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Winter 2015
Volume TwenTy nine, number Four / winTer 2015
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CHrisTmas ornamenTs
Then and Now
10
TournamenT oF roses
2015 Equestfest
12
proHibiTion
America on a Toot
16
2016 rose Queen
Erika Karen Winter
Crowned 98th Rose Queen
18
doo daH parade
Celebrating 38 Years
20
pasadena sympHony and pops
Love Letter Penned to Music
38
THe arT oF CaliFornia FaienCe
Pasadena Museum of
California Art
24
Holiday Coping
Keep Your Well-Being in
Check
40
air ForCe one
The Ultimate Aircraft
26
y.C. Hong: adVoCaTing
CHinese inClusion
The Huntington Library Art
Collection
44
CelebraTe new year’s eVe
Under the Wings of
Air Force One
28
THe Holidays
Unique California Experiences
32
old Town pasadena
History Preserved and Restored
36
goT nog?
The Story of Eggnog
46
THe sCHool For wiVes
Parson’s Nose Theater
47
supporTing musiC eduCaTion
Pasadena Showcase House
48
gingerbread
Houses for Nibbling At
50
CelebraTing romanCe in
THe animal Kingdom
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical
Gardens
52
Queen anne CoTTage
Holiday Tour
Los Angeles County
Arboretum & Botanic Garden
56
THis monTH in HisTory
57
winTer eVenTs guide
64
proFessional serViCes direCTory
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adVerTisers direCTory
Christmas
Ornaments
Then and Now
D
B y J u l i e S ch n i e d e r s
D
id you know that Christmas
trees once were decorated
with gingerbread or marzipan cookies in the shape of stars, bells
and angels? Other types of food such
as nuts and fruit adorned Christmas
trees long before mass-produced
ornaments. Apples were the first
known decorations on Evergreen
trees used in Paradise plays during
medieval times in Germany. Christmas trees first appeared inside German homes in the 1700s. Families
decorated the trees with nuts, berries, fruit, and paper streamers, nicknamed “angels” hair.
The first Christmas trees were
brought to America by German
mercenaries, or Hessians, who were
fighting in the Revolutionary War.
Decorated Christmas trees did not
become widely popular until the
1840s when immigrants from Germany and England brought ornaments to America. As the idea of
decorated Christmas trees caught
on, Americans would string long
strands of cranberries or popcorn to
circle their trees. Small gifts began to
be used to decorate the tree, sometimes containing intricately woven
baskets that hung on the tree using
a piece of yarn or thread. English
immigrants brought over creative ornaments of lace and paper to make a
tree sparkle.
Trees had been decorated with
creativity and loving efforts by families up until German entrepreneurs
began mass-producing glass ornaments in the mid-1800s. Lauscha,
Germany, a region long-known for
its glass-making, was where businesses sprang up making molded glass ornaments, initially in the
shapes of stars, angels, and bells, just
as the original cookie ornaments.
Soon, glass blowers were creating
molds of animals, saints, and famous
people. Not far from Lauscha, craftsmen of Dresden, Germany, were
making ornaments out of pressed
and embossed paper. German arti-
sans also used pressed tin to create
ornaments with brightly colored
lithograph surfaces. Additionally,
German craftsman made hand-cast
lead ornaments.
In 1880, F.W. Woolworth was the
first mass merchandiser to import
German glass ornaments to America.
By 1890, he was selling $25 million
worth of ornaments at nickel and
dime prices. Meanwhile, German ar-
tisans continued to make high quality ornaments that became more elaborate over time. Many of the fancy
and expensive ornaments of the time
were embellished with silk, wool,
thread, chenille, and tinsel.
Germany faced virtually no
competition in imports of ornaments
until after World War I. Japan began
producing Christmas ornaments
to import to America, as well as
Czechoslovakia. According to Hallmark, by 1935, more than 250 million
Christmas tree ornaments were imported to the United States. Interestingly enough, with the outbreak of
World War II in 1939, Corning Company, produced more than 2,000 ornaments a minute, using a machine
that once produced light bulbs. Max
Eckhardt, who was a German immigrant, seeing the importance of
Christmas ornaments to American
families, established an All-American company known as Shiny Brite.
Eckhardt was Corning’s largest customer of ornaments. Once he purchased the ornaments from Corning,
he had the ornaments lacquered by
machine on the outside and then
decorated by hand, putting his own
stamp on them, thus making them
“Shiny Brite.”
After World War II, F.W. Woolworth still dominated in ornament
sales along with its competing fiveand-dime stores Kresge and Neisner’s. If consumers could not find
what they wanted at a “five and
dime”, the could buy specialty or
commemorative ornaments at large
department stores such as Macy’s,
Gimbals, and Marshal Fields in the
50s and 60s. Hallmark launched the
first line of collectibles, Hallmark
Keepsake ornaments, in 1973. Other
brands of special ornaments for adding just the right touch to any tree
include, Swarovski, Lenox, Wedgewood and Waterford. Crystal ornaments make great wedding gifts or
baby gifts, commemorating events
such as “Baby’s First Christmas” or
“Our First Christmas.” Most ornaments such as these can be found at
Macy’s and other department stores
today.
Christopher Radko is another
fine Christmas ornament line that
can be found at most department
stores. The glass ornaments are produced in Europe by a seasoned team
of craftsmen, many of whom have
been with the company since its inception in 1985. An interesting fact
is that Christopher Radko now has
Shiny Brite ornaments, first created
by Max Eckhardt. Christopher Radko ornaments make any tree shine.
An entertaining ornament some
people include on a tree is a pickle.
A pickle, you say? The pickle ornament delights children of all ages.
Children have fun searching for the
pickle before first opening Christmas
presents. The child who finds the
glass pickle first is said to open an
extra present.
Some great places locally to buy
ornaments include Stats Floral Supply, Barbara Cheatley’s Antiques,
and The Gazebo.
Stats in Pasadena offers Christmas ornaments all year round.
Starting in late October, the store is
transformed into a Christmas wonderland. Stats offers a large selection
of ornaments, ranging from simple
to fancy. The floral supply company
has been selling roughly 1000 different types of ornaments since 1962.
Barbara Cheatley’s Antiques, in
Claremont, transforms into a Christmas tree lane of sorts, beginning in
mid-October, for the past 40 years.
Owner Barbara Cheatley brings in 50
trees to help decorate the store and
showcase the ornaments for sale.
Each tree has a different theme with
matching ornaments.
“We have
themes like Holy Land, Woodland,
Santa Land, the North Pole, the Din-
er, and even a tree for Sewing,” Barbara said. Barbara Cheatley carries
over 1,000 ornaments, some of which
come from Sweden, Denmark, and
Norway.
The Gazebo in San Gabriel offers
a plethora of Christmas ornaments
too. It carries many whimsical ornaments in an array of plush, ceramic
or glass styles. The ornaments are
priced just right, making for the perfect teacher or hostess gifts. The Gazebo offers free wrapping, as well.
Finding the perfect ornament for
your Christmas tree doesn’t require a
trip to faraway places. A plethora of
beautiful ornaments are right in our
own backyard.
H
Equestfest, since 1988, is a festival that gives riders participating in the Rose Parade the opportunity to show off their trick riding,
dancing, drills and roping at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Photos courtesy Tournament of Roses
Tournament of Roses
H
orses have long been a tradition in the Rose Parade
and Tournament of Roses.
In fact, the Valley Hunt Club conceived the very first parade in 1890
to be flower decorated horses and
buggies, showcasing our beautiful winter weather. Recognized as
“America’s New Year Celebration”,
the parade is now made up of 40
plus floats, over 20 marching bands,
and as many equestrian units with
approximately 400 horses.
Since 1988, every year before the
Tournament of Roses Parade, all of
the equestrian groups that are to ride
the parade route through the city of
Pasadena on New Year’s Day are
invited to participate in Equestfest.
Equestfest, this year to be held on
December 29, is a festival presented
by Wells Fargo, where equestrian
groups perform and show off their
exquisite techniques, including trick
riding, dancing, drills, and roping
skills at the Los Angeles Equestrian
Center. After the performances, attendees are able to walk through the
stables, talk to the riders and see the
various breeds of horses up close.
The “Equestrian Festival“ first
took place spontaneously in Pasadena’s Victory Park after the 1988 Rose
Parade. In the past, this two-hour
event was at the Santa Anita Park
racetrack and then the Rose Bowl
2015 Equestfest
Stadium, but ever since 2003, the
Equestfest has taken place at the Los
Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank that has a large roofed Equidome arena that can seat about 3,500
people in the grandstands.
During the performances, many
of the equestrian units showcase
their unique routines that vary from
ones for the actual parade. Audienc-
es will also be able to see the riders
and horses dressed in dazzling costumes and enjoy the vendor court,
great music, food, and drinks at this
year’s Equestfest.
The 19 equestrian groups selected to ride in this year’s 127th
Rose Parade presented by Honda,
themed “Find Your Adventure” are
(listed alphabetically):
• 1st Cavalry Horse Detachment - Fort Hood
• American Endurance Ride
Conference
• Anheuser Busch Budweiser
Clydesdales
• Calizona Appaloosa Horse
Club
• Dakota Thunder Shires
• Long Beach Mounted Police
• L.A. County Sheriff’s Department
• Los Hermanos Bañuelos
• Martinez Family
• Medieval Times Dinner &
Tournament
• National Park Service
• The New Buffalo Soldiers
• The Norco Cowgirls & The
Little Miss Norco Cowgirls Rodeo
Drill Team
• Scripps Miramar Ranch
• Spirit of the West Riders
• U.S. Army Field Artillery
Half Section - Fort Sill
• U.S. Marine Corps Mounted
Color Guard
• Valley Hunt Club
• Wells Fargo
Medieval Times Riders from the 2014 event at the Equestrian Center.
Advance tickets are available
through Sharp Seating Company
(sharpseating.com) for $15 general
admission (children 5 and under are
free) or $40 for VIP Reserved Seating (includes souvenir seat cushion).
Tickets may also be purchased at the
venue beginning at 9:30 a.m. on the
day of the event, pending availability. The Los Angeles Equestrian Center is located at 480 Riverside Drive
in Burbank, California.
There were 19 equestrian groups selected to ride in the 127th Rose Parade.Parade
The 18th Amendment
prohibited the sale, man-
ufacture and transportation of intoxicating liquor.
Prohibition
America on a Toot
B y E l i z a b e th C ava n a u g h
Prohibition created a
whole crazy world,” explained Joe Siracusa. And
he certainly knows a zany caper when
he sees one. In addition to touring
with the witty Spike Jones band, he
served as supervising film editor and
sound effects creator for the likes of
Mr. Magoo, Bugs Bunny, Bullwinkle Moose and many more. Born in
Cleveland, Ohio in 1922, Siracusa vividly remembers his first experience
with Prohibition as a boy.
“My uncle brought into the house
one ten-gallon square can of liquid
and was heating it over the stove to
make some sort of liquor,” he says.
Finding the wayward relative in
the family kitchen, Siracusa’s Sicilian-born father immediately reacted
to his bootlegging by telling his brother to, as Joe Siracusa firmly explains,
“take that, get out of the house, and
never come back again!”
As with the Siracusa family, Prohibition polarized the nation. It often
pitted Bone-Drys (those who adamantly supported it) against Wets
(those who did not), law-abiding citizens against law breakers and benders, city dwellers against rural folks,
long-time citizens against newly-ar-
Here, agents dump confiscated alcohol in
New York City sewers in 1921.
Photo scourtesy of The Library of Congress Collection
rived immigrants, Protestants against
those of the Catholic and Jewish faiths,
and mobsters against each other.
While many residents like Joe Siracusa’s father, respected and obeyed the
law despite their opinion, too many
others, including some politicians
who voted for it, flagrantly ignored it.
Ratified by Congress on January
16, 1919, and taking effect one year
later, the 18th Amendment prohibited
the sale, manufacture and transportation of intoxicating liquors within
the United States. During its 13-year
reign, Prohibition transformed the
United States, heralding a new American subculture and permanently shifting the social and geographical landscape of Los Angeles and the nation
(see page 22 for key events).
The push for (as well as against)
Prohibition had been brewing across
the United States for decades. Steeped
in Puritanical belief and spread by the
tireless efforts of women’s suffrage,
leaders with the intention of stopping
domestic violence, the Temperance
Movement had dug in its heels. The
crusade took aim at the dereliction
and abuse that grew out of the 1800s
saloon culture. The more available
and potent distilled “hard liquor”
such as whiskey, gin and rum had
caused pilfered wages and shattered
families. By 1851, community activism helped Maine become the first
state to ban the sale and consumption
of alcohol.
Throughout this period and
into the early 1900s, German-American beer makers like the father and
son-in-law team of Anheuser-Busch,
through their innovative brewing and
marketing techniques, began reaping
unprecedented financial success. The
profits of these companies, including
Pabst and Schlitz, skyrocketed as their
reach included control of the local saloon.
In this environment, the tenacious
Anti-Saloon League leader Wayne
Wheeler rose to power. Through his
focus, drive and somewhat unscrupulous measures, Wheeler incited the
passage and ratification of the 18th
Amendment. Immediately following
its success, he penned the Volstead
Act, introduced by Congressman Andrew Volstead, to provide even tighter
restrictions on alcohol while enabling
Prohibition’s enforcement.
This period also changed the social dynamic between men and women. A few months after Prohibition
took effect, Congress ratified the 19th
Amendment, granting women the
right to vote. The saloon as a man’s
domain soon gave way to the speakeasy bar that welcomed both sexes.
The Prohibition era also inspired
a colorful new lingo. Speech in the
1920’s contained phrases like, “Those
flappers got zozzled on hooch served
at the drum.” That is, “Those gals got
drunk on liquor served at the speakeasy.” Or, “Their jelly beans want to
see a man about a dog so they can go
on a toot.” The translation is, “Their
boyfriends want to buy whiskey so
they can go on a drinking binge.” Vocabulary of the era overflowed with liquor, drunkenness, gangsters, police,
Women’s Christian Temperance Building on Broadway & Temple Prohibition photo.
Prohibition kicks off a 1920’s-era garter-flask fad so women could conceal
alcohol in style. The Library of Congress
Collection.
women, men, and money (i.e., cabbage, kale, clams. For a listing of more
speakeasy slang and the meaning, see
page 22).
Down at the speakeasy, patrons
gained access through back doors and
hidden passageways. These secret
clubs graced restaurants and hotels
throughout Downtown Los Angeles,
Hollywood and beyond. Their locations included the current site of the
Stella Adler Academy in Hollywood,
as well as the former Rosslyn Hotel
and the Gold Room of the glamorous
Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown L.A. Speakeasies even popped
up in private homes. Famed architect
Paul Williams concealed one in his design of a 1926 Los Feliz mansion.
While speakeasy sites increased,
the commercial vineyards once
stretching across the San Gabriel
Valley and along the banks of the
L.A. River diminished. Only one of
the more than 100 wineries located
throughout Los Angeles survived:
San Antonio Winery. Founded by Santo Cambianica in the Italian district
of Lincoln Heights, the winery precariously opened in 1917. As federal
regulation allowed a small amount
of alcohol to be available for religious
and medicinal purposes, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles granted San
Antonio Winery permission to make
sacramental altar wines. Its founder’s
devotion to the Catholic Church and
surrounding community saved the
family business and its vision. San
Antonio Winery continues to flourish,
aging, storing and bottling its wine in
Downtown Los Angeles and offering
public tours of the process.
