Neighborhood Spotlight: Cypress Park's assets flow freely

When the expedition of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola came upon the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and Los Angeles River in 1769 — their first sight of water after many days of trekking west across the dusty floor of the San Gabriel Valley — the scene that greeted them moved Fray Juan Crespi to record that the area was a “very spacious valley, well grown with cottonwoods and alders, among which ran a beautiful river.”