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.
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Author Rick Thomas, who also wrote Images of America: South Pasadena and South Pasadena's Ostrich Farm, lives less than a mile from the Arroyo Seco and is a frequent speaker on regional history. Thomas arranged these wonderful vintage images from his own collection, the archives of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and South Pasadena Public Libraries, and the Pasadena Museum of History.
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I was hoping for more coverage of the Arroy Seco from the first quarter of the last century. Seeing the freeways and stuff is not worth buying the book for.
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On May 8, 1903, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt had lunch at the Raymond Hotel in South Pasadena. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arroyo Seco, Pasadena Museum of History, Courtesy Lauren Thomas, Rose Bowl, Colorado Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Courtesy Pasadena Star-News Collection, White Sox, South Pasadena, Jackie Robinson, Judson Studios, Acme Newspictures, Devil's Gate, Major League, Raymond Hotel, Native American, Thaddeus Lowe, Frank Malina, Arroyo Boulevard, Cawston Ostrich Farm, Penn State, Brookside Park Browse Sample Pages:
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On May 8, 1903, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt had lunch at the Raymond Hotel in South Pasadena. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arroyo Seco, Pasadena Museum of History, Courtesy Lauren Thomas, Rose Bowl, Colorado Street Bridge, Los Angeles, Courtesy Pasadena Star-News Collection, White Sox, South Pasadena, Jackie Robinson, Judson Studios, Acme Newspictures, Devil's Gate, Major League, Raymond Hotel, Native American, Thaddeus Lowe, Frank Malina, Arroyo Boulevard, Cawston Ostrich Farm, Penn State, Brookside Park Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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