Among other Prohibition-Era
changes, the nation came under a
cloud of violent deeds by gangsters
like Al Capone and the growing death
rate from toxic bootleg alcohol, which
in 1928 poisoned over 1,500 Americans. Rising tax-free profits by bootleggers also caused lost government
revenue. By 1926, estimates revealed
that bootlegging had become a nationwide 3.6 billion dollar business.
At first, the nation did not grasp
the truth about human nature and
the inherent lack of freedom in the
Prohibition law. “Nothing so needs
reforming as other people’s habits,”
Mark Twain once remarked, with his
trademark wit. “It is the prohibition,”
he went on to say, “that makes anything precious.”
As a federal prescription, Prohibition did not heal the country’s overindulgence in alcohol. For the first and
only time in United States history, on
December 5, 1933, Congress ratified a
Constitutional Amendment (the 21st)
that would repeal another Amendment (the 18th). After 13 years of
“craziness,” America’s “Great Experiment” had come to an end. And in its
wake, the nation found a vastly new
social and physical landscape.
A sign
of the times.
Signs like this were
Prohibition to
used on vehicles during
identify agents.
After 13 years, the 21st Amendment was ratified
in 1933.
and
Prohibition was brought to an end
2016 Rose Queen
Erika Karen Winter Crowned 98th Rose Queen
E
communications within the fashion
industry. She is the daughter of Tim
and Kristine Winter.
She joins Rose Princesses Bryce
Marie Bakewell, 17, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy; Natalie Breanne, 17, Alverno High School;
Rachelle Chacal Renee Liu, 17, San
Marino High School; Donaly Elizabeth Marquez, 17, Blair High School;
Regina Marché Pullens, 17, Maranatha High School; and Sarah Sumiko
Shaklan, 17, La Cañada High School.
Tournament of Roses® President Mike Matthiessen crowns
2016 Rose Queen Erika Karen Winter.
Photos courtesy of the Tournament of Roses
E
rika Karen Winter, a 17-yearold senior at Flintridge Preparatory School, has been selected the 98th Rose Queen.
The Pasadena resident is part
of the cheer and dance team at
Flintridge Prep, a member of the
student senate and is also a middle
school commissioner.
In addition, Winter is the presi-
dent of the Hip Hop Club and Craft
Club. Winter serves as a peer counselor and a volunteer instructor for
autistic dance classes and captured
the lead role in her school’s spring
musical. She enjoys singing, acting,
spin-cycling and watching hockey.
Erika would like to study marketing and psychology in the future
and hopes to work in marketing and
Meet the Royal Court:
Rose Princess Bryce Marie
Bakewell, 17, is a senior at Flintridge
Sacred Heart Academy and lives in
Pasadena. Bryce serves as the president of the Black Student Union and
volunteers within a daycare for disabled children. She enjoys yoga, volunteer work and spontaneous trips
with her family. In college, she hopes
to work on a pre-law track, majoring
in United States History and minoring in Spanish. Bakewell would like
to eventually become a criminal justice attorney. Bryce is the daughter
of Danny Jr. and Tana Bakewell; she
has three siblings: Taelor, Danny III
and Devyn.
Rose Princess Donaly Elizabeth Marquez, 17, is a senior at Blair
High School and lives in Pasadena.
Marquez enjoys soccer, writing poems, singing and dancing. She currently works for the Ambassador
Youth Program, is on the prom committee and is active with her church.
In the future, she wants to study
criminal justice or enter into the
medical field. Donaly is the daughter of Ignacio and Sara Marquez; she
has six siblings: Alicia, Silvia, Sara
Marie, Emily, Abraham, and Elijah.
Rose Princess Natalie Breanne
Hernandez-Barber, 17, is a senior
at Alverno High School and lives
in Pasadena. Natalie serves as an
Alverno Ambassador, works with
the Campus Ministry, plays varsity
The Rose Princesses and their queen (From left to right) Sarah Shaklan, Rachelle Liu,
Bryce Bakewell, Rose Queen Erika Winter, Regina Pullens, Natalie Hernandez-Barber
and Donaly Marquez.
volleyball and is the recipient of the
Carol Ladere Memorial Scholarship.
She enjoys cooking, graphic design,
outdoor activities and sports such as
track, basketball ,and karate. Natalie
would like to study broadcasting
and communications in college and
hopes to become a radio or television host. She is the daughter of Jeffrey Barber and Rebecca Hernandez;
Natalie has two siblings: Sydney
and Madison.
Rose Princess Rachelle Chacal
Renee Liu, 17, is a senior at San Marino High School and lives in Arcadia. Rachelle serves as the president
and founder of the LEO (Leadership, Experience, Opportunity) Club
and captain of the both the Speech
and Debate team as well as the Mock
Trial Team. She is the director of the
Holiday Angels musical group and
Kids Play for Kids. Rachelle enjoys
playing the Chinese harp, hiking
and singing. In college, she would
like to study biology and hopes to
become a doctor who works with
Doctors Without Borders, helping
people world-wide. Rachelle is the
daughter of Daniel and Chacal Liu.
Rose Princess Regina Marché
Pullens, 17, is a senior at Maranatha
High School and lives in Altadena.
Pullens founded the Glam Girl Club
and is a teacher’s assistant for the
science department. She has traveled to the Dominican Republic and
Nicaragua on mission trips and has
served as a counselor for vacation
Bible school at the Altadena Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Regina
enjoys reading, writing, and playing both the piano and clarinet. She
would like to study pre-medicine in
college and hopes to become an anesthesiologist. Regina is the daughter of Reginald and Renita Pullens;
she has three siblings: Teneka, Reece
and Reid.
Rose Princess Sarah Sumiko
Shaklan, 17, is a senior at La Cañada High School and lives in Altadena. Shaklan volunteers frequently at
Huntington Memorial Hospital and
The Ronald McDonald House in
Pasadena. She participates in AYSO
Soccer, works on the yearbook and
is a member of the Sierra Madre Interact Club. Sarah enjoys photography, reading, and babysitting. She
hopes to study criminal justice and
pre-law in college. Sarah would like
to become a lawyer who works in
the non-profit sector, helping people and organizations that lack the
finances to hire defense attorneys.
Shaklan is the daughter of Stuart
and Pamela Shaklan; she has two
siblings: Jonathan and Andrew.
The official announcement was made during a
ceremony at the Pasadena Convention Center in
October. The announcement concludes a monthlong process that began
with more than 900 Pasadena-area young women
who participated in the
Royal Court tryouts.
The ceremony was
emceed by KTLA Rose
Parade host and television personality, Stephanie Edwards, who will
conclude her 35-year run
as co-host for the KTLA
Rose Parade broadcast
with the 127th Rose Parade presented by Honda, themed “Find Your Adventure.”
The new Rose Queen and the
Royal Court will make as many
as 100 community and media appearances, culminating with the
127th Rose Parade, presented by
Honda and the 102nd Rose Bowl
Game presented on New Year’s
Day.
The Rose Queen and Royal
Court were selected based upon a
combination of qualities, including public speaking ability, poise,
academic achievement, and community involvement.
“Leading up to America’s
New Year Celebration, Winter
and the six Rose Princesses will
serve as ambassadors for the
Tournament of Roses and the City
of Pasadena,” said Tournament of
Roses President Mike Matthiessen, who presented the crown
to the queen. “Rose Queen Erika
and each member of the Royal
Court have embarked on an exciting adventure, and we are eager
for them to encourage others to
find their adventure throughout
the community.”
Matthiessen presented Winter
with a Mikimoto crown featuring
more than 600 cultured pearls and
six carats of diamonds. Prior to
the public event, all members of
the Royal Court received a pearl
necklace from Mikimoto.
Doo Dah Parade
K
Celebrating
38 Years
The twisted sister of the Rose Parade was named “America’s Best Parade: by Readers
Digest. Photos courtesy of Doo Dah Parade.
K
nown as the twisted sister of the
conventional Rose Parade, the
Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah
Parade began as a grassroots event in
1978 to gain national attention for its
eccentric and, often, irreverent satire.
The parade, which has spawned numerous off-beat replicants across the
country and was named by Readers
Digest as “America’s Best Parade,”
was recently featured in the book 50
Places You Must Visit Before You Die!
The Doo Dah Parade, this year on
November 22, celebrates 38 years of
irreverent playfulness on the streets of
Pasadena. As is tradition on Doo Dah
day, the street swells with a memorable cast of local eccentrics, dissenters,
pundits, lone wolfs, steam punks, and
merrymakers.
Last year, dozens of inventive, if
zany, art cars and floats accompanied
a legion of frolickers past the momn-pop shops along East Pasadena’s
shady tree-lined streets. Additional old and new entries coming back
this year include Easy Acres Chicken
Sitters, combined bands of the 35th
SOUTH PASADENA’S
Dragoon Guards, Boo-Boo Kitty, KidSwap, Auto Focus-Famous Director,
King Louie, A Movable Feast, Human
Pool Balls, Howdy Krishna, Radioactive Man, Charlie and Pearl the Unicorns, Blues Brothers Tribute, Klingon Assault Group, and much, much
more!.
Selected to reign over this year’s
parade as monarch is post-punk
rocker and East Pasadena alternative
clothing shop owner Veronika MeowMeowz . The new Queen wooed over
30 judges by performing a song from
her former band Untoward Children,
full of daring, energetic, uncompromising sound reminiscent of Siouxsie
Sioux. Veronika is also a long-time resident who served as a special education teacher for the Pasadena Unified
School District. She has “always loved
the Doo Dah Parade and feels this is
beyond an honor. Yes, I’m ready for
the crown!”
Dubbed the Doo Dah Parade
Grand Marshal is singer, songwriter,
playwright, theater director, undefeated professional boxer and amateur
champion, and leader of an alt-country/Americana genre-defying band,
Juli Crockett. Don’t forget to add
Doctor of Philosophy in Media and
Communications to her resume. Doo
Dah organizers say “Juli is a fierce and
brilliant artist who embodies the spirit
of our event!”
To recount the fascinating and
confusing history of the Pasadena
Doo Dah Parade since 1978, please
visit pasadenadoodahparade.info/
archives. For more information call
(626) 590-7596 Public Info Line.
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Shop owner Veronika MeowMeowz was
selected to reign over 2015 Doo Dah
parade.
Dozens of inventive, zany, art cars and
floats joined a legion of colorful frolickers down the tree-lined streets of
East Pasadena.
Pasadena Symphony and Pops
Love Letter Penned to Music
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The Ambassador Auditorium provides an elegant concert experience.
J
ust in time for
Valentine’s Day
- probably the
most famous love
letter ever penned
to music. On February 13, 2016, David Lockington will
conduct and Jennifer
Frautschi will perform
Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto at
the Ambassador Auditorium at 2 p.m.
and 8 p.m. Considered one of the most
technically difficult
works for the violin,
Tchaikovsky wrote
this
masterpiece
while on respite
in Clarens, a Swiss resort on the
shores of Lake Geneva. The composer had gone to Switzerland to
recover from a depression brought
on by his disastrous and quick
marriage to Antonia Miliukova. As
he was not a violinist, Tchaikovsky
sought the assistance of his pupil
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cipient Jennifer Frautschi will join
the orchestra on violin for this dazzling performance. An alumnus of
the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestras program and the Colburn
School of the Performing Arts,
Frautschi returns to her roots for
this exclusive Southern California
performance.
In his 14th season as Music Director of the Grand Rapids Symphony, David Lockington, a Grammy Award nominee who marked
his conducting debut at Carnegie
Hall, has created a lasting legacy of
artistic achievements and genuine
community enrichment. At his initiative, the Symphony has reached
out to new and diverse audiences through its annual community
concert “Symphony with Soul,”
now in its 12th season.
It’s date night at the Symphony! The Pasadena Symphony provides a quintessential experience
specially designed for the music
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inner epicurean in us all with the
addition of the lively Sierra Auto
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Grammy winner.
violinist and two-time
Iosif Kotek on the violin solo. So inspired was Tchaikovsky by Kotek,
that he completed the Violin Concerto in less than a month’s time,
while at the same time recuperating from his heart break.
Two-time GRAMMY nominee
and Avery Fisher career grant re-
dena Symphony offers.
A posh setting at Ambassador Auditorium’s
beautiful outdoor plaza,
audiences enjoy uniquely prepared menus for
each concert from Claud
&Co, fine wines by Michero Family Wines,
plus music before the
concert and during intermission. The Ambassador Auditorium is
located at 131 S St. John
Avenue, Pasadena. For
ticket or additional information visit pasadenasymphony-pops.org
or call (626) 793-7172.
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The Lingo and Key Events From the Prohibition-Era
Easy-speak down at the Speakeasy
Slang
Meaning
Bee’s knees
The best
Drum
Speakeasy
Foot juice
Cheap wine
Hinky Suspicious
Hooch
Jag juice
Nibble one
Ossified
Out on the roof
Key Prohibition-Era Events
1919 - The 18th Amendment is ratified
by Congress to prohibit alcohol.
1919 - The Volstead Act defines Prohibition and its means of enforcement.
1920 - Prohibition begins as the 18th
Amendment takes effect.
Liquor
1920 - Prohibition closes Pasadena’s
Hard liquor Golden Park Winery and many others.
Have a drink 1920 - The 19th Amendment is ratified, giving women the right to vote.
Drunk
Drunk
Quilt
1926 - Bootlegged alcohol is estimated
Warming drink as a $3.6 billion business.
Toot
Drinking binge
Under glass
In jail
Zozzled
Drunk
1929 - The Stock Market crashes, resulting in The Great Depression.
1933 - The 21st Amendment is ratified
to end Prohibition.
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Holiday Coping
Keep Your Well-Being in Check
B y M i ch e l l e S u l l i va n
R
eady or not here it comes.
The holiday season springs
upon us each year. It awaits,
wrapped in shiny paper, with a big
bow and a little anticipation tucked
inside. There is a sense of excitement lingering in the air; the chance
to reconnect, celebrate, and cherish
what truly matters. The excitement
is meant to uplift and reawaken.
What happens when the excitement meant to uplift does a swift
The
nose dive and becomes negative?
I wondered just that. Why may
the “happy holidays” become the
“hazardous holidays”? Hazardous, as in, “danger, warning, your
well being is at stake!” Should we
all proceed with caution? I decided
to pick the brain of Sierra Madre
Sync Counseling therapist, Wendy
Edwards, to find out just that.
Edwards specializes in the
area of holiday coping, which he
describes as when one’s holiday
season changes from the expect-
holiday season for some evokes vulnerability and emotion and can turn positive
excitement into dreaded excitement.
ed, positive excitement into the
negative, dreaded excitement. As
in many circumstances, one can
easily and unknowingly bring this
negative, dreaded excitement upon
themselves. For example, young
families are extremely susceptible
to experiencing a need for holiday
coping. Others vulnerable to needing holiday coping are those experiencing a loss and those with challenging family relationships.
