ENVIRONMENTALIST.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
SHE'S ARE THE THINGS THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT HIM.
IT HE WAS WAY BEFORE HIS TIME LOVING THE ENVIRONMENT.
>> Huell: AND WHAT'S THE DEAL HERE?
>> WELL HE HAD PLAYING CARDS MADE UP.
DECKS OF PLAYING CARDS AND THOSE INCLUDED PICTURES OF VARIOUS THINGS THAT WENT ON ON THE PROPERTY AND ON THE BACK, PICTURES OF HIS FAVORITE THOROUGH BREDS.
>> Huell: SO HE REALLY LIKED HORSES.
>> HE RAISED THOROUGH BRED HORSES HERE ON THE PROPERTY.
IF WE HAD HAD TIME TO GO ON THE MICHELIN AVENUE, NOTHING BUT HOMES NOW, BUT THAT'S WHERE HIS TRAINING TRACKS AND HORSE STABLE WERE.
HE TREATED HIS HORSES AND THOSE WHO TOOK CARE OF THE HORSES, VERY WELL.
>> Huell: LOOK AT THIS, OBVIOUSLY, ORIGINAL TILE IN THE ENTRANCE HALL?
>> YES, AFTER HE DIED IN 1909, THIS HOUSE WENT INTO GREAT DISSREPAIR.
A -- ANITA THE DAUGHTER TOOK THINGS APART AND HAD THEM STORED AWAY, FOR YEARS ASSUMING THAT SOMEBODY WOULD WANT TORCEATE HIS LIFE.
>> Huell: SHE WAS LOOKING AHEAD.
>> THIS IS PRICELESS RIGHT HERE.
WHO IS THIS?
>> THIS IS JENNY DEXER, THIS IS HIS THIRD WIFE AND ANITA'S MOTHER.
SHEFLS THE -- SHE WAS THE REAL LOVE OF BALDWIN'S LIFE.
>> Huell: DID SHE DIE?
>> YES AND WHEN HIS FOURTH WIFE, BENNETT DIDN'T LIKE THE LIFESTYLE HERE, HE REDEDICATED TO JENNY DEXER HIS THIRD WIFE.
THE REAL LOVE OF HIS LIFE.
SO THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE, YOU'LL FIND PAINTINGS OF HER AND PEACOCK BLUE.
>> Huell: THIS WAS AN ARBORITUM WHEN LUCKY BALDWIN WAS LIVING HERE?
>> NO LUCKY BALDWIN LIVED HERE, THIS WAS HIS WORKING RANCH, HIS ESTATES.
>> Huell: PRIVATE GARDENS.
>> Huell: SO WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE TODAY IS JUST WHAT LUCKY BALDWIN HAD.
AND IN FACT THAT'S WHY IN 1947 WHEN DR.ERERS WAS LOOKING SPECIFICALLY FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR BOTANICAL GARDEN, STUMBLED UPON THIS AND IT WAS PERFECT BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY VIRTUALLY A BOTANIC GARDEN IN THE ROUGH.
>> Huell: WOW.
>> >> AND THE CHANDLER FAMILY FROM THE "L.A. TIMES" WERE SUBSEQUENT OWNERS.
IT WAS A GREAT PLACE TO HAVE PEACE AND QUIET IN A GROWING CITY AND IT WAS JUST LIKE THIS.
>> Huell: WHAT'S THIS OVER HERE.
>> THIS IS THE COACH BARN, YOU SEE IT LOOKS LIKE THE QUEEN ANNE COTTAGE.
>> Huell: SO HE HAD COACHS.
>> YES AND WE'LL SEE A COUPLE INSIDE, AND HE IMPORTED THEM.
THESE WERE HIS LIMOS AND HIS HORSES WHO PULLED THE COACHS LIVED HERE IN THE COACH BARN.
AND A LOT OF THOROUGH BRED HORSES BUT THEY LIVED FURTHER WEST IN THE PROPERTY AND WHAT IS NOW MICHLINDA AVENUE.
>> Huell: SO HE BUILT THESE TWO TO GO TOGETHER.
>> YES, EVEN THE DOG HORSE.
>> Huell: OH MY GOD, A QUEEN ANNE DOG HOUSE, YOU'RE KIDDING.
>> WHAT EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE.
>> Huell: HE LITERALLY BUILT A DOG HOUSE.
>> THAT'S IT AND THEY ARE PICTURES OF HIS MASSCHIF WITH HIS DOGS.
>> Huell: WE'RE INSIDE A BARN, BUT THIS IS NOT A BARN THIS IS BETTER THAN MY HOUSE.
>> HE TREATED HIS HORSED BETTER THAN WE LIVE.
