Word: escondido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Escondido, Calif...
...star gazing. Tucked away in the orange groves of Escondido, in southern California, is the private observatory called El Amiga Observatorio. It is an amateur astronomer's dream, built to Friend's specifications by local craftsmen. The 16-in. telescope is one of the largest owned by an individual. During the war, when he had to cultivate, irrigate and prune his 1,265-tree, 14-acre orange grove.almost singlehanded, Friend lost some star-gazing time. He now says sadly that "some faint comets probably got away from...
...this block is bolted the large telescope - a 16-in. reflector in a 12-ft. galvanized iron tube. On the lower side are ascension and declination meters and counterbalance weights. The observatory is roofless. A square wooden platform provides working space. The lenses were ground in a small Escondido garage-workshop...
Edward Austin Fellowships to Richard N. Frye 1G, of Danville, III.; Marshall DcM. Gates Jr. 2G, of Port Arthur, Tex.; Louis Hartz '40, of Omaha, Nebr.; and Richard R. Whetsone, of Escondido, Calif...