Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980, LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176pp., 1900
"The (Los Angeles) population, which had reached 102,479 in 1900, now included only ten percent who were native born, the majority of new residents being fundamentalists of moderate means from the East and Middle West."
" . . . The Southern California Automobile Club was founded in 1900 by a small group of these [LAAC members] men."