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Title: Santa Barbara and Montecito, past and present
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Southworth, John R. (John Reginald), 1866-
Subjects: Santa Barbara (Calif.) Montecito (Calif.)
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif., Oreña studios
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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,.-*,^S;«??5**?•«/; Country Club, Montecilo. when the mid-winter tournament opens early inJanuary. The presence of at least four poloteams from New York, Toronto, Calgary, andVancouver, B. C, is assured for the Santa Bar-bara tourney, and also a number of individualplayers. All these players expect to be here forthe inaugural matches commencing on January1st, 1921. A large number of other teams, in-cluding Del Monte, Pebble Beach, Midwick, 236
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SANTA BARBARA San Mateo, and Riverside, will also participate. The president of the club is Mr. ClintonBennett Hale. Other Montecito clubs include:—The SantaBarbara Country Club, with its fine golf courseand club-house; the Montecito Home Club ohSan Ysidro Road, and the Hot Springs Club. Montecito is especially celebrated as havingbeen the home of a mammoth grape vine, whichupon its death was taken east and exhibited at thePhiladelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876.This vine was twice as large as the famous vineat Fontainebleu, France, larger than any foundamong the villas in the vicinity of Rome, andsurpassed any of which Pliny gives record in hishistory and travels. The Kings Vine at Hamp-ton Court, England, the largest and most notedin the Old World, only equals in diameter one ofthe main branches of this vine. The history of the Montecito vine is bothcurious and interesting; various theories respect-ing its origin are based on tradition, and al-though founded on fact, have an ai
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