Edwards explains there is a
trend for young parents in particular, to overdo, over plan, over
spend, and even over eat. This
leaves them fatigued and full of
dread. They are victims... victims
of the pressure and the false belief
their overdoing will pay off. However, we all know what memories
are really cherished and it’s not,
“the stuff,” thank goodness. It’s the
memories, the experiences. Parents
need to be self-aware and keep their
daily life as close to normal as possible. This includes exercising, eating, and sleeping as near as possible to their daily norm. This avoids
depletion. Parents are able to be at
their best: well rested, healthy, and
having fun. The recipients of this
positive energy are their children
and loved ones.
The holidays for many others
are a difficult time. People may
have a reason to feel sad. Some
have recently experienced the loss
of a loved one. It could be the loss
of a spouse or another relative or
friend. Others may have moved
and lack a support system. Yet
others are recently divorced and
are experiencing their first holiday
without their children or a significant other. They may feel there
is no one left to celebrate with. If
grieving, they may feel being joyous is an insult to those no longer
present. These individuals are susceptible to two extremes: either
pushing through anyway or isolating themselves and thus becoming
even lonelier. Edwards advises for
these individuals to take the pressure off. Accept the holidays will
be different. Advocate for yourself.
Even though it’s difficult, ask for
help. Tell others what you need.
Try to participate in some way, but
not in a way that is more than you
can handle.
Those connected to someone
experiencing a loss should be sensitive. Don’t be pushy and don’t
place big expectations upon them.
Find ways to pursue their participation, to keep them from isolating
themselves without nagging. Ask
them, “What’s important to you?
What would feel good? Do you
want to….or do you prefer for me
to let you be?” Strive to keep them
from feeling lonely and going into
that downward spiral of isolation,
which only deepens their loneliness.
The holiday season can also
evoke a vulnerability and emotion
for those with strife within their
family relationships. People can
even revert to that kid they once
were when amongst family members. Family conflict may be unavoidable, but Edwards reminds
us to anticipate things. Be aware
and make up your mind to not react. Be the bigger person to keep
the family gatherings intact. Greet
the person who is not easy to relate
with even more warmly. Choose
someone within your family to
serve as a buffer... someone who
is sensitive to the relationship and
who you can even provide a secret
signal to if the situation gets to be
too much. When all else fails Edwards states, “When the negative
comments, actions, looks, or energy fly your way, envision yourself
covered in Teflon. Let them fall off.
When the positive ones come your
way, envision Velcro and let them
stick!”
Thanks, Edwards, for the advice! When the positive instances
occur I will remember, “I am Velcro, hear me roar!” As for all that
negative business, “What, I’m sorry? Did you say something? I’ve
got my Teflon suit on.”
For more insights, advice, and
tips in regards to holiday coping,
please visit www.psychologytoday
and search “holiday stress” for an
abundance of useful articles.
T
Y.C. Hong: Advocating
Chinese Inclusion
The Huntington Library Art Collection
T
he exhibit, Y.C. Hong: Advocate
for Chinese-American Inclusion,
on view November 21, 2015
to March 21, 2016, examines Chinese-American immigration in early 20th-century Los Angeles and is
on view in the Library, West Hall.
The name You Chung (“Y.C.”) Hong
(1898–1977) still elicits respect and
pride among longtime residents of
Los Angeles’ Chinatown. As one of
the first Chinese Americans to pass
the California Bar, Y.C. Hong was a
major figure in the Los Angeles Chinese community during the period
of the Chinese Exclusion Act and
beyond. He was one of the founding members of the “new” Chinatown in Los Angeles, a prominent
immigration lawyer, an authority
Christmas portrait of the Hong Family, circa 1960s.
Photos courtesy of Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
You Chung (“Y.C.”) Hong was one of
the first Chinese Americans to pass the
California Bar.
on U.S. immigration laws, and an
active proponent of equal rights for
Chinese Americans, lobbying and
befriending U.S. senators and California governors to fight for Chinese
inclusion. The exhibition Y.C. Hong:
Advocate for Chinese-American Inclusion is drawn from The Huntington’s
You Chung Hong Family Papers, acquired in 2006, this exhibition is the
first opportunity for the public to get
a deeper sense of the life of this extraordinary figure in Chinese-American history through some 75 items,
including historical documents, correspondence, photographs, maps,
and ledgers.
The Chinese Exclusion Act, a
federal law in effect from 1882 to
1943, prohibited the immigration of
Chinese laborers to the United States.
Regarded as one of the leading authorities on Chinese immigration,
Y.C Hong gave testimony in Washington, D. C., on several occasions
at congressional and presidential
commission hearings. “During his
lifetime, he facilitated and worked
on at least 7,000 immigration cases,”
said Li Wei Yang, curator of Western
American History at The Huntington and curator of the exhibition.
“This exhibition will give visitors a
rare and comprehensive view of the
life and career of a legendary lawyer
who advocated relentlessly on behalf of Chinese Americans striving to
achieve the American dream.”
Divided into six sections, the
exhibition will provide visitors with
insight into the early history of the
Chinese experience in California, in
part through photographs of Chinese gold miners and railroad laborers; it will cover Hong’s early years
in San Francisco, where he was
born and educated up though high
school; it then segues into his career
as an immigration attorney, through
examples of a coaching scroll and
village map that some of his clients
had to memorize in order to pass the
questioning of U.S. immigration officials.
Hong’s extensive civic and political engagement, which includes his
tenure as president of the Chinese
American Citizens Alliance, is illustrated by photographs of him with
Ronald Reagan when Reagan was
governor of California, and with
Soong May-ling, the wife of Chiang
Kai-Shek, president of the Republic
of China between 1928 and 1975.
The exhibition also provides an intimate portrait of Hong’s family life,
including a love letter to his wife,
Mabel, and photographs of them
with their sons. The final section
focuses on New Chinatown in Los
Angeles, which Hong, as a founding member, helped build after Old
Chinatown was razed to make way
for Union Station. A poster and photograph of the opening ceremonies
for the colorful and family-friendly
New Chinatown, contrasted with
photographs taken of Old Chinatown with its run-down infrastructure, help bring home the impact of
Hong’s influence.
About the Collection
The You Chung Hong Family
Collection was donated to The Huntington by Hong’s son Roger and
contains items from several distinct
archival collections that were created by Y.C. Hong and his family. It
features a wide selection of materials, including photographs, motion
picture films, manuscripts, correspondence, architectural drawings,
immigration case files, artifacts, and
printed ephemera.
The Los Angeles-based law firm
Paul Hastings, LLC, is the corporate
sponsor of this exhibition. Additional support is provided by the Robert
F. Erburu Exhibition Endowment
Fund.
The Holidays
Unique California Experiences
W
At
L.A. Zoo, a nighttime wonderland aglow with millions of lights is open nightly (exChristmas Eve and Christmas Day) from Friday, November 27, through Sunday, January 3,
2016. Photo by: Jamie Pham
Beautiful weather combined with beachfront ice skating, festive decor and a beach bonfire with s’mores makes
for a classic Southern California experience at the Hotel Del Coronado. Photo by William Morton
By Jim Thompson
W
hile it may not be a traditional event with falling
snow, a roaring fireplace
and hot toddies, the holidays in SoCal are a perfectly wonderful time
of the year. Here are a few uniquely
California things to do with family
and friends if you want a little holiday cheer:
Ice Skating by the Sea
Where else but in Southern California can you find ice skating at
the beach?
Check out “Skating by the Sea”
at the historic Hotel del Coronado in the San Diego area. For the
11th year, from Thanksgiving Day
through January 3, you can enjoy
the ice against a truly magical backdrop of stunning views of the ocean,
the beach, and the hotel’s iconic
Victorian building, adorned with
thousands of white lights as holiday music fills the air. It was here
in 1904 that America witnessed the
first electrically-lit outdoor Christmas tree, setting the stage for a century of holiday enchantment. In addition to the outdoor ice rink, enjoy
the
cept
hot cocoa and libations, a private
fireworks display, performances by
Coronado school children, photos
with Santa and his elves, holiday
shopping, and holiday booths with
games and prizes. Skating tickets
are only $25 with free skate rentals.
Closer to home, you can find
skating at Santa Monica beach or
the extravagant winter wonderland
called CHILL at the Queen Mary in
Long Beach (November 20 – January 10). For CHILL, the Queen
Mary dome - once home to the legendary Spruce Goose - is frozen
over and transformed into a giant
igloo and home to The Ice Kingdom. This 13,000 sq. ft. walk-thru
exhibit features giant ice creations –
some towering over two stories tall
and made using over two million
pounds of ice. There is also ice skating, live music, and holiday carolers. Be sure to bundle up. Temperatures drop to a numbing 9-degrees
inside the Ice Kingdom.
Holiday at the Grove and Farmer’s
Market
From November 18 to December 24, “Celebrate the Season at The
Grove” features a magical snowfall
attraction presented by Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles. The Grove’s
spectacular 100-foot Christmas tree,
twinkling with more than 10,000
ornaments and lights, Santa’s Cottage where you can talk with Father
Christmas himself, enjoy live music
and performances are just some of
the seasonal delights.
Adjacent Farmer’s Market is
also decked out in Yuletide finery
to welcome the season. Activities
include live music, arts & crafts,
variety shows, music concerts,
strolling carolers, special activities
for Chanukah, and even a Holiday
hula show.
Both locations offer lots of specials and unique gifts for your last
minute holiday shopping needs.
Beach’s Parade of 1,000 Lights,
Channel Island’s Harbor Parade of
Lights in Oxnard, Ventura Harbor
Parade of Lights and Winter Wonderland, Marina Del Rey Holiday
Boat Parade, and the Naples Long
Beach Boat Parade.
Check out the harbor city near
you for specific dates and times.
Special Light Displays
Ashore, dazzling light displays
Harbor Lights
There is nothing more uniquely Californian than the annual boat
parades that light up harbors and
canals up and down the Pacific
Coast of Southern California.
The events include the San Diego Bay Parade of Lights, Huntington Harbor Boat Parade, Dana Point
Boat Parade of Lights, Newport
Beach Christmas Boat Parade, Long
Rodeo Drive provides a spectacular display of lights as well as the world’s most famous luxury shopping experience, trolley rides and roaming carolers.
– both public and private – can be
found throughout the holidays,
bringing vibrant life and holiday
cheer at night. A spectacular display of nearly 150,000 lights will
brighten Rodeo Drive this holiday
season during the annual Beverly
Hills Holiday Lighting Ceremony.
Lining the median of Rodeo Drive
between Santa Monica and Wilshire
Boulevards are full size Baccarat
chandeliers, brightly lit birch trees,
iridescent palm trees, and hundreds of red poinsettias.
As in past years, the Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel, will feature more than 50,000
lights, twinkling in tandem with
100,000 red and white lights along
the famed boulevard. In years past,
festivities included lighting of the
holiday lights, a fireworks display
and a confetti “snow” shower. The
lighting ceremony (November 22)
is free to the public.
For the second year, “L.A. Zoo
Lights” is a wild place for the holidays (November 27 – January 3).
While most of the zoo’s residents
are sleeping, guests stroll through
a dazzling winter wonderland of
glowing animals rendered in LED
lights, lasers, 3D projections, and
interactive displays. Other sights
and delights include real reindeer
on view beneath twinkling chandeliers (Reindeer Romp), Santa perched atop a glowing “ice
throne”, and holiday treats and
goodies available for purchase. A
self-guided tour takes 60 to 90 minutes.
Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena (Santa Rosa Avenue, between
Woodbury Avenue and Altadena
Drive) has entertained visitors for
nearly a century by decorating over
100 tall trees with festive holiday
lighting. Started in 1920, Christmas Tree Lane is the oldest largescale outdoor Christmas display
in the world. Against a backdrop
of trees on the “Mile of Christmas
Trees” strung with 10,000 lights, the
lighting ceremony, on December
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The Beverly Hills Holiday Lighting Ceremony
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12, includes local choirs, marching
bands, solo performers, and Santa
Claus.
On November, 29, from 5 to
6:30 p.m., the holiday season is
ushered in with the official lighting of L.A. County’s Christmas
Tree. The event, at the Music Center Plaza in downtown, features
Burbank’s Providence High School
Choir, area schoolchildren, and the
chamber music brass ensemble,
Brass Pacific.
Tournament of Roses Parade
No holiday season would be
complete in Southern California
without the Tournament of Roses
Parade on New Year’s Day. Whether you go in person or just snuggle
in bed and watch it on television,
this is, truly, the top Southern California holiday event. While those
in other parts of the country can
only dream about the spectacular
flower covered floats under warm
sunshine, we have it right in our
backyard.
Marking its 127th year, the 2016
Tournament of Roses in Pasadena
is more than just a festival of flowers, music and sports: it is America’s New Year Celebration, a salute
to America and the world on the
first day of the year. From pre-bowl
game feasting at Lawry’s Beef Bowl,
to the spectacular Rose Parade and
the Rose Bowl Game on New Year’s
Day, the Tournament of Roses is
“the” Southern California tradition
that is celebrated by the world.
This year also marks the final
year of parade coverage by KTLA
hosts Bob Eubanks and Stephanie
Edwards. After a 38 and 35 year
run (respectively) as hosts of the
KTLA Rose Parade broadcast, the
2016 “Find Your Adventure” Rose
Parade presented by Honda will be
their last. KTLA has been broadcasting the Rose Parade since January 1,
1948 and one year before (1947) on
experimental station, W6XYZ.
These are only a small sampling
of the many wonderful events open
to the public for the holidays in the
area. Many more are at, or near,
your doorstep just waiting for you
and your family.
Marking its 127th year, the 2016 Tournament of Roses in Pasadena is America’s New
Year Celebration. This year’s theme is “Find Your Adventure.”
Old
Town
Pasadena
T
By Glenda Young Moses
T
he Summer of Two Thousand and Fifteen…Friday
evening in Old Town Pasadena…Crowded sidewalks, cafes
and restaurants offering tantalizing
varieties of food. During summer,
the streets are filled with people of
all ages, enjoying the hum of activity and aromas from outdoor tables.
Interesting and well-known shops
Colorado Boulevard at Fair Oaks Avenue looking South, circa 1970.
Photos courtesy of Pasadena Museum of History.
History Preserved and Restored
line the streets with windows showing the latest fashions, fads and necessities – from fine jewelry to metal
parts for air shafts.
It is an exciting place – Old Town
– drawing people from neighboring
and distant areas to experience the
harmony and fun of Pasadena. But
it was not always the sophisticated,
bustling and established center it is
today. Once upon a time.
Go West Young Man…encour-
aged Horace Greeley! And west
they came. The sun, the warmth, the
mountains and the sea drew thousands from the cold eastern states to
California – America’s paradise.
Believers all, they came to make
their fortunes in the fertile fields,
on land that sloped to the sea, and
in clusters of small towns that soon
developed commerce and industry.
Pasadena was such a town. Sheltered at the foot of the San Gabriel
Mountains it became a winter resort
town in 1880, and developed great
tourist hotels catering to Easterners of wealth. New roads and new
neighborhoods were built. Orange
Grove Boulevard was – and still is
– an avenue of magnificent homes
designed by architects of great note.
Business was conducted along
the main street – Colorado Boulevard, or the main cross street, Fair
Oaks Avenue. Here shops displayed
their wares. Small hotels catered to
visitors to the city, and a variety of
cafes offered hot meals and plenty
of hot coffee. Horse-drawn carriages
carried shoppers, business men, and
sightseers in comfort and style.
