If you recall back 50 years, when the purple and white building on Lake Ave just south of Amy’s restaurant was The Venetian, you might remember the miniature golf garden that was built on the property in the 1920s. The recreational… Read More »Altadena’s Miniature Golf Course
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
(These photographs of Switzer Camp in the San Gabriels are courtesy of a friend of Altadena Historical Society.) Founded in 1884, Switzer Camp was the idea of Perry Switzer who lived in Pasadena and made his living as a carpenter.… Read More »Switzer Camp
James McFadden, who founded Balboa Island and Newport Beach in the 1860s, built Villa Mara on the northwest corner of Altadena Drive and Holliston. The prairie-style estate was built in 1913 for $70,000. The McFadden family sold the property… Read More »Altadena’s James McFadden House
That mysterious building without windows on the northwest corner of Lake and Elizabeth (which is now in Pasadena) used to be the phone exchange sub-station for all phones in Altadena. According to an article in the Tuesday, April 1, 1937 edition… Read More »Telephone Use in Altadena Circa 1937