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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Early Fandom in Science Fiction
Ray Garcia Capella (1933-2010). Logo Art for Science Fiction League, the earliest science fiction fan organization in Los Angeles. Pen and ink. (Courtesy of the …
Caltech Writers: Part I
One of the greatest overlaps between science and science fiction over the past century has been Caltech. Several great SF writers have spent part or …
It’s Alive!!
Two centuries ago, this year, a single book created a whole new genre, that of what we now call science fiction. The book was Frankenstein, …