Merchants often made their own
merchandise, or bought from travel-
ing salesmen. From safety pins to
rolling pins, muslin bolts to leather
belts, all were to be had in the small
stores on Colorado Blvd. Goods
were displayed in the windows.
Butchers cured pork and sliced sides
of beef. Fresh vegetables, potatoes
and beans were all were for sale.
Bread was baked in brick ovens with
the delicious smells wafting over the
busy streets drawing in hungry customers.
Patterns, printed fine cotton for
dresses, serge and denim for stur-
dy work trousers and coats, needles, thread, wax and candles - all
were for sale. Seamstresses sewed
in the stores or worked at home to
complete their garments. Booksellers carried daily journals of events
in town, and printers recorded the
news of activities, business, and new
arrivals.
In the back of stores, craftsmen
made leather saddles and reins,
and in alleys behind the storefronts
were stables for horses, and barns
for carriages. Bins of oats, horseshoes and harnesses lined the walls,
straw spread on the floor to catch
the droppings, and buckets of water
for the thirsty animals were carried
from water pumps to the drinking
troughs.
It was an exciting time - the
start of the 20th century. Pasadena
bustled with new arrivals from the
snowy eastern states and Chinese
immigrants efforts built the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
This connection brought the country, and especially California, a huge
increase in growth and prosperity.
Colorado Boulevard at corner of Raymond Avenue looking West, circa 1970.
The stores on Colorado and
surrounding streets reflected this
increase in business as merchants
improved the appearance of their
buildings. Colorful and ornate brick
facades, awnings shading the windows, signs advertising the mer-
chandise inside - all were designed
to appeal to the growing wealth of
the city. Business was good, and
prosperity was evident.
Decades passed. Pasadena continued to enjoy the trade brought
to the city by the growth in visitors
who remained as residents. Then in
1929, the Great Depression devastated the country and the state. It
brought enormous changes to Pasadena. Wealth became less obvious.
People of means became people of
the streets. And the merchants on
Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks
had fewer customers. The area grew
shabby and forlorn, and for years
became known as Old Pasadena.
Pearl Harbor brought World War
II, and California was a main source
of military munitions and planes.
Manufacturing the arms needed
brought riches for the state. Los Angeles was a key departure point for
troops fighting in the Pacific. Ships
were loaded with planes, munitions
and men, and they came from states
with cold, wet or arid climates. The
delightful weather and charm of
Pasadena was remembered by thousands of soldiers passing through to
fight the war in the Far East.
Those memories made Pasadena a much-desired destination after
the war. The city started to bloom
again. But the growth in the city
was on the outer edges – downtown
was neglected. Shopping centers,
needing more space, were built far
from the city center.
Years would go by. Then in the
1960s, construction of the 210 freeway through Pasadena required the
demolition of many historic homes
and businesses. This disrupted traffic flowing north and south on Fair
Oaks – the main road through Old
Town. Small merchants struggled
to survive. Colorado Boulevard continued to carry traffic east and west,
but construction hastened its decline. Downtown Pasadena became
deserted in some parts, and was
considered dangerous.
Loyalty to Pasadena was unquestioned, but the people of Pasadena needed to support their
families, needed to educate their
children, needed to feel safe. Consequently, in the ‘60s, many residents
moved to other suburban areas or
to the Inland Empire. Old Town
became the home of older, conservative adults.
As the years passed, Old Town
began to intrigue the more daring
Colorado Boulevard looking North,
circa 1970.
ceptive advocates for preservation. Retaining the character and charm of the original
building facades was the primary goal of the
City and the Redevelopment Agency. In the
1980s, Old Town building owners began to
renovate the interiors of stores and buildings
on Fair Oaks and Colorado Boulevard.
One by one merchants began to return
to Pasadena and Old Town. Forlorn and forgotten shops came roaring back to life. The
decay and decadence were banished and Old
Town bloomed with new energy, the latest
fashions, and merchandise in non-traditional
settings.
Today, Old Town Pasadena represents
the national interest in preserving the old
and merging it with the new. Recognizing the
value in saving a town’s history, and restoring vitality while maintaining the charm of
the past, is good business for everyone.
residents of Pasadena - the young
people – with their parents trying to
quash their surging interest in radical music and dress of the time. Never the less, artists and local free spirits took advantage of the low rents
landlords were offering and moved
into Old Town. Small stores with
unique goods, reflecting the mood
and music of the Sixties, flourished.
“Treasures” of the past were sold in
thrift shops and antique stores lining Colorado and Fair Oaks. Bookstores and specialty shops sold items
whose pungent smoke drifted on
the air. Alternative publishers sold
their papers on street corners.
Fashions of the “Mod” era were
seen in stores that could only be
reached by going below ground.
One had a stairway that led down
to a brick- walled cellar with a glass
door covered by an iron grill – the
doorway to The Palace Boutique
where the color, music and excitement of the period filled the air. The
cellar was reputed to have been a
Chinese gambling den in the late
1800s. Above all, the music of the 60s
spread exhilaration throughout the
area. Fun, laughter, hippies - people came from far distances to see
and experience the freedom from
restraint.
But Pasadena Old Town needed
to be preserved. Increasingly threatened by plans for redevelopment it
was saved from destruction by perWinter 2015 • The Quarterly Magazine 35
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The Story of Eggnog
By Tracy Dolezal Macrum
“Christmas is not properly observed unless you brew eggnog for all
comers; everybody calls on everybody
else and each call is celebrated by a
solemn egg-nogging…” –An English
Visitor, 1866.
Eggnog is a drink and a tradition
steeped in as many tales as there are
liquors in it. Most historians and food
anthropologists believe that eggnog
originated during medieval times
from posset, a cocktail made from hot
milk and ale, wine or some other spirit, and spices. Monks were known to
drink posset with eggs and figs. Since
milk, eggs, and brandy were not in everyone’s kitchen, eggnog, as it came to
be called, was mostly enjoyed by the
wealthy.
One story goes that the colonists,
mixing their traditional eggy drink
recipe with “grogg”, a mixture of water or near beer and rum and serving
the drink in a “noggin”, a small wooden carved mug, came up with “eggs
and grog in a noggin.” There are other
renditions of the naming, but it’s not
hard to imagine how after several of
the potent drinks, the name eggnog
was settled on.
The journey of eggnog and the
ingredients picked up along the way,
is a true reflection of the world. In
Puerto Rico, the drink is called coquito and uses coconut milk. In Mexico,
rompope is made with rum. Peru celebrates the holidays with biblia con
pisco with pomace brandy, and the
Germans make an egg soup called
biersuppe, made with beer.
In America, where cows, chickens
and rum were fairly easy to come by,
eggnog became very popular. The
drink would once again undergo a recipe change when the supply of rum to
the U.S. was drastically cut as a result
of the American Revolutionary War
(1775-1783). Not to be deterred, we
turned to our own resources of whiskey and eventually bourbon. Eggnog
was a natural holiday drink due to its
social nature and the merriment it created.
Broguiere’s eggnog is made from an
80 plus year old formula.
George Washington, the first President of the United States, celebrated the holidays in Virginia at Mount
Vernon with his very own concoction.
Here is his eggnog recipe as originally
written: “One quart cream, one quart
milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar,
one pint brandy, ½ pint rye whiskey, ½
pint Jamaica rum, ¼ pint sherry—mix
liquor first, then separate yolks and
whites of eggs, add sugar to beaten
yolks, mix well. Add milk and cream,
slowly beating. Beat whites of eggs
until stiff and fold slowly into mixture.
Let set in cool place for several days.
Taste frequently.” Washington was
sure to give the alcohol measurement
but forgot the number of eggs. It’s estimated a dozen fits the recipe. Don’t
worry too much about the raw eggs;
the alcohol mostly takes care of the
bacteria.
If you’d like to save yourself
the trouble (and maybe a little dysentery), you can pick up a batch of
eggnog at the grocery store. If you’d
like to do yourself a favor, we are fortunate to live near Broguiere’s Farm
(pronounced bro-gare) in Montebello, where since 1920, the family run
business has been making fresh milk
products, including their famous eggnog. There is no debate that the key to
good eggnog is in the recipe. Founder
Ernest Broguiere, a French immigrant
from the Alps, who started his farming
career with lemons, began the dairy
business with a Holstein cow and several hundred-glass bottles. The thick,
creamy drink is made from an 80-plus
year old formula, and the Broguiere’s
sell 9,000 gallons plus per year.
The cows are gone from the farm,
but the glass bottles remain. “Milk in
glass tastes better,” says Ray Broguiere Jr., the dairy’s current owner,
president and grandson of Ernest,
“because it doesn’t pick up additional
flavors from the packaging.” Broguiere’s Farm Fresh Dairy Grocery Store,
where “the milk is so fresh… the cow
doesn’t know it’s missing” sells its
products at a drive-thru window and
is open seven days a week. Broguiere’s is located at 505 S. Maple Avenue
in Montebello. The eggnog can also be
found at certain high end supermarkets. Call the dairy for more information at (323) 726-0524.
The Art of
California Faience
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survey of one of the longest enduring
art potteries in California. The exhibit,
on display from November 15, 2015 to
April 3, 2016, includes some of the studio’s distinctive works that were born
out of a partnership between two former college classmates, William Bragdon and Chauncey Thomas, in Berkeley in 1913. Consisting of more than
120 pieces, the exhibition presents the
full range of the company’s decorative
tiles, vessels, lamps, and sculptures.
California Faience produced pottery in a variety of styles, including
Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, and Moderne, and experimented with and perfected many types of glazing, including variations on matte, bright (shiny),
and crystalline. Firmly grounded in
the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, all works were done by hand;
the only concession to industrial process was the use of slip casting for their
wide array of forms, which still required significant handwork. The two
men personally carried out all aspects
of design and manufacture themselves. Their operation was always
small with a handful of additional
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1927. Porcelain, 10 x 6 1/2 inches. Private Collection.
artists creating wares throughout the
years, including Beniamino Bufano,
Thomas Gotham, and many women
artists, such as Margaret Clayes, Adele
Chase, and Marion Martin.
The exhibition includes stunning
tiles from the company’s most prestigious project, the commission by architect Julia Morgan for a complete environment of tiles for William Randolph
Hearst’s palatial home and grounds in
San Simeon. Morgan likely had seen
the shop’s tile display at the Panama
Pacific International Exposition in
1915, and beginning in 1920, over a period of about ten years, nearly 100,000
tiles were hand-pressed and glazed for
the “Hearst Castle” commission.
As the commission drew to a close
and the Great Depression began, the
studio was able to survive because
of a willingness to adapt to shifting
taste and open its doors to artists of all
stripes. Although it continued to produce art pottery and tiles, the demand
had decreased significantly, and in the
1940s and 50s a vast figurine industry
blossomed. Bragdon dismissed figurines as “cutesy,” but nonetheless California Faience produced high-quality
figurines during this time. The studio
also appealed to young artists and students, encouraging a new generation
by offering them clay and glaze as well
as the opportunity to work in the studio and fire wares for a tiny fee, creating an uplifting and affirming place
for artists in a dire time.
While World War II briefly boosted the pottery industry, the ensuing
years brought a flood of cheap ceramic imports form Europe and Asia. The
California potteries could not compete, and one by one they closed their
doors, including California Faience,
which ceased production in 1959, but
by that time they had secured a lasting
legacy through their creation of beautiful art pottery.
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Air Force One
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The Ultimate
Aircraft
By Tracy Dolezal Macrum
I
n January of 1953, Air Force Flight
8610, carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the
United States (POTUS), was sharing
airspace with Eastern Airlines Flight
8610 over New York City. The planes
crossed paths when air traffic controllers briefly confused them. A disaster
was avoided, but from that point on,
any airplane carrying the president
would be referred to as Air Force One.
Over time, the aircraft itself became
known as Air Force One and today it
is a symbol of the presidency and its
power.
Air Force One is maintained and
operated by the Presidential Airlift
Group, founded in 1944, and by the
White House Military Office. Any craft
the Commander in Chief is on becomes
the “one”. The Vice President is number two, in line to command and as
an aircraft call sign. Many are familiar
with Marine One, the helicopter that
flies the president to Andrews Air Force
Base for his flight, or to Camp David.
Less familiar and infrequently or never used is Navy One, Army One and
Coast Guard One. There was even a
line of presidential yachts, dating back
to the 1860s and ending in the 1970s.
The first president to fly in an airplane was actually an ex-president. In
1910, during the Taft administration,
former President Theodore Roosevelt
flew as a passenger in a Wright bi-plane
at an air show in St. Louis. It would be
another 23 years before the President
of the United States would travel in an
airplane.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took
office in 1933, flew aboard a commercial Boeing 314 Dixie Clipper “flying
boat” to the Casablanca Conference
in Morocco during World War II. The
U.S. Army Air Forces (to become the
U.S. Air Force) was concerned with the
President flying on a commercial plane
and so converted a military aircraft
in 1943. But the Guess Where II, a C-87
Liberator Express, was rejected by the
Secret Service due to its safety record
and it’s resemblance to the B-24 bomb-
er. The plane was however used to fly
senior members of Roosevelt’s administration and even the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, on her goodwill tour to
Latin America in 1944. And so begins
the evolution and tremendous advances of presidential aircraft (see page 51
for a detailed list of the planes and their
presidents).
Various propeller driven aircraft
were used up until the Eisenhower administration (1953-1961), when a Boeing 707 was modified for presidential
use. A sister, or twin ship, is always
built and delivered, used primarily for
personnel transport and in the event
the primary plane is disabled. In 1962,
a Boeing 707 specifically built for presidential use, Special Air Mission (SAM)
26000, was delivered to Washington
D.C. for John F. Kennedy.
The interior and exterior appearance of Air Force One has changed
with the presidents. Kennedy oversaw
the aesthetic re-design and worked
closely with Raymond Loewy, a celebrated commercial and image designer. The signature blue and white theme
settled on by the team for SAM 26000
has remained fifty plus years, through
In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt would fly in the first officially designated,
military aircraft, Sacred Cow, which is now on display at the Air Force Museum in Ohio.
ten presidents and their aircraft.
The presidential planes and Air
Force One have made many memorable flights and numerous firsts
and lasts, some dangerous and some
heartbreaking. In November of 1963,
Lyndon Johnson became president on
board Air Force One 26000. Just days
earlier, the 707 flew Kennedy to Dallas.
While bringing his body back after his
assassination, Johnson was sworn in as
the 36th president.
In 1972, a twin plane was introduced with tail number 27000. This
plane, dubbed the Spirit of American
Democracy, would go on to fly the
most presidents of any Air Force One,
the first of whom was Richard Nixon.
Following the Watergate scandal and
after Nixon’s resignation, Air Force
One flew him from Washington, D.C.
to California. Mid-flight, the crew received word that Gerald Ford had been
sworn in as the next president, and the
plane became SAM 27000. This is the
plane now resting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
Aircraft specifically designed for
presidential use in the beginning, were
equipped with amenities such as luxury upholstery and a sleeping area,
and some state of the art technology
for the time, air to ground telegraph
and telephones. Specific features were
added to cater to the president, like the
retractable elevator to accommodate
Roosevelt in his wheelchair. President
Truman’s Independence, a Douglas DC6, named after his hometown in Missouri and used from 1947 to 1953, could
seat 24 passengers in the main cabin.
Today, the Air Force One aircrafts
have around 4,000 square feet of floor
space on three levels, with custom
crafted furniture and can carry over
70 passengers, 26 of which are crew.
