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Lake Avenue: from vacant land to vacant stores? A commercial history of Altadena (altadenablog)
"“Red-lining” by real estate agents discouraged Caucasians from purchasing properties west of Lake Avenue, which became a new racial boundary." OH HAI my old n'hood.
californication  history  personal 
9 weeks ago by epersonae
A Brief History of Palm Trees in Southern California | LA as Subject | SoCal Focus | KCET
lots of great photos.
history  californication 
december 2011 by epersonae
Fantasy Island: 1960 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive
This is the era when my mother was growing up in this area. Neat photo.
californication  photography  history 
october 2011 by epersonae
Reading L.A.: Marc Reisner's 'Cadillac Desert' - latimes.com
"it is fair to say that Los Angeles -- as a city, as a region and as an idea -- haunts "Cadillac Desert" from start to finish"
californication  history  personal  writing  eco 
september 2011 by epersonae
First look: renovated sheriff's station ready for its close-up (altadenablog)
Visited in elementary school, got fingerprinted even IIRC.
californication  personal  history 
september 2011 by epersonae
Community arts center to open at Loma Alta school site (altadenablog)
A lot of my friends from junior high went to that school. Nice to see it getting reused. (My first elementary school is now a charter school. Not sure how I feel about that.)
personal  californication 
august 2011 by epersonae
Long-neglected L.A. River now open to paddlers - CNN
"For seven weekends this month and in September, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is allowing the public to make canoe and kayak trips on a 1.5-mile stretch of the 51-mile waterway."
californication  eco 
august 2011 by epersonae
A Park A Day: The Cobb Estate (or the Haunted Forest), Altadena: LAist
One of my favorite places in my teen years. Wrote a melodramatic fantasy novella inspired by that walk. (And come to think of it, pics of Cobb Estate & the Mt Lowe Railway were in my folder of inspiration photos for my 2009 NaNoWriMo project.)
californication  personal  writing  photography 
august 2011 by epersonae
Birdseye View of San Gabriel, California – 1893
Oh, wow, this one has the Mt Lowe Railway! (I've been hiking in some of the ruins of that.) I see the city where I was born on the legend, but can't find it on the actual map.
gis  history  californication 
april 2011 by epersonae
A perfect 10: The results of the L.A. Times' first Holiday Cookie Bake-Off - latimes.com
sad that Mom's gingerbread didn't make it, but some interesting looking cookies here.
recipes  californication  baking  dessert  sweet  cookies 
december 2010 by epersonae
Sierra Madre Tattler: We Answer the AOL/Sierra Madre Patch Questionnaire So YOU Won't Have To!
mmmmm, crabby hyperlocal sarcasm!
blogosphere  californication 
october 2010 by epersonae
Welcome to Greene & Greene Virtual Archives
hooboy. lots to look at here!
arts  architecture  californication  personal  design 
july 2010 by epersonae
Pasadena Pawn Shop Owners Fixing Up Mixed-Use Greene & Greene : Preservation : Curbed LA
WTF? That's a Green & Greene?
history  architecture  californication 
july 2010 by epersonae
altadenablog: Reporter's notebook: why we're staying
"being part of Poach in the end didn't appeal to us, because of you, our readers" neat!
journalism  californication 
june 2010 by epersonae
Way Up on North Lake | The Best | Hometown Pasadena |
A great ode to the main drag of my hometown. A lot of familiar names from my childhood & adolescence are still there!
californication  personal 
june 2010 by epersonae
Going To Pot: Could Legalizing Marijuana Solve California’s Deficit? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
infographic!
californication  politics 
april 2010 by epersonae
altadenablog: "The Altadena thing"
"OK, fellow residents, we've made The Urban Dictionary, and it's not meant as a compliment!" I had no idea. That's hilarious.
funny  weird  personal  californication 
april 2010 by epersonae
altadenablog: On the street where you live
old street signs for sale. am srsly tempted.
gifts  personal  californication 
march 2010 by epersonae
altadenablog: Historical Society to tour Col. Green's carriage house April 25
wow. makes me wish I were planning on going south. I must've walked by there 1000s of times.
californication  history  personal 
february 2010 by epersonae
Los Angeles May Now Require Rainwater Harvesting : EcoLocalizer
More to the point: "Any builders who are unable to manage 100% of a project’s runoff on site would be required to pay a penalty of $13 a gallon for the water that is not safely redirected." An excellent idea.
eco  californication 
february 2010 by epersonae
Ezra Klein - The folly of term limits
"when you get Arnold Schwarzenegger in a room with the leadership of the Senate and Assembly, Schwarzenegger has the most budget and legislative experience in the room. A guy who was starring in Terminator films as recently as 2003 is now the most seasoned elected official during one of the worst crises California has ever had." boggling.
