This photo is from our archives. The workers are posing with horse-drawn road grading equipment. The street sign says Piedmont and Glen Avenue. Piedmont was renamed Foothill, and finally Altadena Drive. The citrus orchard was being graded for the Orange… Read More »Altadena’s Building Boom
Built in 1920 by the Bent Bros Company, the Arroyo Seco’s Devil’s Gate Dam, was the first flood control dam in L. A. County. Its construction followed the devastating 1914 flood that sent dozens of homes down the arroyo. The dam under construction … Read More »Altadena’s Devil’s Gate Dam
NAOMI HIRAHARA SPEAKS ON JAPANESE-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE APRIL 25, 2016 AT ALTADENA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Program at Altadena Community Center is Free and Open to Public 730 E. Altadena Drive, Altadena CA 91001 The star of author Naomi Hirahara’s series of award-winning… Read More »Author Naomi Hirahara Speaks at AHS
As this brochure from the AHS collection indicates, in the 1920s development real estate agency Rigali & Vaselish purchased land from the Allen family who owned Sphinx Ranch, and paid $1800 and acre. “A Sales Achievement!” The sales brochures aimed… Read More »Altadena Woodlands: The Subdivision Beautiful
It’s Altadena Historical Society membership drive time again. JOIN ONLINE We thank you for your past support and urge you to join AHS or renew your 2016 membership now. AHS is a federally recognized not-for-profit organization and your membership and donations… Read More »AHS 2016 Membership Drive