The Presidential Suite features a large
office, bathroom, workout room and
conference room. There is also a medical suite with a doctor permanently
on board, and two food prep galleys
equipped to feed 100 people at a time.
The plane can refuel in midair, fly at a
speed of up to 700 miles an hour and
function as a mobile command center
with advanced secure communications
equipment and on board electronics
hardened to protect against a nuclear
attack.
The president is the president 24
hours a day, seven days a week; he
has to fly on Air Force One. The Commander in Chief makes regular use of
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specially built Pavilion in 2005.
Ronald Reagan in the cockpit of Air Force One with pilots Colonels Robert E. Ruddick and Robert D. Barr in 1982.
Photos courtesy of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
the plane both for domestic use and for
use abroad. Senior advisors, Secret Service officers, traveling press and other
guests also ride on Air Force One. Ronald Reagan used Air Force One to travel to all parts of the world to pursue his
diplomatic goals, taking three trips to
Asia, six to Europe, and twelve trips
to foreign places in the Western Hemi-
sphere. He flew in it to three of his four
summit meetings with Soviet Leader
Mikhail Gorbachev.
Air Force One 27000 was the last
of the 707s used in presidential service. The Spirit of American Democracy
flew seven presidents on 445 missions
(nearly half of which were with Reagan) over the span of 28 years, 2,798
hours and over a million miles. It was
on this plane, in 1987, that President
Reagan flew to Berlin and made his
“Tear down this wall” speech (see
more Air Force One trivia on page 55).
The final flight of Air Force One
27000 was on August 29, 2001. President George W. Bush and First Lady
Laura Bush flew from San Antonio
to Waco, Texas. Besides the required
personnel, also on board were several
former pilots, including Ralph Albertazzie, Bob Ruddick and Danny Barr,
who flew Nixon, Bush Sr. and Reagan,
respectively. Joe Chappell, a flight engineer for Air Force One for nearly 20
years, who flew the original voyage
from the Boeing factory to Andrews
Air Force Base, was also on board.
Bush addressed the crowd “It will carry no more presidents, but it will carry
forever the spirit of American democracy.”
This same plane would fly one
more time as SAM 27000 to San Bernardino International Airport in 2001.
There it was eventually disassembled into large pieces by a team from
Boeing and moved over 102 miles of
streets and freeways to its fitting home
in Simi Valley. The specially designed
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Pavilion, which took five years to
complete, opened on October 21, 2005.
Air Force One 27000 is still the property of the Air Force, but it is on permanent loan to the library and is open for
visitors to tour.
The current Air Force One, SAM
28000 and 29000, have been in service
since 1990. Almost as tall as a six story building and as long as a city block,
the twin planes are creating their own
legacy, flying presidents Bush Sr.,
Clinton, Bush Jr. and Obama.
In January 2015, the Air Force announced the selection of the Boeing
747-8 to replace the current 747s. This
new plane is the longest and second
largest airplane ever built (the first
is a cargo aircraft built in the Soviet
Union). At over 4,700 square feet, it
promises in flight luxury for the future
Commander in Chief, whoever he ...
or she may be.
Check out whitehousemuseum.
org/special/af1 for phenomenal photographs of the fleet of aircraft and
their interiors.
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View Christmas Around the World and the amazing Air Force One Pavilion. Ring
in the new year with an elaborate night of celebration.
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C
elebrate the arrival of 2016 at the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s 7th annual New Year’s
Eve celebration on December 31, from
8 p.m. to 1 a.m. under the wings of Air
Force One! Enjoy an elaborate night of
celebration, extensive hors d’oeuvres,
dinner stations, gourmet desserts, and a
champagne toast at midnight with all of
the party essentials-hats, horns, streamers and more!
Dance to live music played by the
top notch dance band, The Platinum
Groove. Enjoy the classics, ballroom favorites, disco, Motown, and 50s through
the 90’s top hits played by our fabulous
DJ. There will be something for everyone at this extraordinary celebration.
View the amazing Air Force One
Pavilion and Christmas Around the
World holiday tree exhibit from 8:00
p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Watch the ball drop
and more as you welcome in the New
Year!
General Admission (21 and over
only): $150 per person (tax and gratuity
included), includes general seating at
tables of 10. VIP Package (21 and over
only): $175.00 per person (tax and gratuity included), includes preferred seating
with a private table for your group and
wine for your table. Reservations must
be made by Monday, December 28, 2015
at 9 a.m. Cocktail attire is suggested.
Tours of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Museum and Football! The
Exhibition will not be available on this
evening. For more information, to view
a complete menu and to make reservations, please call (805) 577-4057 or visit
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‘The School
For Wives’
Parson’s Nose Theater
Marisa Chandler and Lance Davis from a previous tour of The School for Wives.
“I must find out from Agnes what
I want to know about him, without
her knowing that I’m trying to find
out from her what she knows about
him, and of course, without him
knowing what I know about her.
Here she comes...”
Parson’s Nose Theater presents
a production of Moliére’s hilarious
farce The School for Wives in January
and February 2016, an original adaptation and translation by Parson’s
Nose Artistic Director, Lance Davis.
Old Monsieur Arnolphe is determined to create “the perfect
wife”, uneducated and devoted. He
keeps his orphaned ward, Agnes,
completely isolated and uneducated
until their marriage. Agnes, however, now of age, has other plans. Old
Arnolphe surrounds Agnes with
foolish servants in a secluded house,
but somehow she still falls in love
with handsome, young Horace.
Parson’s Nose Theater is a
non-profit theater company located
in Pasadena, dedicated to introducing classical theater to modern audiences. Through condensed adaptations of the works of Shakespeare,
Moliére, Shaw, Goldoni, Goldsmith
and more, lives of the old, young,
and in-between are enriched with
this introduction to the works of
some of the greatest writers who’ve
ever lived. Parson’s Nose Theater
was founded in 2000 by Lance Davis and Mary Chalon Davis, and is
happy to announce that they will
continue selling their entire season
as “Pay What You Will.” Says Davis,
“It’s essential that all people have
the opportunity to hear the works
of some of the greatest writers in
history. Thanks to our generous
supporters, we can keep all of our
shows affordable – no one is ever
turned away because they couldn’t
afford a ticket.” So join us for one of
Moliére’s most-beloved comedies!
For more information and tickets, call (626) 403-7667, visit parsonsnose.com, or email parsonsnose@
mac.com
Marisa Chandler, Jill Rogosheske, Lance
Davis, Paul Perri in The Middle Class Nobleman.
Supporting Music Education
Pasadena Showcase House
Gretchen McNally and Marilyn Anderson
I
mpeccably designed rooms and
kitchens, beautifully landscaped
grounds ideally suited for the
Southern California lifestyle, delectable gourmet fare at The Restaurant, and a variety of curated items
at The Shops at Showcase are what
have drawn tens of thousands of
people each year to the Pasadena
Showcase House of Design. While
guests delight in visiting one of the
oldest, largest, and most successful
house and garden tours in the country, they often overlook the reason it
takes place--as the annual fundraiser
for the Pasadena Showcase House
for the Arts (PSHA), an all-volunteer
organization that provides music enrichment programs throughout the
community.
The success of the Showcase
House has enabled PSHA to make
cumulative donations of over $20 million in support of several programs.
Through its Gifts and Grants initiative, PSHA has underwritten concerts,
choral productions, musical theater
opera, jazz quartets, marching bands
and orchestras at local schools, senior
centers, and at many other non-profit
organizations. A staple part of PSHA’s
program is music therapy for at-risk
children, scholarships for young musicians, and music education at a variety
of levels. All this is in addition to the
organization’s long-standing support
of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Moreover, PSHA also produces three highly regarded annual
music programs: Pasadena Showcase
House Music Mobile ™, Instrumental
Competition, and the Youth Concert
at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
This year, Gretchen McNally
takes the helm as PSHA’s president
and Marilyn Anderson will serve as
benefit chair of the 52nd Pasadena
Showcase House of Design. Each year,
the four-week event takes place at an
estate of architectural significance. The
property is completely renovated by
prominent designers using the latest
color trends, concepts, products and
technology. The Shops at Showcase is
a collection of unique boutiques with
exclusive merchandise ranging from
edgy to luxurious. The Restaurant
at Showcase is a wonderful venue
to relax and enjoy delicious fare. The
Showcase House is open to the public for tours from April 17 to May 15,
2016. Tickets go on sale in early February 2016. Visit pasadenashowcase.
org to purchase tickets or to get additional information about the Pasadena
Showcase House of Design.
W
W
Gingerbread
hen Marco Polo came back
from the Far East, next to
pepper, which was used
“to cover the taste of meats preserved
throughout winter without the benefit of refrigeration,” ginger was the
next most highly prized spice.
Used initially as a medicine, it
was found to be a bread substance
preservative. During Medieval fairs
in European countries, ginger biscuits were cut in the shapes of castles, kings, queens and flags.
In parts of Germany, gingerbread was not baked at home but
made exclusively by the Guild of
Master Bakers called Lebkuchler.
They made houses, which they
called Knusperhauschen, meaning
“houses for nibbling at.”
Gingerbread had historic “roots”
in the American colonies when one
of the ingredients, molasses, was
taxed excessively in the 1733 Molasses Act. The tax was on molasses
brought in from any country other
than Great Britain.
Different gourmet cooks prefer either the hard or soft gingerbread. The most popular “soft” recipe is said to have come down from
George Washington’s mother. Her
recipe was found in “an old worn
cookery book,” according to the curators of the American Museum at
Houses for Nibbling At
Photo by William Ericson
Bath in England.
While gingerbread boys and
girls are good for beginners, it takes
a real artist to create gingerbread
houses. Innovative decorating ideas
include use of different candies, nuts
and popcorn. Although edible, gingerbread houses somehow seem too
special to eat.
This is an excerpt from the story
written by Norma LeValley, originally
run in the winter 1994 issue of South
Pasadena Quarterly.
Soft Gingerbread Recipe Attributed to George Washington’s Mother
(Mary Ball Washington)
½ cup butter
½ cup dark brown moist sugar
½ cup treacle or molasses
½ cup golden syrup
½ cup warm milk
2 tbsp ground ginger
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 ½ tsp ground mace
1 ½ tsp grated nutmeg
3 tbsp cooking sherry
1 tsp cream of tartar
3 cups plain flour
3 eggs, well beaten
juice and grated rind of 1 large orange
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, dissolved
in 2 tbsp of warm water
1 cup sultanas or raisins
Cream the butter with the sugar and
beat well. Add the syrups, milk, spices and sherry and mix very well. Sift
the cream of tartar with the flour and
add this mixture alternately with the
beaten egg to butter mixture, mixing
in each addition well. Add orange
juice and grated rind and dissolved
soda raisins.
Pour into a well-greased baking pan,
about 12x9x3 inches, and bake in
a moderate oven (350° F) for 45-50
minutes.
Celebrating Romance in
the Animal Kingdom
The Presidential Planes
Where are They Now?
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
W
hile the Los Angeles Zoo
is best known as one of
Southern
California’s
most family-friendly destinations,
it’s adults only for Sex and the City
Zoo, an extraordinary Valentine’s
Day event celebrating romance in
the animal kingdom on Saturday,
February 13, 2016, 5 to 7 p.m., in
the Zoo’s Witherbee Auditorium.
The lighthearted affair begins
with a reception featuring tempting desserts, alluring wines and
“animal walk-abouts,” which include chats with keepers and the
chance to observe small animals
up close. At the heart of the evening is a provocative presentation
about relationships in the animal
kingdom by an animal expert offering insights on animal mating,
dating and cohabitating. The event
Dixie Clipper Boeing 314 (flying boat, shown above) 1943 - Roosevelt sold for scrap.
The Guess Where II (C-87A Liberator Express) 1943-1945 - Roosevelt scraped in 1945.
Love is in the air! Los Angeles Zoo’s
jaguar couple.
Photo by Jamie Pham
Owned and operated by CEADRAM, Inc. BRE#01908340
climaxes with an intimate threecourse dinner (for an additional
fee) at Reggie’s Bistro inside the
Zoo.
For ticket and additional information, contact (323) 644-4200
or visit lazoo.org. The Los Angeles
Zoo and Botanical Gardens is located in Griffith Park at the junction of the Ventura (134) and Golden State (5) freeways. 5333 Zoo
Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
Free parking is available.
It must be love. A Monitor couple
sharing a meal. Photo by Tad Motoyama
The Sacred Cow (Douglas C-54 Skymaster VC-54C) 1944-1947 – Roosevelt, Truman - National Museum of the United States Air Force, Ohio.
The Independence (Douglas DC-6 Liftmaster VC-118) 1947-1953 – Truman, Eisenhower - named after Truman’s hometown in Missouri. This
airplane is on exhibit now at the National Museum of the United States
Air Force, Ohio.
Columbine II (Super Constellation Lockheed VC-121E) circa 1953-1962
– Eisenhower, Kennedy – named after the Colorado state flower and the
plane involved in the near miss incident. The owner of a Virginia aviation
company is restoring the aircraft. Columbine III, the sister ship, is on exhibit at National Museum of the United States Air Force, Ohio.
Aero Commanders (L-26C Aero Commander 680 Super & 560 demonstrator) circa 1956-1961 – Eisenhower - National Museum of the United
States Air Force, Ohio.
SAM 970, 971 and 972 Boeing 707 (VC-137A-C) circa 1958-1996, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton
- These were the first presidential jet aircraft. SAM 970 is at the Museum of
Flight in Seattle, Washington.
SAM 26000 Boeing 707 (VC-137) 1962-1998 - Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon,
Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton - National Museum of the United
States Air Force, Ohio.
SAM 27000 Boeing 707 (VC-137) 1972-2001 – Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan,
Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr. - Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, California
SAM 28000 and 29000 Boeing 747 (VC-25A) 1990- present - Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama - A new Air Force One is scheduled to go into service
in 2017.
Queen Anne Cottage Holiday Tour
Los Angeles County Arboretum
& Botanic Garden
The Queen Anne Cottage is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
E
njoy an Old Fashioned Holiday at the Queen Anne
Cottage on Sunday, December 13, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Stroll down memory lane and
view treasures and furnishings
normally seen only through the
windows of the charming Victorian-era cottage. The dwelling,
decorated in its Christmas finery,
has become a Southland tradition for holiday visitors. Tours
will be available throughout the
day. Visitors will learn about the
history of the Queen Anne Cottage. After the tour, stop by the
historic Coach Barn of the Santa
Anita Depot.
Elias Jackson (“Lucky”) Baldwin’s Queen Anne Cottage was
constructed in 1885-86, probably as a honeymoon gift for his
fourth wife, sixteen- year-old Lillie Bennett. “For a year after she
married Baldwin (May, 1884),
this little girl was queen of the
ranch,” wrote the Los Angeles
Times. Lillie’s father, architect
Albert A. Bennett, designed the
cottage, but the honeymooners
apparently never enjoyed its
beauty. Lillie and E.J. separated
in 1885, and the fanciful house
was converted by its owner into
a memorial to the third Mrs.
Baldwin, Jennie Dexter, who had
died in 1881. A stained glass portrait of Jennie stood welcome in
the front door and an almost lifesize oil painting of her was hung
in the Cottage parlor. Both items
remain today.
