It’s almost fire season in Altadena The 2009 Station Fire Saving Mt. Wilson And speaking of fires… On the heels of the 1934 Brown Mountain fire that scorched 3,000 acres above Altadena, the 1935 La Vina fire, fueled by high… Read More »Altadena’s 1935 La Vina Fire
If you recall back 50 years, when the purple and white building on Lake Ave just south of Amy’s restaurant was The Venetian, you might remember the miniature golf garden that was built on the property in the 1920s. The recreational… Read More »Altadena’s Miniature Golf Course
The AHS cartography collection includes more than 50 maps that chart Altadena’s history, progress and dreams for the future. Map from about 1940 shows where New York Ave. cut across Eaton Canyon.(Current road route is indicated by red line.) Many are… Read More »AHS Map Collection
Before ALTADENA NOW and altadenblog, there was the… COX-O-TYPE Schwart-Seymore Flat Bed Web Newspaper Press The mammoth press was installed at Altadena Press, 750 E. Mariposa (today the building west of liquor store on south side of Mariposa), on Thursday, August… Read More »The Altadena Press
Just a reminder – Monday night’s Altadena Historical Society program (April 27, 2015) at the Altadena Community Center (7:30 p.m.) will feature 1940s Altadena, a story told by Richard Bale who lived here beginning in 1939. Don’t miss this… Read More »Eliot Students 1947