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A Tale of Two Trees
Pasadena has long been noted for its beautiful tree-lined streets, but the original landscape was a largely treeless plain, with a few native live oaks. …
Community Histories: The Black History Collection
Pasadena Museum of History’s Black History Collection is comprised of photographs, letters, family records, property deeds, and other materials revealing the history of the African …
Painting California: “…a very valuable thing…”
“It seems to me it would be a very valuable thing if you could carry out your plan to make accurate water-color studies of the …
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
SUB-FREEZING WEATHER COMES IN WITH SNOW screamed the headline in the Pasadena Star News on January 11, 1949. Traffic snarled, kids whooped for joy, and …
Eva Fenyes and Boadway Brothers Department Store
It was an enormous pit, a huge gaping excavation that threatened to undermine Cabrillo Place. The bungalows and shops teetered on the edge of a …
Christmas Tree Lane: Celebrating a Century of Holiday Brilliance
One hundred years ago this month, the magnificent Deodar trees on Altadena’s Santa Rosa Avenue were first entwined with multi-colored lights and lit on December …
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 4 of 4): The Egyptian becomes the Uptown Theater
When Warner’s Egyptian Theater closed its doors in 1935, Henry Warner, one time owner and then manager of the theater, was out of a job. …
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 3 of 4): Warner’s Egyptian Theater
Warner’s Egyptian Theater opened in Pasadena, California on May 6, 1925 as a combination vaudeville, legitimate theater, and movie house. It offered the latest feature …
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 2 of 4): The Mission Theater
Clune’s Broadway Theater, built by William (Billy) Clune on Eva Fenyes’ property at 528 South Broadway in Los Angeles, opened in October 1910. Just months …
![The American proposes (Pasadena, California) [actors: Carol Dempster & Richard Barthelmess], November 1918. Colored pencil on paper, 6.5 x 5 in. (Fenyes Collection, ESF.012.3122)](https://pasadenahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Blog_Movies1_featured-300x200.jpg)
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 1 of 4): Los Angeles
Eva Fenyes came to Pasadena in 1896, attracted by the temperate climate, the beautiful landscape, and the quality of light which is so unique to …
