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Author : Ann Scheid
Publisher : HPN Books
ISBN 13 : 189361901X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Historic Pasadena written by Ann Scheid and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Conyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738547787
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Pasadena written by Patrick Conyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809414
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Secret Stairs written by Charles Fleming and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena to walking the Sunset Junction Loop in Silver Lake, to taking the Beachwood Canyon hike through “Hollywoodland” to enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, Secret Stairs takes you on a tour of the staircases all across the City of Angels. The circular walks, rated for duration and difficulty, deliver tales of historic homes and their fascinating inhabitants, bits of unusual local trivia, and stories of the neighborhoods surrounding the stairs. That’s where William Faulkner was living when he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not; that house was designed by Neutra; over there is a Schindler; that’s where Woody Guthrie lived, where Anais Nin died, and where Thelma Todd was murdered . . . Despite the fact that one of these staircases starred in an Oscar-winning short film—Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box, from 1932—these civic treasures have been virtually unknown to most of the city’s residents and visitors. Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.
Author : Roberta H. Martínez
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738569550
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Latinos in Pasadena written by Roberta H. Martínez and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Julianna Delgado
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 073859301X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Pasadena's Bungalow Heaven written by Julianna Delgado and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena's first and largest landmark district, contains the nation's finest collection of middle-class homes of the American Arts and Crafts period. Saved from the wrecking ball in the late 1980s by a grassroots movement that would regenerate the city, it was listed in 2008 on the California Register and in the National Register of Historic Places. The next year, the American Planning Association deemed this heavenly place, with its human-scaled houses, welcoming front porches, and walkable tree-lined streets, as a "Great Neighborhood" in its Great Places in America program. Bungalow Heaven became a model for civic engagement and a lovingly restored reminder of a simpler, healthier way of life.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Pasadena, the Early Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : F.P. Wierzbicki
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732657191
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)
Download or read book California as it is , and as it may be written by F.P. Wierzbicki and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: California as it is , and as it may be by F.P. Wierzbicki
Author : Robert Winter
Publisher : Balcony Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Batchelder Tilemaker written by Robert Winter and published by Balcony Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The importance of Ernest Batchelder as an Arts and Crafts tilemaker cannot be overstated. For his innovation in design, his entrepreneurial spirit, his living his life true to the principles that he espoused, he is a man to be admired by all generations." (Joseph A. Taylor, Tile Heritage Foundation) Ernest Batchelder's ceramic tilemaking enterprise began as a modest backyard venture in rural Pasadena, California but quickly grew to national prominence. In 1908 this enterprising young man left a prestigious teaching position to start his own school and factory, with the goal of establishing a West Coast guild of craftspeople. By 1930 the Batchelder-Wilson Company had showrooms in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, as well as representation in virtually every major city in the United States. New York, Minneapolis, and Vancouver hosted major Batchelder architectural ceramic installations. Batchelder remained the preeminent leader of handmade tiles in the West until the Depression forced the closure of his operations in 1932. His clients ranged from restaurants to churches to high rise office buildings, although perhaps the most striking installations remain the many fireplaces gracing modest American bungalows throughout the country.
Author : Jim Bernard Breckinridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190915676
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book With Stars in Their Eyes written by Jim Bernard Breckinridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aden B. Meinel and wife Marjorie P. Meinel stood at the confluence of several overarching technological developments of the 20th century: postwar aerial surveillance by spy planes and satellites, solar energy, the evolution of telescope design, interdisciplinary optics, and photonics. In 1945 he was a Navy Ensign ordered to find the secret tunnels in Nazi Germany where the V-2 rockets menacing Great Britain and Belgium were being manufactured. After receiving both his B.A. degree and Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley within three years, Aden was invited to join the scientific staff at Yerkes Observatory/University of Chicago. While there he was selected by the National Science Foundation to manage the development of a new national observatory on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and served as its first Director. In the early 1960s he founded the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, which later metamorphosed into the College of Optical Sciences with the doctoral program in interdisciplinary optics. It was here that he also designed the first Multiple Mirror Telescope and with wife Marjorie pioneered the feasibility of solar energy power on a commercial scale. Aden's knowledge and expertise in optics made him invaluable in research on cameras for spy satellites and spy planes overflying the Soviet Union and Southeast Asia. After retirement the Meinels worked for NASA/JPL on the precursor of the James Webb Space Telescope and on the exoplanet program. They also served on the team that corrected spherical aberration in the Hubble Space Telescope"--
Author : Sherri L. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101996250
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Pasadena written by Sherri L. Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.
Author : Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615949642
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (496 download)
Download or read book 50 Years of Pasadena Showcase Design Houses written by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiram Alvin Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Pasadena written by Hiram Alvin Reid and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Scheid
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738530246
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture written by Ann Scheid and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : C. Wellington Koiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Pasadena's Municipal Light and Power Plant written by C. Wellington Koiner and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugo Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Indians of Los Angeles County written by Hugo Reid and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neal Graffy
Publisher : HPN Books
ISBN 13 : 1935377140
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Historic Santa Barbara written by Neal Graffy and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabel Shipley Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967454207
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Between Two Rivers written by Isabel Shipley Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
