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. . .Pasadena. During my youth in Southern California I used to camp, hike, and go to the snow in the Angeles National Forrest in the mountains high above Pasadena California. I have many happy memories of those excursions with friends. Coming down and heading back home after camping, tobogganing, or a day hike to the falls into Devils Canyon we would all pile into the Salt Shaker in Pasadena, an Armet & Davis designed "Googie" style coffee shop that screamed mid century modern. Now, my mom always said Pasadena was more town & country "old money," a more established and well off area than the mixture of tract homes and orange groves that made up most of Orange County where we lived, just southwest of LA. Pasadena was East of LA, inland, near the base of the mountains we often couldn't see for the smog. Thank goodness that's a thing of the past.
When I came across this Pasadena Place NE street sign in the U District here in Seattle, I thought about that long ago place and time, of past Rose Parades down Colorado Boulevard, long necked palm trees craning over buildings to view the nearby mountain peaks, field trips to the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. But what mostly came to mind was the present amazing group of Pasadena area bloggers whose sites I love to visit and the camaraderie they have built in cyberspace and beyond. This is a special shout out to Petrea of Pasadena Daily Photo, Laurie of Glimpses of South Pasadena, and Ben of The Sky is Big in Pasadena, and all their regular commenters and fellow area bloggers that make reading and visiting those sites so enjoyable. Beautiful photography, stellar writing, cute dogs and kids, and always good humor, great heart and social conscience, eyes for important detail, and a knack for highlighting insanely interesting stories about the community, current events, many, many talented residents, the architectural heritage, the schools, colleges, places of worship and businesses, the history and the present tense, and that gorgeous city hall that I never tire of seeing portrayed in a zillion ways. And you'll never find a run on sentence like the one you just read. They are articulate, passionate writers. I hope you will treat yourself to a visit to each of these blogs (listed in my sidebar), and those of their area friends. Something very special awaits.
When I came across this Pasadena Place NE street sign in the U District here in Seattle, I thought about that long ago place and time, of past Rose Parades down Colorado Boulevard, long necked palm trees craning over buildings to view the nearby mountain peaks, field trips to the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. But what mostly came to mind was the present amazing group of Pasadena area bloggers whose sites I love to visit and the camaraderie they have built in cyberspace and beyond. This is a special shout out to Petrea of Pasadena Daily Photo, Laurie of Glimpses of South Pasadena, and Ben of The Sky is Big in Pasadena, and all their regular commenters and fellow area bloggers that make reading and visiting those sites so enjoyable. Beautiful photography, stellar writing, cute dogs and kids, and always good humor, great heart and social conscience, eyes for important detail, and a knack for highlighting insanely interesting stories about the community, current events, many, many talented residents, the architectural heritage, the schools, colleges, places of worship and businesses, the history and the present tense, and that gorgeous city hall that I never tire of seeing portrayed in a zillion ways. And you'll never find a run on sentence like the one you just read. They are articulate, passionate writers. I hope you will treat yourself to a visit to each of these blogs (listed in my sidebar), and those of their area friends. Something very special awaits.
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