Pasadena, CALIFORNIA - Bush's Garden - Swastika:  The original Busch Gardens park, Busch Gardens Pasadena, which opened to the public in 1906.  The original Busch Gardens closed in 1938, during the Great Depression. Developers bought and sub-divided the property, eventually building a neighborhood of homes that obliterated most of the old park.  The card's reverse contains a swastika.  The swastika’s use in India dates to the Indus Valley Civilization city of Harappa and came to represent Vishnu in Hinduism.  In Chinese Taoism, the swastika is a symbol of eternity. For Tibetan Buddhism, it is emblematic of the element of Earth.  It is a common practice for Hindus to draw Swastika symbols on the doors and entrances to their houses during festivals, which is believed to symbolize an invitation to goddess Lakshmi.  The symbol has a long history in Europe reaching back to antiquity. In modern times, following a brief surge of popularity as a good luck symbol in Western culture, the swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920, which used it as a hate-filled symbol of the Aryan race.  The use of the swastika as a good luck symbol caused its employment in many greeting cards of the early 1900 (the so-called "golden era" of postcard), well before the Nazi usurpation.  This Divided Back Era (1907-15) postcard is in good condition but shows some edge wear.  The Benham Co. Los Angeles, Cal. No. A-8771.