| South Pasadena Contributor(s): Thomas, Rick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738547484 ISBN-13: 9780738547480 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: South Pasadena is a small city among giants, sandwiched between the great metropolis of Los Angeles and its nationally famous namesake neighbor, Pasadena. Described as a modernday Mayberry and a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, South Pasadena thoroughly represents the very idea of Main Street America. The citys 40year fight against the I710 Freeway extension is legendary in suburban efforts to maintain cultural identity. South Pas, as residents know it, was named five times on the National Historic Registers top10 list of Most Endangered Places. The citys resistance to outside forces threatening to erode the rich heritage captured in these evocative images has made this little guy municipality a giant in the historicpreservation battle. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| Dewey: 978 |
| LCCN: 2007920160 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.54" W x 9.24" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Coast - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Southern California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: South Pasadena is a small city among giants, sandwiched between the great metropolis of Los Angeles and its nationally famous namesake neighbor, Pasadena. Described as a modernday Mayberry and a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, South Pasadena thoroughly represents the very idea of Main Street America. The city s 40year fight against the I710 Freeway extension is legendary in suburban efforts to maintain cultural identity. South Pas, as residents know it, was named five times on the National Historic Register s top10 list of Most Endangered Places. The city s resistance to outside forces threatening to erode the rich heritage captured in these evocative images has made this little guy municipality a giant in the historicpreservation battle." |
Contributor Bio(s): Thomas, Rick: - Author Rick Thomas is the former museum curator and vicechair of education for the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation. He served on the South Pasadena Natural Resources Commission, helping to maintain a strict policy protecting the city s great oldgrowth trees. Using touchstone photographs from his own collection one of the San Gabriel Valley s largest accumulations of historical images and artifacts as well as national, state, and local historical archives, Thomas provides a window to his city s past and an understanding of why its preservation is so important. |