You see his name stamped in the sidewalks all over town. He is Clarence Parkman Day, who for more than sixty years served Pasadena and Read More »
Tag: Pasadena
Volunteers are Vital
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” - Helen Keller Our volunteers are vital to Pasadena Museum of History’s success. Read More »
Florence Ceramics
Florence Ward, 1953. Photo by J. Allen Hawkins (Hawkins Collection, JAH10086). Pasadenan Florence Ward (1898-1991) began taking art classes as a way of coping with Read More »
House Moving in 1893 Style
On March 18, 1893 one of the local news items that the Pasadena Daily Evening Star cited was: “H.I. Stuart, of the First National bank, Read More »
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. Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
Eva Fényes 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 Read More »
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 Read More »