The Baldwin cottage (the
designation “Queen Anne” was
added in later years in reference
to its architectural style) was the
Santa Anita Ranch guest house.
Cooking and dining facilities
and Baldwin’s personal quarters were located in a modernized eight-room version of the
old adobe house found on the
property at the time of purchase.
Friends, relatives and business
associates of Lucky Baldwin, including stars from the Baldwin
Theater in San Francisco, partook of ranch hospitality until
E.J.’s death in 1909.
With the settlement of the
Baldwin estate, Lucky’s daughter Anita (born in 1876 to Jennie Dexter) closed the Cottage
and disposed of all furnishings.
Fortunately, Anita removed and
stored in the Coach Barn such
detachable components as the
stained glass windows, black
walnut doors, marble fireplace
mantels, the hearth tiles, and the
encaustic tile mosaic entry floor.
All of these items, plus original bathroom fixtures and the
exterior marble walkway, were
returned to the Cottage during
the restoration of 1951-53. Refurnishing continues today with
appropriate period pieces. The
Queen Anne Cottage is listed on
the National Register of Historic
Places.
The Los Angeles County
Arboretum & Botanic Gardens
is located at 301 North Baldwin
Avenue, Arcadia. For more information, please visit arboretum.org or call (626) 821-3222.
AIR FORCE
ONE Trivia
A
lthough there is nothing trivial
about Air Force One, there are
quite a few tidbits on the most
recognizable symbol of the presidency:
Several cargo planes typically fly
ahead of Air Force One to provide the
president with services needed in remote locations, including the presidential motorcade.
The “football” is a briefcase with
the nuclear codes that travels with the
president in case of a nuclear attack.
On board Air Force One, the football
is handed off to a commissioned officer, who stays near the president at all
times. The only time Air Force One took
off without the “football” was when
ter, ships and rescue aircraft dot the water and are ready to intercept water to
air attacks.
Air Force One is famous worldwide, so much so that when then-Prime
Minister of the UK, Tony Blair, indicated
a desire for a similar personal air transport, the press immediately dubbed it
“Blair Force One.”
Air Force One has been depicted in
movies such as Air Force One, Superman:
The Movie, and By Dawn’s Early Light, as
well as in books such as Robert Serling’s
novel The President’s Plane Is Missing,
and its sequel Air Force One Is Haunted,
which was subsequently adapted for a
TV movie.
Air Force One usually does not
have fighter aircraft to escort the presidential aircraft. In June of 1974, on a
flight to the Middle East with Nixon
on board, Syrian fighter jets intercepted
Air Force One to act as escorts. Unfortu-
nately, the Air Force One crew did not
get the memo and, as a result, took evasive action including a dive.
Joe Lockhart became the first
White House Press Secretary ever to
miss Air Force One. While on a trip to
Russia, during the Clinton administration, Lockhart caught up with a friend
in Moscow, stayed out a little too late,
slept in and missed the flight.
Air Force One over Manhattan in 2009. Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force.
President Nixon flew home after his
resignation and Ford was signed into
office on the ground.
In 2009, Air Force One flew over
Manhattan on a mission approved by
the White House Military Office. The
incident, purely a photo op, panicked
some New Yorkers who thought they
were watching a repeat of the September 11 attacks.
There’s an aircraft called the
doomsday plane, which is said to be
able to withstand a nuclear bomb, asteroid blasts and terror attacks while
staying airborne for days without refueling. It’s referred to as the “National
Airborne Operations Center” when it’s
called into action, which reportedly last
happened on September 11, 2001.
When Air Force One flies over wa-
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DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
The Eggnog Riot
Vin Scully
Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully is scheduled to return
to the Dodgers for his 67th - and final season - in 2016. But
Dodger fans might not realize their beloved voice of the
Brooklyn/Los Angeles franchise was actually a fan of the
National League rival Giants as a kid. Born in New York on
November 29, 1927, Scully grew up in the shadows of the
Polo Grounds and his favorite player was outfielder Mel
Ott.
pHoTo by Jon sooHoo.
The Eggnog Riot, also called the Grog Mutiny, occurred at
the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. on
December 23–25, 1826. Alcohol was prohibited on site, so
the decision was made to smuggle whiskey into the barracks to make eggnog for a Christmas day party. The incident involved more than one third of the cadets and resulted
in the court-martialing of twenty of them, and one enlisted
soldier. See the story of eggnog on page 36.
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
The Rose Bowl Game
Firemen Get Paid
On February 1, 1886, 31 firemen, including the Chiefs, and
24 reserve firemen, entered the city’s payroll. At that time,
Los Angeles had 35,000 residents and many carried handguns. In fact, three shots fired into the air was a typical
signal of a discovered fire. Prior to 1886, the volunteer organization consisted of 380 members, shown below at an
1870s parade in Downtown L.A.
The first Tournament of Roses football game, which was the
first post-season football game in the nation, was at Tournament Park in Pasadena on January 1, 1902. Michigan
crushed Stanford, 49-0, prompting the football contest to be
replaced with yearly Roman-style chariot races and Ostrich
races. Football was permanently reinstated as part of the
Tournament’s traditions in 1916 when on January 1, at the
2nd Rose Bowl game, Washington State beat Brown 14-0.
The Rose Bowl opened for the 9th Rose Bowl game in 1923
when USC defeated Penn State 14-3.
Winter 2015
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WEEKLY FARMERS’ MARKETS
Tues. - Pasadena 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Villa Park Center, 363 East Villa St. at
Garfield Ave. Accepts cash and EBT
only. Rain or shine. Call (626) 449-0179
or visit pasadenafarmersmarket.org.
Highland Park Old L.A. 3 – 8 p.m. Ave
57 and Marmion Way next to the Metro Gold Line Highland Park Station.
(323) 255-5030 or oldla.org.
Wed. - Pasadena 3:30 – 7:30 p.m. Playhouse District, northeast corner of El
Molino Ave. and Union St. May 16
through September 26.
Huntington Park 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Salt-Lake Park on Bissell St. (866) 4663834.
Thurs. - South Pasadena 4–7 p.m.
4-8 p.m. after Mar. 8. Meridian Ave.
and El Centro St. on the Metro Gold
Line by South Pasadena Station.
Sat. - La Cañada Flintridge 9 a.m. – 1
p.m. 1300 Foothill Blvd., across from
Memorial Park.
Pasadena 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Victory Park, East Sierra Madre Blvd. at
Paloma St. (626) 449-0179.
Ventura 8:30 a.m. – noon. City parking lot at Santa Clara and Palm Streets.
(805) 529-6266.
Sun. - Monrovia 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Library Park, 100 block W. Lime Ave.
(866) 440-3374.
Hollywood 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. Ivar and
Selma Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 4633171.
Mid-City West. 3rd Street and Fairfax
Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 933-9211.
FLEA MARKETS
pasadena CiTy College Flea marKeT
First Sunday Every Month
One of the Southland’s largest flea
markets, the event is held the first
Sunday of every month. More than
500 vendors feature fascinating antiques and collectibles, records, tools,
clothes and toys. 1570 E. Colorado
Blvd. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (626) 585-7906.
rose bowl Flea marKeT
Second Sunday Every Month
Rose Bowl Flea Market and Market
Place. One of the most famous flea
markets in the world. Regular admission starts at 9 a.m. for the general
public at $8 per person, children under
12 are admitted free with an adult. Express admission from 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. at
$10 per person. The box office is open
until 3 p.m. The public may shop until
4:30 p.m. (323) 560-7469.
MUSEUMS
THe gamble House
4 Westmoreland Pl., Pasadena - (626)
793-3334 gamblehouse.org
Tue., Feb. 23, 7 p.m.- Gamble House
Lecture: The Rediscovery of Greene &
Greene - Ann Scheid, Greene & Greene
Archivist at the Huntington Library,
tells the story of how the architectural brothers found fame in their later
years by a new Arts & Crafts audience
in the 1950s. $30, $25 FoGH members.
www.Gamble House.org.
THe gilb museum oF arCadia HeriTage
380 W. Huntington Dr., Arcadia - (626)
574-5440 http://museum.ci.arcadia.
ca.us
Through Jan. 16 - Blinkers and Winkers:
Stars of the Silver Screen at Santa Anita
Park, 40s and 50s - Enjoy this winter exhibit of photographs from the 30s - 50s
about movie stars! From the Museum’s permanent collections. Step back
in time, remember the glamour of the
silver screen and see the movie stars
as they engage in daily life.
Thurs., Jan. 21, 12 p.m. - Lunchtime
Talks A History of the Old Mill: El Molino Viejo with Cathy Brown, The Old
Mill Foundation.
Jan. 30 - Mar. 19, 2 p.m. - The Spirit
of Chinese Brush Painting: Artwork of
Master Tam and His Students - Back
for another refreshing exhibit, Master Tam and his students will be presenting their talents in this serene and
beautiful art form.
Sat., Feb. 6, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. - The
Personal Museum Preservation Series:
Postcard Dating - Every family has its
own personal museum at home. Come
to the Gilb Museum for these continuing workshops on how to care for and
preserve your family’s treasures.
Thurs., Feb. 18, 12 p.m. - Lunchtime
Talks The Chamber was There with Scott
Hettrick, Arcadia Chamber of Commerce CEO.
First Tuesday of the Month. 2:30 p.m.
- 3:30 p.m. - Ask the Curator: Preserving Your Family Treasures - Get helpful advice on preserving your personal memorabilia.
Third Tuesday of the Month. 2:30
p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Those were the Days
Sing-Along - Join in the fun and sing
old-time songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and
‘40s!
HeriTage sQuare museum
3800 Homer St., Los Angeles - (323)
225-2700 heritagesquare.org
Sat. & Sun., Dec. 5 & 6, 4 p.m. - 20th
Annual Holiday Lamplight Celebration - Witness as the past becomes the
present among the beautiful glow of
Victorian homes at Heritage Square’s
annual holiday event. Advance reservations are required. This program
not suitable for children under 6 years.
norTon simon museum
411 West Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 449-6840 nortonsimon.org
Fri., Dec. 4, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Film:
Little Women (1994) - In adaptation
of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, the March sisters confront growing pains, financial shortages, family
tragedies and romantic rivalries in
mid-19th-century Massachusetts. Jo
(Winona Ryder) struggles for independence and sometimes clashes with
her beloved mother (Susan Sarandon)
and her sisters Meg, Amy and Beth.
Fri., Dec. 4, 6 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. - Tour:
Highlights of the Collection - Join a
Museum educator for a tour looking
at highlights of the Museum’s collection.
Fri., Dec. 4, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. - Drawing
Class: Drawing the Norton Simon
Masterworks - Design, Artist, architectural illustrator and author Richard
E. Scott conducts a six-session course,
drawing from a variety of masterworks throughout the Museum. Students learn how to improve visual
perception and how to work toward
finding their own voice.
Sun., Dec. 6, 2 p.m. - Stories in the
Afternoon: Winter’s Tale - As the seasons begin to change, discover a place
where pop-up animals and trees fill
a snow-covered landscape. Make an
artwork inspired by this winter’s tale
using color pencils and foam stickers.
Pasadena museum oF CaliFornia arT
490 East Union St., Pasadena (626) 568-3665 pmcaonline.org
Through Apr. 3 - The Nature of William S. Rice: Arts and Crafts Painter
and Printmaker - A rare glimpse into
the private world of William S. Rice
(1873–1963), an artist and avid naturalist known for his ability to refine
nature to its simplest forms. Featuring
over 50 watercolors and block prints,
the works, some on public view for
the first time, illuminate the techniques and approaches Rice used to
singularly capture and depict the California landscape.
Sat., Dec. 5, 1 p.m. - The History of
Arts and Crafts Design in Pasadena Edward R. Bosley, James N. Gamble
Director of the Gamble House, leads
a discussion on the history of the Arts
and Crafts movement in Pasadena.
Joining Bosley are Ann Scheid, Curator of the Greene and Greene Archives
at the Gamble House, and Dr. Robert
Winter, noted California architectural
historian and professor emeritus at
Occidental College.
Sat., Dec. 12, 2 - 3:30 p.m. - Children’s
Workshop: Printmaking with Potatoes
- Artist William Rice is best known for
his woodblock prints, but when he
was young he created potato prints
with his grandmother. Create your
own print by carving a design into a
potato and stamping. The youngest
printmakers can participate by stamping with pre-cut potatoes and celery.
All ages welcome!
Sat., Jan. 16, 2 - 3:30 p.m. - Children’s
Workshop: Exploring Nature and Creative Watercolor - An avid naturalist
and explorer, William Rice traveled
across the Southwest United States
sketching, painting, and photographing all he saw. Setting out on our own
adventure, young PMCA explorers
will venture outside the Museum
walls to photograph or sketch the
nature of Pasadena. Returning to the
Museum, children will create a watercolor based on their sketch or photograph and compose a poem about
their adventure. All ages welcome!
Note: Cameras not provided.
Sat., Jan. 23 & Mar. 5, 2 - 4 p.m. - Block
Printing Workshop - Join artist Dave
Lefner for a relief printmaking workshop. Lefner will discuss his prints
and inspirations as well as the reductive printmaking process, which was
invented by Picasso in the 1950s.
Sat., Feb. 6, 2 - 4 p.m. - Ceramics
Workshop: Slipcasting and Glazing a
Vessel - Join artist Alex Reed for a ceramic workshop. The workshop will
open with a discussion on the slipcasting and glazing processes as well as
other ways of making ceramic objects,
following which participants will cast
a vessel using a ceramic mold as well
as decorate with glaze an already fired
ceramic vessel. Participants’ glazed
objects will be fired by Reed and returned to them after the workshop.
Sat., Feb. 13, 5 p.m. - Special After-hours Exhibition Walkthrough
- Curator Kirby Brown leads a walkthrough of the exhibition Of Cottages
and Castles: The Art of California Faience. We are happy to offer free admission to the museum in conjunction
with this program, beginning at 4pm.
Sat., Feb. 20, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Children’s Workshop: Bookmaking and
Storytelling - Concepts of the well-designed page, beautiful typefaces, and
decorative borders were important to
Arts and Crafts bookmakers. Handcraft a book and begin work on your
narrative and decorative elements at
this workshop. All ages welcome!
Sat., Mar. 19, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Children’s Workshop: Landscape Embroidery - Ideas of craft and simplicity
manifested themselves in decorative
work, including needlepoint and
embroidery. Learn basic stitches and
techniques to represent the texture of
nature to create an embroidered landscape. All ages welcome!
Sun., Mar. 20, 2 p.m. - Exhibition
Walkthrough - Join us for a guided
tour of The Nature of William S. Rice:
Arts and Crafts Painter and Printmaker with PMCA Exhibition Manager
Erin Aitali.
Pasadena Museum of History
470 W. Walnut St., Pasadena 91103 Admission: $7 - (626) 577-1660 www.
pasadenahisory.org
Tue., Jan. 19, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Dressed in Diamonds: American Princesses & Gilded Age Fashion - Join Kevin
Jones, Curator at the FIDM Museum,
for a fascinating lecture on the opulent
fashion of “The Gilded Age,” a term
popularized by prolific writer and social-commentator Mark Twain.
