It’s taken 39 years, but finally, Altadena’s bicentennial quilt is permanently displayed at archives. Thanks in part to a huge discount from Aarnun Gallery and Framing in Pasadena, we ordered a professional UV protected plexibox for the quilt. Last week… Read More »Altadena Bicentennial Quilt on Permanent Display
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
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
Front page article in the December 20, 1930 issue of The Altadena Press Do You Know Altadena? Here are a Few Facts By Jay V. V. Green, Secretary, Altadena Chamber of Commerce 4800 telephones 35 grocery, meat market stores 1… Read More »Altadena Facts Circa 1930
Inscribed “Altadena Masons” The Masonic Lodge which today serves as a private school is located on the south side of Mendocino just east of Lake. We don’t know much about the building’s history in between the time it was built… Read More »Altadena’s Masonic Lodge