Pasadena

Author : Joseph C. Dunn,Sandy Gillis,Jill Alison Ganon
Publisher : Prospect Park Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : 097539391X

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Hometown Pasadena by Joseph C. Dunn,Sandy Gillis,Jill Alison Ganon Pdf

Hometown Pasadena is a new breed of city guide, an in-depth, personality-rich, four-color book written by locals for locals. The five co-authors Colleen Dunn Bates, Jill Ganon, Sandy Gillis, Mel Malmberg and Mary Jane Horton are all longtime San Gabriel Valley residents, and the foreword authors are Larry Mantle (from NPR's KPCC) and Larry Wilson (editor of the Pasadena Star-News). The book is rich in history, arts, culture, restaurants, gardens, architecture, children's activities, sports and much more, and it is filled with interviews with people who make a difference in the community. It is written and designed with wit, style and intelligence. Hometown Pasadena became an immediate success, going into its fourth printing in less than one year. 256 pages, four-color throughout, flexibound binding with flaps, extensive photography and color maps

Author : Roberta H. Martínez
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738569550

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Latinos in Pasadena by Roberta H. Martínez Pdf

Histories of Pasadena are rich in details about important citizens, time-honored traditions, and storied enclaves such as Millionaires Row and Lamanda Park. But the legacies of Mexican Americans and other Latino men and women who often worked for Pasadena's rich and famous have been sparsely preserved through the generations--even though these citizens often made remarkable community contributions and lived in close proximity to their employers. A fuller story of the Pasadena area can be provided from these vintage images and the accompanying information culled from anecdotes, master's theses, newspaper articles, formal and informal oral histories, and the Ethnic History Research Project compiled for the City of Pasadena in 1995. Among the stories told is that of Antonio F. Coronel, a one-time Mexican Army officer who served as California state treasurer from 1866 to 1870 and whose image graced the 1904 Tournament of Roses program.

Author : Patrick Conyers,Cedar Phillips
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738547786

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Pasadena by Patrick Conyers,Cedar Phillips Pdf

Few cities boast a business history as rich and varied as Pasadenas. In the early agricultural days, a brandy distillery and citrus and olive groves helped propel the economy, while the 20th century saw Pasadena emerge as a thriving resort and health town. Together the communitys diverse businesses have played a substantial role in determining the fortunes of the Crown City. In this volume, evocative images recall an extensive range of establishments, from large resort hotels to corner soda fountains, law offices to dry cleaners, restaurants to science labs, local industries to national powerhouses. Seldom-seen photographs from both the Pasadena Museum of Historys archives and private collections trace a business legacy unique to Pasadena, one that still thrives on generations-old family businesses and has also embraced corporate headquarters and regional franchises.

Author : Jill Alison Ganon,Sandy Gillis
Publisher : Prospect Park Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780975393932

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At Home Pasadena by Jill Alison Ganon,Sandy Gillis Pdf

A richly photographed book showcasing the most beautiful, creative, and/or interesting homes and gardens in a city famous for them.

Author : Rick Thomas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738559199

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South Pasadena's Raymond Hotel by Rick Thomas Pdf

Built in lavish Victorian style in 1886 atop Bacon Hill, the Raymond Hotel was the most regal feature on the skyline in the San Gabriel River Valleya sundown silhouette of the wealth and prominence that had coalesced in the Pasadena area. It became the base of activities for Eastern tycoons families enjoying the balmy Southern California climate, even fostering the development of the winter mansions on Orange Grove Avenue. After the original 200-room hotel with 80 chimneys burned down on Easter Sunday in 1895, the second 300-room Raymond Hotel opened in 1901. The pioneering orange groves on the sprawling grounds gave way to a golf course. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Chaplin are just two examples of the early-20th-century celebrities who stayed there. This visually stunning collection of images is a mere sample of the vintage professional photography that exists of South Pasadenas iconic landmark.

Author : Cedar Imboden Phillips
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738558370

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Early Pasadena by Cedar Imboden Phillips Pdf

The name Pasadena evokes images of a sunny paradise filled with the wafting scent of orange blossoms and roses. The world looks to Pasadena every January 1, when the world-famous Tournament of Roses carries on a century-long tradition and the Rose Bowl game reigns as college football's "granddaddy of them all." Many of the city's other cultural and architectural icons also trace their roots to Pasadena's early days. From citrus groves to resort hotels, a bicycle highway and a commuter blimp, presidential visits, and summer snowstorms, the rich and varied history of early Pasadena can be seen in this volume's many unique photographs. Many of these images, taken from the archives at the Pasadena Museum of History, have never before been published. They reflect the colorful origins of a city that remains to this day a popular tourist destination, California cultural center, and a beloved home to thousands.