Dressed in Diamonds: American Princesses &
Gilded Age Fashion
Tue., Jan. 26, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. - Gatsby’s Women: Fashionable Ideals of the
1920s - F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby, published in 1925, reflects a
time of dramatic feminine transformation. Christina Johnson, Associate
Curator at the FIDM Museum, will
provide an overview of jazz age fashion, Hollywood film icons, and 1920s
high society.
Tue., Feb. 2, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. - Pulling Down the Curtain: Exploring Walter
Plunkett’s Hollywood Legacy - Walter
Plunkett, a man responsible for hundreds of celebrated designs in more
than 260 films over a forty-year period, is not a household name. Plunkett’s career as a self-taught costume
designer included one of the most
iconic film costumes of all time: Scarlett O’Hara’s Curtain Dress. Join us
as Joanna Abijaoude, Museum Associate, brings Walter Plunkett’s legacy
out from behind the shadows and illustrates why his work made a lasting
and relevant impact in the world of
costume design.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
and Museum
40 Presidential Dr., Simi Valley - (800)
410-8354 ReaganLibrary.com
Through Jan. 3, - Christmas Around
the World - Back by popular demand,
is pleased to announce that Christmas
Around the World is back after a sixyear hiatus. It includes 26 exquisitely
decorated trees representing the 26
countries that President Reagan visited while in office, as well as a White
House Tree. Decorations encompass
the bright and festive colors of the
Caribbean, the crystals of the Nordic
countries and the traditional decorations of England and Europe. Of
particular note is the Vatican tree decorated entirely with white ornaments
featuring a life-size white peacock
that adorns the tree’s branches.
Through Sun., Jan. 17 - Football! This
5,000 square foot exhibition features
some of the most rare, historic and
iconic football artifacts, including
game-worn and signed jerseys, Lombardi and Heisman Trophies, Super
Bowl Rings, and more.
Sun., Dec. 6, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Holiday on the Hill - Celebrate this
magical season with your family and
friends. This spectacular evening of
wonderful holiday performers, magnificent music, and delectable gourmet
food is a much anticipated gathering
every year! Enjoy special performances by Oak Park High School, Conejo
Valley Youth Orchestra, and other lo-
cal groups and entertainment.
Wed., Dec. 16, 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Holiday Lunch and Tour - Enjoy an
elegant served meal and delectable
dessert prepared by our Presidential
Chef, followed by a docent led tour of
the Ronald Reagan Presidential Museum and the spectacular Air Force One
Pavilion. View our wonderful holiday
tree exhibit, Christmas Around the
World, featuring 26 beautifully decorated trees representing the countries
President Reagan visited while in office.
Sat., Feb. 6, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. - President Reagan’s Birthday Celebration
- To honor President Ronald Reagan
on the anniversary of his birthday,
the President of the United States has
designated that a program be held at
President Reagan’s Memorial Site at
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library each year. Please join us as we
pay tribute to President Reagan on the
anniversary of his 105th birthday.
Sat., Feb. 6, 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. President Reagan’s Birthday Lunch
Tour - Celebrate President Reagan on
the anniversary of his birthday. This
special day will begin with a served
meal and delectable dessert prepared
by the Library’s Presidential Chef.
Following the served lunch, guests
will receive a docent-led tour of the
Reagan Museum and the Air Force
One Pavilion.
Sat., Feb. 13, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. - Valentine’s Day Sweetheart’s Dinner and
Dance - Guests will dine at intimate
tables for two and will enjoy a complimentary glass of champagne. There
will be reserved and preferred table
seating available for groups of four of
more. You will be served a delicious
three-course meal by our professional wait staff, including gourmet hors
d’oeuvres, while listening to live music.
Mon., Feb. 15, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. - Annual Presidents Day Celebration This celebration includes fun for the
whole family, including crafts, musical entertainment, storytelling, and
presidential and first lady lookalikes.
Hot dogs, pie, and other all-American
food will be available for purchase.
Presidents Day activities are free to
the public.
ARTS
A Noise Within
3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena - (626)
356-3100 anoisewithin.org
Sat., Dec. 5 through Wed., Dec. 23 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Wonder, winter, and wit are here; all
hail Dickens’ Christmas cheer! Backstage calls it “a beautifully appointed,
droll, and heartfelt take on a timeless
holiday staple.” Recommended for
ages 6 and up.
Arcadia Performing Arts Center
188 Campus Drive at North Santa Anita Avenue, Arcadia – (626) 821-1781
Sat., Jan. 9, 8 p.m. – ABBAMANIA &
Night Fever - Accomplished studio
musicians will take you back to a time
when ABBA and the Bee Gees ruled
the pop music world.
Sat., Feb. 20, 8 p.m. - Herb Alpert &
Lani Hall Come Fly With Us Tour -
With eleven GRAMMY® Awards between them, trumpeter Herb Alpert
and vocalist Lani Hall infuse an eclectic mix of jazz, world, and American
pop standards with their uniquely
effervescent and joyful sound in their
Come Fly With Us Tour.
Sat., May 14, 8 p.m. – An Evening
with Hiroshima - With the intoxicating mix of traditional Japanese folk
music and instruments interwoven
with jazz, R&B and Salsa, Hiroshima
brings their unique mix of East meets
West to the Arcadia Performing Arts
Center.
Sat., Jun. 4, 8 p.m. – Daniel Ho with
Warmest Aloha - Join us for a feel-good
island evening featuring a collaboration of GRAMMY award winner musician Daniel Ho and world-renowned
kumu hula, Keali’i Ceballos. Daniel’s
thoughtful musicality and beautiful
vocals will accompany graceful hula
by Keali’i O Nalani.
California Art Club
The California Art Club Gallery is at
The Old Mill, 1120 Old Mill Rd., San
Marino. No admission charge. For
more information please call (626)
583-9009 or visit californiaartclub.org.
Through Sun., Jan. 10 - The Club
presents the final exhibition in its Road
Trip series with A Toast to California:
Regional and Seasonal.
Through Tues., Jan. 26 - With the exhibition Small Town, U.S.A., the Club
artists showcase paintings that reveal
quaint and cozy scenes of Americana,
which provide a sense of nostalgia
and familiarity to the viewer. On
view at the Altadena Town & Country
Club, 2290 Country Club Drive, Altadena. No admission charge.
Tues., Jan. 12 to May 15, - The Club
artists share striking images of exotic
adventures and foreign travel with
Traversing the Globe. A reception with
the exhibiting artists will be held on
Thursday, January 14.
Sat., Feb. 20 and 21 - The Club and
Santa Anita Park present the Grand
Plein Air Paint/Sculpt-Out, at which
artists will create new works “in the
open air” of the famed thoroughbred
racetrack in preparation for a special
exhibition at the Park in June. Santa
Anita Park, 285 W. Huntington Drive,
Arcadia.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
For information please call (213) 6227001, or visit laco.org. Concert venues:
Zipper Hall, 200 S Grand Ave., downtown L.A., Alex Theatre, 216 North
The Nutcracker
Here are several options we think
you may enjoy!
Inland Pacific Ballet, Nov. 28 & 29
Arcadia Performing Arts Center
188 Campus Dr. (at N. Santa Anita),
Arcadia (626) 821-1781 • www.arcadiapaf.org
Los Angeles Ballet, Dec. 4 & 5
Alex Theater, 216 N. Brand Blvd.,
Glendale (310) 998-7782 • losangelesballet.org
Pasadena Dance Theater, Dec. 12Dec. 23, San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, 320 S. Mission Dr., San
Gabriel (626) 683-3459 • pasadenadance.org
Marat Daukayev Ballet Theatre,
Dec. 11, 12 & 13, The Luckman
Theatre at Cal State L.A., 5151 State
University Dr., Los Angeles 323343-6600 • maratdaukayev.org.
Debbie Allen’s The Hot Chocolate
Nutcracker, Dec. 18 & 19
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 135 N.
Grand Ave., Los Angeles
(213) 972-8550 • Thehotchocolatenutcracker.com
City Ballet of Los Angeles,
The Nutcracker Swings, Dec. 19 &
20, Wilshire Ebell Theatre 4401 W.
8th St., Los Angeles
(323) 292-1932 • cityballetofla.org
Brand Blvd., Glendale. Moss Theater,
3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica,
UCLA’s Royce Hall, 340 Royce Dr.,
L.A.
Dec. 12 & 13, 7 p.m. & 8 p.m. - Guest
conductor Peter Oundjian, music
director of the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra and Scotland’s Royal National Orchestra, makes his Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO)
debut leading two performances on
Saturday at Alex Theatre, Glendale,
and Sunday at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Oundjian, described as “consistently
illuminating” by Gramophone, conducts Bartók’s brilliant Divertimento,
Beethoven’s sunny Symphony No. 4
in B-flat major, Op. 60, and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.
64, among the greatest violin concertos ever written, featuring violinist
Stefan Jackiw, YouTube sensation, in
his Los Angeles debut.
Sat., Jan. 23, 8 p.m. - Music Director
Jeffrey Kahane serves as musical “tour
guide” for LACO’s annual “Discover”
program, which this season features a
special one-night-only exploration of
Bach’s popular Cantata No. 140, featuring soprano Teresa Wakim, tenor
Colin Ainsworth, bass Andrew Craig
Brown, the venerated USC-Thornton
Chamber Singers and acclaimed Los
Angeles Children’s Chorus at Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium. The
work is one of approximately 200
surviving sacred cantatas composed
by Bach and noted for their remarkable range of expression and musical
styles.
Thu., Feb. 4, 7 p.m. - Baroque Conversations Spotlights LACO Principal
Bassoon Kenneth Munday and Works
by Boismortier, Rameau, Telemann,
Handel, Zachow and Fasch at the Zipper Hall, downtown Los Angeles.
Sat., Feb. 13 - LACO’s Annual Gala
Fundraiser highlighted by a special
performance featuring Music Director Jeffrey Kahane and members of
the Orchestra, includes silent and live
auctions and a sumptuous dinner.
This elegant fundraiser benefits concert series, radio broadcasts and community engagement programs. Location and time to be announced.
Sat., Feb. 20, 8 p.m. & Sun., Feb. 21,
7 p.m. - Guest Conductor Matthias
Pintscher Makes LACO Debut Conducting Works by Fauré, Schoenberg,
Ravel and Beethoven. Shows at Alex
Theatre and Royce Hall, respectively.
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Sat., Jan. 30, 2 p.m. & Sun., Jan. 31,
7 p.m. - Two Performances of Verdi’s
towering Requiem, a “thrilling opera
in disguise” (National Public Radio),
with stellar guest soloists Amber
Wagner, soprano, Michelle DeYoung,
mezzo soprano, Joshua Guerrero, tenor, and Morris Robinson, bass. Walt
Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, (213) 972-7282
www.lamc.org
Pasadena Playhouse
39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena 626)-356-7529 PasadenaPlayhouse.org
Dec. 9 - Jan 3. - Peter Pan and Tinker
Bell-A Pirates Christmas - John O’Hurley, Chrissie Fit & Parvesh Cheena star
in this year’s Peter Pan and Tinker
Bell. The show features comedy, magic, dancers from “So You Think You
Can Dance”, and contemporary music from Taylor Swift to the Bee Gees.
Ages 2-102! One hour before shows,
guest are invited to enjoy “Winter
Wonderland” in the Engemann Family Courtyard, complete with holiday
crafts, activities and Santa photos.
Restoration Concert Series
Winter Sunday Concerts are held at
4 p.m. in the South Pasadena Library
Community Room located at 1115 El
Centro Street. For more information
call 626-799-6333.
Thu., Jan. 31 - Fiato Quartet
Thu., Feb. 21 - Piano Trio featuring Cindy Lam - piano, Radu Peiptea - violin,
and Rebecca Merblum - cello.
GARDENS
Descanso Gardens
418 Descanso Dr., La Cañada
Flintridge (828) 949-4200 descansogardens.org.
Sat. & Sun., Dec. 5-6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Botanic Bling - Descanso’s trunk
show of nature-themed jewelry and
accessories, returns just in time for
holiday shopping. The event will feature unique wares from a host of independent vendors and craftspeople.
Don’t forget to pick up a little special
something for yourself! Free with admission.
Sat., Dec. 5, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. - Wreath
Making - Make a beautiful wreath
from natural materials for your winter decorating. Descanso staff will
provide expert instruction to get you
going. $40 includes materials. Early
registration encouraged as class typically fills up.
Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. - Little Explorers - Bring youngsters ages 2 to 5 to
explore Descanso Gardens from the
ground up. On the first Saturday of
the month, Little Explorers will use
their senses to discover the natural
world of the garden through hands-
Jennifer Gunlock, Smoke Signal.
at Descanso Gardens
on activities and crafts. Free with admission.
Sat., Dec. 12, 10 - 11 a.m. - Junior Gardeners - On the second Saturday of
the month, come explore with your
6 to 10 year olds and learn about gardening, plants, nature and green living through hand-on activities, journaling and stories. Free with admission.
Sun., Dec. 20, 9:30 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.
- Breakfast with Santa Sunday - Share
a jolly morning with the Man in Red!
The breakfast includes a sumptuous
breakfast buffet with choices sure to
appeal to all ages. Reservations required: descansoorders.com. Reservation deadline: Dec. 13.
Jan. 12 - Apr. 3, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Farewell, Eden: Nature in a Post-Wild World
- The Stuart Haaga Gallery’s first exhibit of 2016, Farewell, Eden will present the works of contemporary artists
who are grappling in their work with
the changing nature of Nature in a
human-dominated world. The exhibition is curated and presented in
conjunction with Urbanature at Art
Center College of Designs’ Williamson Gallery in Pasadena. Both exhibitions will feature works of art by contemporary artists who are seeking to
divine and define the emerging new
relationships between nature and the
city, between nature and humankind.
The gallery is open Tuesdays through
Sundays; closed Mondays. Free with
admission.
Sat., Jan. 16, 10 a.m. - A New Look for
LA Walk - Cassy Aoyagi of FormLA
Landscaping, the design team behind
the Center Circle low-water garden,
will discuss LA’s unique outdoor water management. Even in drought,
Los Angeles can have slide and runoff
producing rainfall. This course will
cover water catchment and management strategies including permeable
paving, bioswales, rain gardens, infiltration and rain barrels. Aoyagi is the
founder of Form LA and president of
the Theodore Payne Foundation. Free
with admission.
Tue., Jan. 19, 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. - Art for
Tots: Dance - Invertigo Dance Theatre
returns to Descanso Gardens with an
engaging and interactive performance
for all ages. Part of Descanso’s “Third
Tuesday” programming, when admission to the Gardens is free all day.
Sat. - Sun., Jan. 30 - 31, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
- Camellia Tea Festival - Celebrate the
camellia, which brightens winter days
with its colorful blossoms and warms
the heart when brewed into tea! Activities free with admission unless noted.
Mondays, Feb. 1 - 29, 10 a.m. - Toddler
Treks - Explore and learn with your
toddler (age 2 to 4 years old). Classes
focus on caregiver and child interaction with nature, science, art and garden activities. $40 members; $48 nonmembers; $20 member siblings, $28
nonmember siblings. Preregistration
required.
Sat., Feb. 6, 9:30 a.m. - Water Symposium, Rain Harvesting in LA, with
Marilee Kuhlmann, Urban Water
Group - Learn techniques to harvest
rainwater, such as rain barrels, and
see if it can work in your home situation. The program will address determining how much rainwater to collect
and methods to “harvest” the water
after rains stop.
