- A costly 1926 decision to move an Arlington Hotel Dragon Palm to Alameda Park highlights Santa Barbara’s century-long history of tree preservation disputes.
We’ve been a city of tree huggers for at least a century, according to this story in the local paper in October 1926.
This wasn’t just any old tree. It was a majestic Dragon Palm that had been growing at the Arlington Hotel – the hotel that collapsed during the 1925 earthquake.
The City Park Board – on its own – approved its costly removal from the hotel ruins to Alameda Park…