The AHS cartography collection includes more than 50 maps that chart Altadena’s history, progress and dreams for the future. Map from about 1940 shows where New York Ave. cut across Eaton Canyon.(Current road route is indicated by red line.) Many are… Read More »AHS Map Collection
Before ALTADENA NOW and altadenblog, there was the… COX-O-TYPE Schwart-Seymore Flat Bed Web Newspaper Press The mammoth press was installed at Altadena Press, 750 E. Mariposa (today the building west of liquor store on south side of Mariposa), on Thursday, August… Read More »The Altadena Press
Just a reminder – Monday night’s Altadena Historical Society program (April 27, 2015) at the Altadena Community Center (7:30 p.m.) will feature 1940s Altadena, a story told by Richard Bale who lived here beginning in 1939. Don’t miss this… Read More »Eliot Students 1947
Calling all local history buffs! Here’s a chance to take a sentimental stroll down memory lane this coming Monday night, 7:30 p.m. at the Altadena Community Center, 730 E. Altadena Drive. You’ll see rare Images of Altadena in the 1940s… Read More »AHS Program – Altadena in the 1940s
Altadena Historical Society seeking $800 in donations to archive altadenablog and AltadenaPoint Gone but not to be forgotten,the altadenablog and AltadenaPoint will beavailable online at AHS For over seven and a half years, the altadenablog and its successor AltadenaPoint have documented… Read More »Altadenablog and AltadenaPoint to be Archived at Historical Society