South Pasadena is a small city among giants, sandwiched between the great metropolis of Los Angeles and its nationally famous namesake neighbor, Pasadena. Described as a modernday Mayberry and a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, South Pasadena thoroughly represents the very idea of “Main Street America.” The city’s 40year fight against the I710 Freeway extension is legendary in suburban efforts to maintain cultural identity. “South Pas,” as residents know it, was named five times on the National Historic Register’s top10 list of “Most Endangered Places.” The city’s resistance to outside forces threatening to erode the rich heritage captured in these evocative images has made this “little guy” municipality a giant in the historicpreservation battle.

South Pasadena (CA) (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

THOMAS, RICK

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Edwin Cawston courted the early-20th-century public’s fascination with exotic foreign creatures when he began raising ostriches, for more than the use of their feathers in the clothing industry. When Cawston brought the enormous, flightless, African birds onto prime real estate in the Arroyo Seco of South Pasadena, Los Angeles County, more than a few observers thought that the looniest bird might be him. But Cawston was determined to showcase struthio camelus, the biggest bird in the world at 8 vertical feet and 350 pounds. The Cawston Ostrich Farm soon became one of the most popular Southern California attractions, drawing millions to watch people ride the birds bareback at a cruising speed of 35 miles per hour. Cawston supplied ostrich plumes for budget-minded consumers as well as fancy feathers for Vaudeville dancers, movie actresses, and even European queens, becoming a great promoter and showman of his time.

South Pasadena's Ostrich Farm (CA) (Images of America)

The Arroyo Seco, Spanish for “dry wash,” drains the southwestern San Gabriel Mountains and flows through Pasadena to its confluence with the Los Angeles River. The arroyo’s banks became a transportation corridor of trails, railroads, and highways and an enclave for industrialists and artists. For more than a century, its very name evoking more than a stream, it has been a Los Angeles County region overlaying municipalities, eras, and cultures. Eight museums are located in or around the arroyo. Famous attractions included Busch Gardens and Cawston Ostrich Farm, as well as a real-life field of dreams, Jackie Robinson Stadium, and the granddaddy sporting field of them all, the Rose Bowl. The nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s storied principals used this wide dry wash to launch the forerunners of space probes.

The Arroyo Seco (Images of America: California)

Built in lavish Victorian style in 1886 atop Bacon Hill, the Raymond Hotel was the most regal feature on the skyline in the San Gabriel River Valley―a sundown silhouette of the wealth and prominence that had coalesced in the Pasadena area. It became the base of activities for Eastern tycoons’ families enjoying the balmy Southern California climate, even fostering the development of the winter mansions on Orange Grove Avenue. After the original 200-room hotel with 80 chimneys burned down on Easter Sunday in 1895, the second 300-room Raymond Hotel opened in 1901. The pioneering orange groves on the sprawling grounds gave way to a golf course. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Chaplin are just two examples of the early-20th-century celebrities who stayed there. This visually stunning collection of images is a mere sample of the vintage professional photography that exists of South Pasadena’s iconic landmark.

South Pasadena's Raymond Hotel (Images of America: California)

Business & Money

Biography & History

In this eye opening book, readers will discover what can happen when they sow significant seeds of love, time, money, patience, mercy, kindness, prayer and thankfulness.

Significant Seed Perpetual Harvest

Religion & Spirituality

Lifebridge Books

This must-read is for those who are ready to exercise their faith beyond the ordinary. The author shows you from the Word and through personal experience how to tap into God’s invisible supply. Topics include breaking the cycle of doubt, eliminating a defeatist attitude, spiritual visualization, divine declarations―and much more.

Xtreme Faith

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

Xtreme Favor: The Keys to Unlimited Abundance

Rick, Thomas

This book is the result of years of study by the author on the topic of prayer. Based on the Lord?'s Prayer, what he discovered will have a profound impact on your communication and fellowship with your heavenly Father. You will learn: How to come into the presence of God. The power of praying the names of Jehovah. How to find God?'s Kingdom and know His will. The keys to enjoying the Lord?'s provision. How to give and receive forgiveness. The secrets of resisting temptation and finding deliverance. How to celebrate God?'s glory and power. Says the author, I pray your heart will be open to receive and apply The Seven Phases of the Lord?'s Prayer to your daily walk of faith.

Lord, Can You Hear Me

If your marriage is good, it can be richer. If your marriage is in trouble, it can be saved. There is hope!Really? Can God take a good marriage and make it better? Does God have the power to transform a rotten marriage into something magnificent? The answer is a thundering, “YES!”God created the world. God sent his Son to redeem the world. God can make your marriage better.Drive By Marriage contains:• No principles.• No “ten steps to a happier marriage.”• No lecturing.Instead, you will learn:• How to forget the past.• How to “argue.”• How to genuinely love one another. Join Todd Friel of Wretched Radio and TV and Rick Thomas of Competent Counseling as they share a life-changing, marriage saving message that will make the good marriage even better and the cold marriage magnificent.

Drive by Marriage: Joy in the Home, 31 Marriage Lessons...before You Get to Work Every Day (Talk the Walk - Drive by)

Friel, Todd

Burning Bush Communications

Metamorph Adult Coloring Book

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Tru Blu Arts

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