politics  californication 
january 2010 by epersonae
Santa Monica to experiment with parking psychology -- latimes.com
"Consultants find the city doesn't need more spaces, it needs to change how they are used. New pricing model aims to promote walking, biking or busing, freeing up prime spaces for short-term shoppers." nice example of something I blogged about earlier. (interesting Pasadena tie-in, too. I think that happened after I left.)
local  olympia  californication  eco  bike-vs-car  urbanstudies 
october 2009 by epersonae
Will California become America's first failed state? | World news | The Observer
An interesting piece (apparently CA education fell off the cliff right after I graduated), but doesn't answer the question: "So where did it all wrong?" [typo in the article!] Looking at Prop 13 & Reagan's governorship seems like a good place to start. (CA's slow fall from grace bookended by two actor-politicians? Curious.)
californication  history  politics  finance  urbanstudies 
october 2009 by epersonae
Who do you blame when you lose $50 billion? - How the World Works - Salon.com
this is mom's retirement fund. she's just a couple of years away from retirement. I'm incredibly nervous.
personal  finance  californication 
july 2009 by epersonae
Altadena's Christmas Tree Lane
if you are in So Cal, go tonight! :) (also, this is my new portfolio piece, and a favor for Elizabeth. lots of fun!)
personal  californication  wordpress  webdev 
december 2008 by epersonae
FurdLog » Fighting Gangs Via IP?
"U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien said if his plan is successful, the government would take over ownership of the trademark, and anyone caught wearing a Mongols patch could have it seized by law enforcement on the spot." weird! (also: "San Gabriel Valley-based" I had no idea.)
californication  politics  weird  society 
october 2008 by epersonae
Julia Child: The OSS Years - WSJ.com
"weaned from the golden age of canned, frozen and other processed food, the world of Pasadena home cooking" ouch. anyway, this has already been all over the internets, I just had to note the home connection. (if not for the class differences, she could've been in high school with my grandparents.)
californication  history 
september 2008 by epersonae
altadenablog
omg there's an altadena blog? via one of dylan's twitter friends, kinda sorta. (Elizabeth, r u reading this?)
personal  blogosphere  californication 
june 2008 by epersonae
Another run at biking in L.A. - Los Angeles Times
(I had no idea about that bike ride mentioned in the 1st para. My high school is at that exact location.)
bicycling  californication 
june 2008 by epersonae
Cambria / Hearst Castle (05-2008)
pics from K. looks much like the set of Citizen Kane, but with tourists. :)
californication  photography  personal  history 
may 2008 by epersonae
YouTube - Crimanimalz -The Freeway Ride I
"If You Rode A Bicycle You'd Be Home By Now" -- biking on the freeway in LA...and passing cars. wow. some serious wtf.
bicycling  californication 
may 2008 by epersonae
Disneyland Optimized
OMG. There's actually a software program to help figure out optimum sequence of rides at Disneyland. I'm moderately embarrassed to mention that I'm kinda excited about that. (for Elizabeth, mostly. someday we'll go together again.)
weird  californication  misctech 
january 2008 by epersonae
dervala.net » Blog Archive » Anaheim, California
beautifully written, also sad & horrifying and making me happy I fled Calif.
californication 
december 2007 by epersonae
ihateyoumetrorail.com
cracking me up. the very first Metro Rail line (back when it was still the Rapid Transit District) went in my senior year of high school (91-92). I don't know when "Johnny" moved from NYC, but this former native is amazed that they have rail at all.
californication  eco 
december 2007 by epersonae
'The Pleasures of the Damned' by Charles Bukowski - Los Angeles Times
"So why, then -- in L.A., anyway -- does he remain a sacred cow?" smackdown on Bukowski. Ra & Franz both loved his stuff, but I never really cared for it or for that whole drunk surly guy poet thing.
writing  californication 
november 2007 by epersonae
BLDGBLOG: Greater Los Angeles
"I mean that Los Angeles is the confrontation with the void. It is the void." beautiful and lyrical, but what he captures is the thing that always gave me the heebie-jeebies about LA, even when I was a kid. So much am I not ever moving back.
californication  personal  urbanstudies 
october 2007 by epersonae
Curves on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Great pic of the Getty Center by Elizabeth -- who got sent by her work, lucky girl!
photography  personal  californication  arts 
october 2007 by epersonae
Pasadena's Rialto Theater closes doors after 81 years.