HIS HORSED WHO PULLED HIS COACHES, NOT HIS THOROUGH BRED BUT JUST HIS HORSED LIVED IN THIS FACILITY ALL OF THE WOOD, ALL OF THIS IMPORTED CEDAR FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
>> Huell: LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL STALLS WITH ALL THIS BEAUTIFUL WORK AND WHAT WAS THIS?
>> THIS IS WHERE THE HORSES GOT FED.
ALL OF THE FEED WAS KEPT UPSTAIRS AND CAME DOWN THE SHOOT AND ALSO THE GRAIN CAME INTO THESE AND THEY WOULD SHOVEL IT AND PUT IT THERE.
>> Huell: WOW, THIS IS ALL --.
>> AND THEY WOULD WASH IT UNDERNEATH FOR SANITARY PURPOSES.
>> Huell: BOY, AS BEAUTIFUL STABLE AS I HAVE BEEN IN.
>> THIS INDICATES THAT LUCKY BALDWIN HAD A WORKING RANCH, GREW MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY FRUITS, VEGETABLES, GRAPES, MANUFACTURED OR WINE.
>> Huell: RIGHT HERE?
>> RIGHT HERE IN THE FACILITY.
AND THEY WERE WORLD FAMOUS WON GOLD MEDALS.
>> Huell: NOW HERE IS THE COACH.
>> THIS IS SUNDAY GO TO MEETING COACH.
THIS IS HIS LIMO.
>> Huell: WOW.
>> HE WOULD HOOK UP HIS HORSED AND IMPORTED THIS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA WORLD'S FAIR.
>> Huell: WHAT IS THIS THING?
>> FIRE ENGINE.
THAT WOULD BE PULLED AROUND THE PROPERTY IN CASE THERE WAS A FIRE.
BUT THIS WAS PULLED BY PEOPLE.
>> Huell: I'M LOOKING AT THE WOOD HERE, THE CEILING AND THE BRACE AND THE IRON WORK, IT'S JUST A SPECTACULAR -- LOOK AT THE LOOK AT THE DOORWAY HERE.
>> YOU CAN DO WORSE THAN A HORSE IN HIS EMPLOYEE.
>> Huell: THAT'S BEEN OUR QUICK VISIT TO THE ARBORITUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH VINCE FOR THE TOUR.
>> THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
>> Huell: AND FOR BRINGING US UP TO SPEED ON THAT LUCKY BALDWIN WHO WAS A COLORFUL AND IMPORTANT CHARACTER, A PART OF CALIFORNIA HISTORY.
>> SOME DAY I MAY MEET HIM BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT'S OING TO BE DOING.
HE'S >> Huell: WE HAVE HAD A WONDERFUL DAY.
AND WE HAVE JUST SCRATCHED THE SURFACE, I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE VISIT HERE EVERY YEAR.
>> YEP.
>> Huell: BUT STILL UNDISCOVERED.
>> WE'RE TRYING TO ATTRACT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE TO THE ARBORITUM, BECAUSE THE ARBORITUM IS A JULY THAT NEEDS TO BE CHERISHED AND VISITED OFTEN, IT'S ALWAYS CHANGING.
>> Huell: WE JUST SCRAPED THE SURFACE.
WE VISITED THE QUEEN ANNE COTTAGE.
>> AND DON'T FORGET THE QUEEN ANNE DOG HOUSE.
>> Huell: AND THE QUEEN ANNE DOG HOUSE AND LOOK OVER HERE, THIS IS THE NEW HERB GARDEN GOING IN.
WE DON'T EVEN HAVE THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE TELEPHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN.
IF THERE WAS AN EVER A PLACE TO HANG OUT AND MELLOW OUT, AND RELEAVE YOURSELF OF STRESS AND BE SURROUNDED NOT ONLY HISTORY BUT NATURAL BEAUT, THE ARBORITUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS GREAT.
AND WE WILL BE BACK.
WE CAN DO A TEN-PART SERIES.
TODAY WE FOCUSED ON LUCKY BALDWIN.
>> THAT'S A PEACOCK THE MALE OF THE PEACOCK FAMILY.
>> Huell: AND THAT'S A DESCENDANT OF ONE OF THE SIX THAT WERE BROUGHT HERE BY LUCKY BALDWIN BACK IN?
>> BACK IN THE LATE 1800s.
>> Huell: SO IF YOU COME TO THE ARBORITUM -- WHEN YOU COME TO THE ARBORITUM YOU'LL BE SURROUNDED BY LOTS OF COLORFUL LOUD BEAUTIFUL AND HISTORIC LUCKY BALDWIN PEACOCKS AND PEA FOWL.
>> AND WATCH WHERE YOU WALK.
>> Huell: [LAUGHTER].
VISITING WITH HUELL HOWSER HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GRANT FROM THE RALPH M. PARSON'S FOUNDATION.