Sat., Feb. 6, 11 a.m., - Water Symposium, Four Seasons of Color with
California Natives, with Lili Singer,
Theodore Payne Foundation - A garden with native plants can be a seasonal showcase of flowers, seed, fruit
and foliage. This class illustrates the
wealth of trees, shrubs, vines, peren-
nials and grasses, all native and suited
to thrive in our climate, that can ensure garden color all yearlong.
Sat., Feb. 6, 12:30 p.m. - Water Symposium, Water-Wise Walk & Talk, with
Rachel Young, Descanso Gardens
Director of Horticulture and Garden
Operations - Join this guided walk
through Descanso Gardens and see
examples of water conservation practices out in the landscape.
Sat., Feb. 6, 2 p.m. - Water Symposium, Planning a California Native
Garden, with Lisa Novick, Theodore
Payne Foundation - This illustrated
talk takes the mystery out of planning
a garden and includes basic information about how native plants save
water, energy and wildlife, as well as
gardening do’s and don’ts. Learn the
basic steps of planning a garden, including how to make a site map.
Sat., Feb. 6, (time to be determined) The Los Angeles River Rover - Friends
of the Los Angeles River bring their
mobile classroom to Descanso. Designed to appeal to all ages, the Los
Angeles River Rover takes visitors
through a tour of the River’s past,
present and future. Guests learn about
the LA River watershed at our interactive watershed table, touch beaver
and coyote pelts, listen to the song of
the Least Bell’s Vireo, and design the
river as they want to see in the future.
Sat., Feb 6, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Water
utilities information table - Representatives from local water utilities will
be on hand to answer questions.
Sat., Feb. 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Native
plant information table - Theodore
Payne Foundation members will answer your questions about native
plants.
Sat., Feb. 6, (time to be determined)
Water tasting with Martin Riese Riese, the nation’s first water sommelier, offers water samples and insights
into how water has a significant impact on the way we taste food.
Saturdays, starting Feb. 13, 9 a.m. to
12 p.m. - Sketching on Location - Join
artist Virginia Hein and learn to sketch
the varied landscapes of Descanso using a variety of media. $90 members,
$120 nonmembers. Registration deadline:
Tue., Feb. 16, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Art for
Tots: Nature Collage - Enjoy garden
activities designed for young children
and their accompanying adults, including a collage art project and story
time. Part of Descanso’s “Third Tuesday” programming, when admission
to the Gardens is free all day.
Huntington Library and Gardens
1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino (626)
205-2100 huntington.org
Through Nov. 30 - Funny Business: Humor in British Drawings from Hogarth to
Rowlandson - Huntington Art Gallery,
Works on Paper Room, This exhibition features 13 humorous 18th-century British works on paper drawn from
the holdings of The Huntington’s art
collections. Using a variety of different themes and techniques artists such
as Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac
Cruikshank played an integral role in
creating a thriving market for British
drawing and defining British humor
during this period.
Through Jan. 4 - American Made: Selections from The Huntington’s Early American Art Collections - MaryLou and
George Boone Gallery, While a portion
of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of
American Art is closed for expansion
and reinstallation, 25 selections from
among the earliest works in the collection are spotlighted in a temporary
installation, focusing on masterworks
in various media that were made between 1700 and 1868.
Through Apr. 4 - A World of Strangers:
Crowds in American Art - Huntington
Art Gallery, Crowds are the temporary groups that strangers form at
baseball games, parades, riots, and
on city streets. Fickle and ephemeral,
crowds can be joyous, destructive, or
somber. As this focused loan exhibition of about 20 works shows, artists
have represented groups of people as
patterns of dots, murky silhouettes,
and teeming, river-like currents of
cars and machinery.
Through Mar. 21 - Y.C. Hong: Advocate for Chinese-American Inclusion
- Library, West Hall, Drawn from
The Huntington’s You Chung Hong
family papers, acquired in 2006, this
exhibition is the first opportunity for
the public to get a deeper sense of the
life of an extraordinary figure in Chinese-American history. See details of
exhibit on page 26.
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Tue., Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m. - Lecture, The
Early Chinese Garden: Warring States
through the Tang Dynasty - Michael
Nylan, professor of East Asian studies
at the University of California, Berkeley, examines the archaeological and
literary evidence of the emergence of
early garden culture in China, from
the 4th century B.C. through the Tang
Dynasty (618–907). It’s commonly believed that early gardens developed
from the imperial hunting grounds,
but the standard narrative is worth
querying, says Nylan. Free; no registration required. Rothenberg Hall.
Thu., Dec. 3, 9 a.m. - noon - Drawing
classes with Richard E. Scott - Intermediate Perspective, Subjects of greater complexity (two-point perspective)
are explored, as students apply the
lessons to the architecture of The Huntington.
Mon., Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. - Distinguished Fellow Lecture, Looking at
Lincoln - Shirley Samuels, professor
of English and American studies at
Cornell University and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, examines the relationship between pictures
of Abraham Lincoln and the language
that he used in famous speeches such
as the Gettysburg Address. Free; no
reservations required. Rothenberg
Hall
Tue., Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m. - Lecture, William Smith: The Man, His Map, and
the Democratization of Geology - In
1815, an impoverished and artless
British surveyor named William Smith
embarked on a single-handed quest to
map the geological strata of England
and Wales. Simon Winchester, author
of The Map That Changed the World:
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, tells his extraordinary
story. Free; no reservations required.
Rothenberg Hall
Thu., Dec. 10, 9 a.m. - noon - Drawing classes with Richard E. Scott - Advanced Perspective, Complex threepoint perspective and curved shapes
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drawn.
Fri. - Sat., Dec. 11–12, 8:30 a.m. – 5
p.m. - Conference, Portraiture as Interaction: The Spaces and Interfaces
of the British Portrait - Recent scholarship on portraiture has become increasingly interested in its status as
an interactive art form. Portraits often
depict or invite an interactive relationship between sitters and spectators. In
this conference, co-organized with the
Yale Center for British Art, speakers
will explore this topic in relationship
to British portraiture. Registration: [email protected] or
626-405-3432. Rothenberg Hall
Thu., Dec. 17, 9 a.m. - noon - Drawing
classes with Richard E. Scott - Finding
Your Own Voice, In the final session,
students learn how to interact with a
subject and uncover those elements
that have greatest personal meaning.
Dec. 26 – Jan. 3, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Viewing Stones Show - The California Aiseki Kai presents its 26th annual
show featuring more than 100 outstanding examples of suiseki and other viewing stones. Practiced in Asia
for centuries and gaining popularity
around the world, the art of viewing
stones invites contemplation of the
subtle, often fanciful forms that have
been shaped by nature, the elements,
and time. General admission. Brody
Botanical Center
los angeles CounTy arboreTum &
boTaniC garden
301 North Baldwin Ave., Arcadia (626)
821-3222 arboretum.org
Sat., Dec. 12, 8 - 10 a.m. - Family Bird
Walk - The walks are open to all ages
(children must be accompanied by an
adult) and all levels of birding knowledge. Bring your binoculars, comfortable walking shoes, and join our experienced birder and naturalist for a fun
morning of finding and watching our
fine-feathered friends.
LIBRARIES
Crowell publiC library
1890 Huntington Dr., San Marino. For
more information, call (626) 300-0777
or visit crowellpubliclibrary.org. All
programs are free to the public.
la Cañada FlinTridge library
4545 N. Oakwood Ave., La Cañada
Flintridge. For more information, call
(818) 790-3330 or visit colapublib.org/
libs/lacanada/index.php
monroVia publiC library
321 S. Myrtle Ave., Monrovia. For information, call (626) 256-8274 or email
cityofmonrovia.org/monrovia-publiclibrary. Free wifi hotspot. Open Mon-
Wed: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Thurs - Sat:
noon - 5 p.m.; Sun: Closed.
pasadena publiC library
Ten branches offer events for all ages.
For a complete listing of events and
branch addresses visit ci.pasadena.
ca.us/library/news_events/calendar.
For more information, call (626) 7444066.
souTH pasadena publiC library
1100 Oxley St. For more information,
call (626) 403-7358 or visit southpasadenaca.gov/library and click on Calendar and Events for upcoming free
events.
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CalTeCH
Beckman Auditorium 332 So. Michigan Ave. Pasadena -(626) 395-4652
events.caltech.edu
Wed., Dec. 2, 8 p.m. - Complex Quantum Cosmos: Science Puzzles and
Technology Solutions, Maria Spiropulu, professor of physics at Caltech,
will give this Earnest C. Watson lecture. Admission: free.
Sun., Dec. 6, 2 p.m. - Ice Worlds, The
screening of this high-definition film
will be immediately followed by a discussion led by Jennifer Walker, a graduate student in geological and planetary sciences at Caltech. This program
is part of Caltech’s Science Saturdays
series. Admission charge, unreserved
seating.
Sat., Dec. 12, 8 p.m. - Mark O’Connor:
An Appalachian Christmas - Grammy Award-winning violinist/fiddler
Mark O’Connor merges folk, country,
jazz and classical music to perform
holiday melodies from the Smoky
Mountains. Admission charge.
Sun., Jan. 10, 2 p.m. - Road Trips on
Mars: Rovers Explore the Red Planet, .
The screening of a high-definition film
about Mars will be immediately followed by a discussion led by Kirsten
Siebach, a graduate student in geological and planetary sciences at Caltech.
This program is part of Caltech’s
Science Sundays series. Admission:
$10.00 (unreserved seating).
Fri., Jan. 15, 7 p.m. - Toying with Science. Through juggling, balancing,
mime and original music, Garry Krinsky explores basic scientific concepts.
Admission: $25.00 (general admission); youth high school age and under: $10.00.
Sun., Jan. 17, 3:30 p.m. - Calder Quartet - This Coleman Chamber Music
Concert will include works by Ades,
Britten and Schubert. Admission:
$49.00, $41.00, $33.00, and $25.00;
youth: $20.00.
Wed., Jan. 20, 8 p.m. - Algorithmic
Magic: Behind the Scenes of Modern
Computer Science - Chris Umans, professor of computer science at Caltech,
will give this Earnest C. Watson lecture. Admission: free.
Sat., Jan. 30, 8 p.m. - Yamato - The
Drummers of Japan - This 12-person
troupe from Japan performs on traditional Wadaiko (taiko) drums. Admission: $45.00, $40.00 and $35.00; youth
high school age and under: $10.00.
Wed., Feb. 10 - 8 p.m. - Chasing Extrasolar Space Weather - Gregg Hallinan,
assistant professor of astronomy at
Caltech, will give an Earnest C. Watson Lecture. The is the Biedebach Memorial Lecture. Admission: free.
Sat., Feb. 20 - 8 p.m. - The Hot Sardines
present Speakeasy Night - an evening
of hot jazz from the 1920s, ’30s and
’40s with a tap dancer. Admission:
$45.00, $40.00, and $35.00; youth high
school age and under: $10.00; senior
rush tickets may be purchased 30 minutes before the performance for $25.00
(subject to availability).
Sun., Feb. 21 - 3:30 p.m. - Escher String
Quartet with Jason Vieaux on guitar This Coleman Chamber Music Concert will include works by Mendelssohn, Batok, Tarrega, Piazzolla and
Boccherini. Admission: $49.00, $41.00,
$33.00, $25.00.
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Sun., Dec. 6, 1-5 p.m., Holiday Tour of
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Award-winning filmmaker Ken
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documentaries about the history
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honored with countless awards,
including 14 Emmy® Awards, two
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in the 127th Rose Parade® presented by Honda, themed “Find Your
Adventure” on January 1, 2016.
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Los Angeles Zoo
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Sat., Feb. 13, 5 - 7 p.m. - Sex and the
City Zoo - Adults Only for an extraordinary Valentine’s Day event celebrating romance in the animal kingdom in
the Zoo’s Witherbee Auditorium. See
details of this event on page 50.
Nov. 27, - Jan. 3, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Reindeer Romp at L.A. Zoo - Holiday
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Nov. 27, - Jan. 3, 6 - 10 p.m. - L.A.
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Griffith Park. Breathtaking displays,
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ADVERTISER
PHONE
A Noise Within356-310052
McGrail Tutoring
(909) 702-4805 55
Abbey Graphics358-430022
Mehlmauer, Marilyn, M.D.
585-9474
47
Arroyo Vista Inn
Methodist Hospital Foundation
898-8888
Middleman, Meg • Century 21
441-3449
ADVERTISER
PHONE
(323) 478-7300
18
BeWaterwise.com403-731149
Beebe, Reda • Dilbeck Realtors
(323) 394-9008
63
Bennett, Cynthia & Associates799-970139
Bowtie Allergy Specialists460-603842
Castle Green793-035914
Charlie’s Coffee House
(323) 474-6753 42
Chesbro Tree Care799-455250
Dahl Architects, Inc.564-001148
Tutoring
To advertise your listing in this directory
call us at (626) 799-1161 or email
[email protected]
34
35
Mission Tile West799-459519
Morrow & Holman Plumbing, Inc.
799-3115
30
Nott & Associates
403-0844
3
Orchard Supply Hardware
403-8115
6
Phillips Draperies795-413146
Phillips Eye Center446-160021
683-7234
35
Del Frisco’s Grille765-991343
Primuth & Driskell, LLP Law Offices
Dynasty Salon441-212444
ReImagine Your Home799-365633
Elder Law • Linda E. Paquette
(800) 400-5353
61
Reaume, David • Construction & Design
215-7810
68
Family Chiropractic Center of So. Pasadena
441-4888
22
Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro
(818) 952-9200
41
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
(818) 790-0717
29
Fremont Centre Theatre441-597720
Halpin, Sarah • Markey & Associates
664-1598
15
Halstrom Academy(866) 590-9586
29
Hartman Baldwin • Design/Build
486-0510
Hurtado & Sokolow Group
(323) 333-2299
7
52
Rogers, Sarah • John Aaroe Group
390-0511
23
Roycroft Realty441-046150
Safeco/ Shaw, Moses, Mendenhall Insurance 799-7813
San Pascual Stables
66
(310) 883-4581
11
Scent of Lavender793-812138
Jade’s Fashions537-165841
Shen Yun 2016
(800) 880-0188
53
J & J Plumbing799-712138
Skein • Fine Yarn Store
577-2035
51
Jorjorian Rugs287-114651
SLS Consulting
(323) 254-1510
16
South Pasadena Review
799-1161
62
Sync Counseling Center
802-5490
24
Taylor, Judy • Interior Design
577-4457
31
The Huntington Store
405-2142
36
Knuth, Shirley • Castle & Home Realtors
233-5202 32
Kondo Wealth Advisors449-778345
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Kwon, Julia • Berkshire Hathaway
943-7303
27
L.A.S Construction
376-5028
55
396-3932
13
Lee, Janice • Berkshire Hathaway
943-7303
4, 27
Liang, Angela • Berkshire Hathaway
297-7779
37
Madison Partners
(310) 820-5959
44
Lasell, Diane • Sotheby’s
Majors, Carol • Coldwell Banker
399-9665
Marchain, Annette •Berkshire Hathaway 674-5486
2
26
The Rental Girl497-400054
The Maloney Group204-330025
Vana Watch & Jewelry
799-9919
Vlacich, Lin • Sotheby’s Realty
396-3975
Wilson, Mike • Real Estate Broker
818-5870
54
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