>From "Nuestro Pueblo - Los Angeles, City of Romance" Copyright 1940, by Charles H. Owens and Joseph F. Seewerker THE TREE THAT GREW WITH LOS ANGELES Not often is a tree honored by a city. Less frequently still does a tree become a symbol of the city itself. But a towering palm at the entrance of Exposition Park in Los Angeles is the City's Tree, officially chosen and marked. Sometime in the eighties the palm was planted before Central Station. For more than a quarter-century it marked the portal of the city, the first tree to greet hurrying newcomers brought by the trains. In 1914 construction of a new station was begun and the palm was carefully moved to its present site, overlooking the park, and the coliseum with its arch and peristyle. Upon a bronze plaque is a tribute: 'A mute witness to the growth of Los Angeles from a community of pueblo days to a great world metropolis today.'