Welcome aboard Pink Monorail. I'm your pilot, Michelle Viadolid, and next to me is my co-pilot, Noah Viya-Dolid.

Hey, everybody.

Last time, we talked about how Disney went to the World's Fair.

This time, we're going to talk about Bush Gardens, which started as a

beer garden in 1906, as an animal-themed park in 1959, in Van Nuys in 1966, and in 1975 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Also Houston, but that was so brief. We'll talk about it later. Okay.

Adolphus Bush was the co-founder of Anheuser-Busch.

He had a winter home in Pasadena, California, and he opened his expansive gardens to the public in 1906.

They remained open to the public until 1937, when the land was subdivided and became housing. Some landscape fixtures from the gardens remain.

The site is about 38 acres and it's west of Orange Boulevard in Pasadena.

There was a millionaire's row of mansions, and Bush called his Ivy Hall because of the ivy that grew over it.

The Wrigley House was there like Wrigley Joingham and the Gamble House remains, Procter and Gamble.

And that was from back to the future.

That really is the Millionaire's Row.

Really was.

There were upper and lower gardens, aviaries, and water features.

At its peak, the gardens

employed 40 full-time gardeners. The gardens were designed by Robert Gordon Fraser,

who lived there until it closed. Admission to the lower garden cost 35 cents, and some

fencing remains in the neighborhood on the corner of bush gardens and Arroyo streets.

Two of the seven concrete log water fountains remain, one at Grants Farm in St. Louis, and one at the end of a driveway of a private Pasadena residence.

The Lower Gardens' Mystic Hut is now gone, but the foundation and surrounding pools remain.

The Grecian Pergola was enclosed and became a private home.

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