Okay, I get it. I’m not welcome. Don’t come this way, don’t knock on this gate, haunted alley, I’d turn back if I were you. Yet just across the way, at 222 E. Harvard Street in Glendale… …is the Glendale Central Library, where you’re most welcome this Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. when I’ll be […]
We’ve never had a Zen Wednesday before. I missed Zen Monday this week because it was the last day of the month and we do Last Day and–I don’t know, is that Zen? (Not that Zen Monday is ever actually Zen.) Then Tuesday was Theme Day. But we’ve got to have our Zen, so here […]
There may be a part of Pasadena I haven’t scoured for funny signs, but I don’t know where it is. I had to go to Valley Village to find this one (thanks for the tip, Lisa!). Sometimes I want to tell people Los Angeles isn’t as weird as folks say it is. Then I see […]
Our Last Day location is sorely lacking now that our little tree’s been mowed down. I put together all the photos I’ve taken at the Last Day location this month, and there wasn’t a single one I really liked. I see how the tree framed the shot. Now there’s an empty space on the left […]
My weekend’s shaping up to be creative. I hope you get to do what you want to do, too. Have a beautiful holiday! Inspiration for the photo: John Sandel Read the Full Story at Pasadena Daily Photo
A three day weekend. Mmm, what to do, what to do? Old Town will be open, for one thing. That’s not quite true. Much of Old Town will be open, for many things. I do like to be honest on the blog. Here, take a look at the calendar of events. I took this shot […]
I’ve enjoyed showing you some of the traces of Pasadena’s Busch Gardens we discovered on our tour last weekend. This was a special event to benefit Pasadena Heritage, a worthy organization that works to safeguard traces of Pasadena’s history. This fencepost and other traces like it might have remained lost if not for the enthusiastic […]
Why are we gazing across a parking lot at the back of a building? Isn’t this Busch Gardens Traces Week on PDP? Why, yes it is. And this is the biggest trace of Busch Gardens, or actually of the Adolphus and Lilly Busch homestead, still standing in Pasadena. This building, on Arlington Drive near Fair […]
If you ever get a chance to hear Michael Logan speak about Pasadena’s Busch Gardens, go listen and enjoy yourself. He’s got a great collection of photos and post cards, he’s knowledgeable, and best of all he loves his subject. Last Saturday Logan spoke to a crowded auditorium at Westridge School before we headed out […]
You’ve probably heard about Busch Gardens. There’s a Busch Gardens theme park in St. Louis (Grant’s Farm), one in Williamsburg and one in Tampa Bay. There was even at one time a Busch Gardens in Van Nuys, California. But the original Busch Gardens was here in Pasadena. It wasn’t a theme park. There were no […]