Author : Sherri L. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101996270

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Pasadena by Sherri L. Smith Pdf

"Beautiful clothes, bad habits, ugly secrets: Sherri L. Smith probes the vulnerable underbellies of a lot of toothy sharks in this page-turning California noir."—E. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars Bad things happen everywhere. Even in the land of sun and roses. When Jude's best friend is found dead in a swimming pool, her family calls it an accident. Her friends call it suicide. But Jude calls it what it is: murder. And someone has to pay. Now everyone is a suspect—family and friends alike. And Jude is digging up the past like bones from a shallow grave. Anything to get closer to the truth. But that's the thing about secrets. Once they start turning up, nothing is sacred. And Jude's got a few skeletons of her own. In a homage to the great noir stories of Los Angeles, award-winning author Sherri L. Smith's Pasadena is a tale of love, damage and salvation set against the backdrop of California's City of Roses.

Author : Ann Scheid
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738530247

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Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture by Ann Scheid Pdf

At sunset, the San Gabriel Mountains form a rosy sculptural backdrop for Pasadena, a city of stately street trees and lush gardens. Attracted by a paradisiacal climate, health seekers and wealthy Easterners flocked to its resort hotels--the Green, the Maryland, the Huntington, the Painter, the Raymond--and built grand residences along Orange Grove and Grand Avenues. Scores of commercial and industrial buildings rose downtown, punctuated by public works, civic buildings, schools, and churches that doubled as works of art, like the Colorado Street Bridge, the Christian Science Church, and the California Mediterranean-style city hall. Preservation efforts have succeeded in putting Old Pasadena and the Pasadena Civic Center on the National Register of Historic Places, and continued restoration has made the city's unique architectural treasures a major attraction in Southern California.

Author : Rick Thomas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738547484

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South Pasadena by Rick Thomas Pdf

South Pasadena is a small city among giants, sandwiched between the great metropolis of Los Angeles and its nationally famous namesake neighbor, Pasadena. Described as a modernday Mayberry and a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, South Pasadena thoroughly represents the very idea of "Main Street America." The city's 40year fight against the I710 Freeway extension is legendary in suburban efforts to maintain cultural identity. "South Pas," as residents know it, was named five times on the National Historic Register's top10 list of "Most Endangered Places." The city's resistance to outside forces threatening to erode the rich heritage captured in these evocative images has made this "little guy" municipality a giant in the historicpreservation battle.

Author : Charles Frederick Holder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Los Angeles County (Calif.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2FYH

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All about Pasadena and Its Vicinity by Charles Frederick Holder Pdf

Author : Hiram Alvin Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Botany
ISBN : WISC:89082462425

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History of Pasadena by Hiram Alvin Reid Pdf

Author : John L. Church
Publisher : Conover-Patterson Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : California, Southern
ISBN : 0965307123

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Pasadena Cowboy by John L. Church Pdf

Author : Patricia O'Sullivan
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938849107

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Literary Pasadena by Patricia O'Sullivan Pdf

The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts & Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven (Blame), Victoria Patterson (This Vacant Paradise), Jervey Tervalon (Understand This), Naomi Hirahara (Snakeskin Shamisen), Lian Dolan (Helen of Pasadena), Ron Koertge (The Arizona Kid), Dianne Emley (the Nan Vining mysteries), and Jim Krusoe (Parsifal). Produced as a companion to LitFest Pasadena (May 2013), Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition is the first in an annual series that will move on to include editions in poetry, essays, humor, and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556035565209

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Gold Line Phase II, Pasadena to Montclair, Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lian Dolan
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984410248

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Helen of Pasadena by Lian Dolan Pdf

This laugh-out-loud funny novel about a mom reinventing herself was written by Lian Dolan, who is a Satellite Sister, writes the nationally popular blog the Chaos Chronicles, and produces the hot Chaos Chronicles podcast. She's a sharp and funny speaker who is much in demand.