“Exploring Pasadena’s Past” exhibit, Holly and Pieroni Street, courtesy Hunt Design A recently unveiled outdoor exhibit at 100 W Walnut provides a new way to Read More »
Category: Exhibitions
Celebrating Women’s History Month Through Books
Looking for your next book to read? Check out these recommendations from members of the Museum's Volunteer Book Club.
“Who do you think you are, Barney Oldfield?”
On the afternoon of Washington’s birthday holiday, Monday, February 22, 1909, the oiled road of Santa Rosa Avenue was abuzz with the cheers, whispers, and Read More »
Ernest Batchelder’s European Sketches
E.A. Batchelder, sketch of unidentified European city street. Image courtesy of Archives, Pasadena Museum of History (BFP.2.92) Ernest Batchelder is renowned for the distinctive softly-hued Read More »
Early Pasadena: An Astonishing Garden of Flowers
A hedge of Cherokee Roses on Arlington Drive was a notable feature of the gardens in front of the Durand home. Early Pasadena was often Read More »
Leaving the Past Behind & Starting Anew in Pasadena
Eva Scott Muse, circa 1884, photo by Julius Ludovici’s Photographic and Crayon Studios, Newport, Rhode Island. (FCP.38.1.5b) “Dr. Adalbert Fenyes, wife, and daughter of New Read More »
Outgrowing the Cafeteria: LASFS
Over the years, the meetings of the now-independent Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society got bigger. As some of the younger fans went on to their Read More »
Caltech Writers: Part II
There have been a number of science fiction and fantasy writers with ties to Caltech, but from the 1960s on, three have stood out, in Read More »
Clifton’s Cafeteria: For the Hungry and the Creative
Forrest Ackerman and Ray Bradbury at a reunion of the early members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society at Clifton’s Cafeteria, 1999(Image courtesy of Read More »
Science Fiction after Frankenstein
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, was inspired by the balloon technology developed by Thaddeus Lowe. So, where was the science fiction of the nineteenth Read More »