K connects it to lots of other landmarks of our youth that are now gone; I just remember a couple of Rocky Horror trips. alas.
californication  personal  history  arts 
september 2007 by epersonae
Poets.org - In California During the Gulf War
"the yards and hillsides exhausted by five years of drought" -- it leaves me with wordless angst.
personal  writing  californication 
august 2007 by epersonae
Treehouses!
OMG. via: mathowie, and I agree with him: next road trip to Cali, I'm staying there! (not that I know when that is, but still.)
travel  personal  californication  weird  eco 
august 2007 by epersonae
Alumni - Pasadena City College
"Verne Winchell, Established Winchell's Doughnuts - 1934" No kidding. Also: mmmm, donut....
weird  californication  personal  history 
july 2007 by epersonae
IMG_4521.JPG on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
omg it's frostilicus.
funny  weird  californication 
july 2007 by epersonae
Neatorama » Blog Archive » 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World.
very cool. (note also how many of these are in California!)
photography  science  weird  californication 
march 2007 by epersonae
swrve store Storefront
cool biking knickers made in So. Cal. I emailed them about sizes....
bicycling  clothes  to-buy  californication 
february 2007 by epersonae
Lighted Trees #5 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
picture by Elizabeth taken around the corner from the house where I grew up. dig the sparkle.
photography  personal  californication 
january 2007 by epersonae
Pasadena Star-News - Rose Parade fixture to be absent in '07
"On Monday, for the first time in nearly 30 years, KTLA's Stephanie Edwards will be sleeping in" -- the end of something that meant a lot to me when I was a kid.
californication  personal  history 
january 2007 by epersonae
Letterpress - Art - Report - New York Times
"the six weekly letterpress classes at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Calif., [ed: location of Mom's 60th bday party] are among its most popular" -- goes with interest in knitting, jewelry making, etc., etc.
crafty  writing  arts  californication 
december 2006 by epersonae
Art Becomes Life
photo from Elizabeth of TV's Stately Wayne Manor, post-fire. plus comment with my reminiscing.
photography  californication  personal 
november 2006 by epersonae
Box of Light Bulbs on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Elizabeth has some fun pictures of putting up the lights on Christmas Tree Lane, an Altadena landmark less than a block from the house.
californication  photography  personal 
november 2006 by epersonae
Living Room From Side Room on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Elizabeth took a bunch of photos of the house after the TV people had set up their stuff. Surprising (to me, anyway) how much of the incidental decor is ours.
personal  californication  photography  weird 
november 2006 by epersonae
Vanished (Fox) - Reviews from Metacritic
the house I grew up in is going to be a set in an upcoming episode. (Elizabeth thinks Friday after Thanksgiving.)
personal  californication  to-watch 
november 2006 by epersonae
To Move Mountains, Fix Markets — An Economist's Agenda for Sustainable NYC
"as Pasadena, CA, has done to revitalize its Old Pasadena shopping district" -- huh? no kidding. also, good ideas here.
californication  eco  society 
october 2006 by epersonae
Salzburg alley :: Austria, September 2006 (kottke.org)
this photo pulled me back abruptly to the age of 13 and my trip with the pasadena youth symphony orchestra. a very visceral thing.
personal  photography  travel  californication 
september 2006 by epersonae
The Olbermann factor | Salon News
y'know, I remember when he was just the local sports guy. (Elizabeth, help me out here: channel 2 or 4?)
politics  californication 
september 2006 by epersonae
DreamHost Blog » Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster..
"My last hosting company would basically lie thru their teeth, and I appreciate that you don’t." One of the friendlier comments. Me? I lost sites for the better part of an afternoon, which unfortunately was a big day for the Plan B crew, but compared t
personal  weird  californication  webdev 
august 2006 by epersonae
Pasadena selects EarthLink
wifi in my old (sortof) hometown. 23 square miles...what does that look like on a map?
wifi  californication 
august 2006 by epersonae
Field Hockney
Hockney is the embodiment of a certain spectrum of LA, IMHO.
arts  californication 
july 2006 by epersonae
Christmas Tree Lane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"the oldest large-scale outdoor Christmas display in the world" -- no kidding! this is two doors down from the house where I grew up. via Elizabeth.
personal  californication  history 
june 2006 by epersonae
Two Good Things Today
Elizabeth's photos get into the library newsletter. Go flickr!
photography  californication  personal  webdev 
may 2006 by epersonae
One hundred years ago, this minute
"I'm a devout optimist. But I also believe in geology."
science  californication  history 
april 2006 by epersonae
Altadena Library - a photoset on Flickr
they renovated recently. I spent many many many many hours of my youth here, including on my first job.
personal  californication  photography 
april 2006 by epersonae
Inhabitat on the LA River
beautiful and sad
photography  californication  urbanstudies 
april 2006 by epersonae

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