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It’s no secret that Pasadena has a storied history of space age wonders, cinematic backdrops, and beautiful tree lined neighborhoods, but what about the quirkier aspects that often go unheeded in a city which turns 132 years old this weekend?
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“This cheap Canada Goose is indeed a city with a great sense of humor and ability to laugh, while at the same time the home of Caltech an institution that has given 40 Nobel laureates to the world,” says Pasadena Museum of History Archivist Anuja Navarre.
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Flurry of Flying Saucer Sightings in Oak Park
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Not surprisingly, it would turn out the residents mistakenly took a Caltech/JPL experimental helicopter for an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO).
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Lloyd’s of London, Which Claims to Insure Anything, Refused to Sell a Policy to the Tournament of Roses to Cover Bad Weather
Another quirky footnote in Pasadena history was when the world’s largest insurer, which took a chance on almost anything, did not take a chance on rain during the 1918 Rose Parade.
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However, for reasons that remain unknown, Lloyd’s backed out of providing services to their prominent canada goose uk outlet West Coast client, the Tournament of Roses Association, due to possibility of a wet forecast.
New Year’s Day 1918 proved to bring the largest spectator crowd in parade history 50,000 and beautiful 86 degree weather.
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Pasadena’s first known newspaper was published on Dec. 28, 1876, by the earliest settlers who aimed to provide a witty outlet sprinkled with humor during a time when residents were busy with arduous tasks of creating a viable agricultural community.
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Norton Simon Museum Site Was Once a Cultural Colony With Shrubs Planted by John Muir
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Dr. Jeanne Carr, a physician and career educator who had been a professor of agriculture, founded Carmelita Gardens and set the standard for refined Pasadena landscaping in that era, such as using hedges instead of fences and planting flowering shrubs and trees from all over the world.
Carmelita Gardens featured a cultural colony on the property where John Muir, as well as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Theodore Lukens, Helena Modjeska and other notables stayed for extended periods of time.
Some shrubs were planted by the Scottish born Muir himself, who was a former student of Carr’s at the University of Wisconsin from 1860 to 1863.
Without her mentorship, who knows whether he would have founded the Sierra Club or convinced the federal government to adopt a wildland goose outlet canada conservation policy? Their friendship lasted a lifetime.
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While it was dabbling with transmitting news over the airwaves, Pasadena Star News was also a self sufficient media publication, at the time equipped with a sextuple straight line Goss press that was 58 feet long, 11 canada goose sylvan vest uk feet high and weighed 142 tons.
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