Here is a color photograph of Busch Sunken Garden Pasadena , California. Mounted on heavy stock black mount stock. The image is 3 ½" x 11" with the overall size being appx 6’ x 13 ½". This might have been a long postcard, but I am not sure. The image has a crease down the middle as though it was once folded. Some edge wear to the mount.

In the early part of the twentieth century (about 1905), Adolphus Busch lived on a spacious estate in Pasadena, California. His home was spectacular, overlooking the floor of a very special canyon, the Arroyo Seco. The entire property was a large tract of land that bordered Bellefontaine St. on the northern end to Madeline Dr. on the southern end. The Arroyo Seco lies west of S. Arroyo Blvd. The Old Mill may still be viewed near the gate at 485 Madeline Drive. Mr. Busch had an idea to beautify his estate, which consisted of a large section of the Arroyo. He constructed some of the most beautiful gardens ever seen in California. When offered to the City for use as a public park in 1938, Pasadena’s Board of Directors turned down the Busch family’s offer. The entire Busch Gardens acreage was then turned over to developers to build private homes. So, unfortunately, most of what you are seeing does not exist today, but restoring the beauty of the past is now in process in the lower Arroyo Seco.