Railroads -- California -- Pasadena; Railroad tracks -- California -- Pasadena; Bicycles and bicycling -- California -- Pasadena; Transportation -- California -- Pasadena; Bicycle commuting -- California -- Pasadena; Bicycle trails -- California --...
View looking north from Raymond Hotel. Tracks in foreground are Santa Fe. Fair Oaks Ave. is on left side. Taken by Putnam for Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Pasadena City Hall (Pasadena, Calif. : 1903-1927); Automobiles -- California -- Pasadena ; City halls -- California -- Pasadena; Flags -- California -- Pasadena; Streets -- California -- Pasadena; Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Union Street...
Bicycles and bicycling -- California -- Pasadena; Transportation -- California -- Pasadena; Bicycle commuting -- California -- Pasadena; Bicycle trails -- California -- Pasadena; California Cycleway Company (Pasadena, Calif.); Dobbins, Horace; Fair...
Fair Oaks Ave. seen on right side of image, toll booth at bottom. Print mounted on gray card.
Bicycles and bicycling -- California -- Pasadena; Transportation -- California -- Pasadena; Bicycle commuting -- California -- Pasadena; Bicycle trails -- California -- Pasadena; California Cycleway Company (Pasadena, Calif.); Dobbins, Horace;...
Barney Williams Store (Pasadena, Calif.); Central business districts -- California -- Pasadena; Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Commercial buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Horse-drawn vehicles --...
Photograph of Barney Williams Store and Hall located on the North East corner of Colorado and Fair Oaks. It was built by Lawson T. Hollingsworth in 1882. Later, Romayne (Barney) Williams purchased the property and named it Barney Williams Store...
Church buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Landscape architecture -- California -- Pasadena; Streets -- California -- Pasadena; First African Methodist Episcopal Church (Pasadena, Calif. : 1892-1910)
The First AME Church, Pasadena, was founded in 1887. The first building, constructed from a barn which was moved to the property, was completed in 1892, and was located at 565 N. Fair Oaks Avenue at the corner of Fair Oaks and Chestnut Street. ...
Commercial buildings -- California -- Pasadena; African American women -- California -- Pasadena; Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Grocery trade -- California -- Pasadena; Clothing and dress -- California -- Pasadena; Streets -- California --...
Booker and Carrie McAdoo migrated to California from Arkansas in September 1899. Booker, who worked as a bath house attendant in a masseuse parlor in Arkansas, had contracted tuberculosis and his doctors recommended the move to California because...
Motion picture locations -- California -- Los Angeles Region; Motion picture industry -- California -- Pasadena; Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Union Street (Pasadena, Calif.); Streets -- California -- Pasadena; People -- California --...
"Filming a Western in Pasadena at the corner of Fair Oaks and Union, 1947. Photograph by J. Allen Hawkins; located in Pasadena Museum of History, Hawkins Collection (2690).
Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Streets -- California -- Pasadena; Storefronts -- California -- Pasadena; Commercial buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Signs and signboards -- California -- Pasadena;...
By the 1970's, Pasadena's historic Old Town (now Old Pasadena), centered at the intersection of Fair Oaks and Colorad, had long lost its grandeur. Changing urban development and shopping habits had first shifted retail east toward Lake Avenue then...
Los Angeles House (Pasadena, Calif.); Hotels -- California -- Pasadena; Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); People -- California -- Pasadena; Landscape architecture -- California -- Pasadena; Streets --...
Los Angeles House, J. B. Springer contractor. A three story frame building on the North West Corner of Colorado and Fair Oaks, across Fair Oaks from Barney William's Store. Built on 2 1/2 acres purchased from Mrs. Carr. Opened July, 1883. Later...
Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Streets -- California -- Pasadena; Signs and signboards -- California -- Pasadena; Commercial buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Storefronts -- California -- Pasadena;...
Taken on Colorado Street, this view looks toward Fair Oaks Avenue in 1887. Residents would come here for shopping, community gatherings, or entertainment. Despite Pasadena's relatively small population, this densely compacted commercial district...
Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Streets -- California -- Pasadena; Signs and signboards -- California -- Pasadena; Commercial buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Storefronts -- California -- Pasadena;...
This 1887 view, taken from Fair Oaks Avenue, looks east along Colorado Street. The road was lined with shops and restaurants, and parking could at times be an issue. In the 1880s, parking was still a matter of finding a place to leave one's horse...
Ward Brothers Block (Pasadena, Calif.); Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Streets -- California -- Pasadena; Signs and signboards -- California -- Pasadena; Commercial buildings -- California -- Pasadena;...
The Ward Block's hotel, located on the southwest corner of Colorado Street and Fair Oaks Avenue, originally opened as the Webster Hotel in 1884. It became the Grand Hotel after the property was purchased by Edwin Ward, who bought the building in...
Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Streets -- California -- Pasadena; Signs and signboards -- California -- Pasadena; Commercial buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Street lighting -- California --...
This photograph shows East Colorado Street sometime in the second decade of the 20th century. The street traffic, typical of the time, includes orange vendors, a New Method Laundry delivery cart, and the electric trolley cars from the Altadena and...
Hotels -- California -- Pasadena; Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Raymond Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Horse-drawn vehicles -- California -- Pasadena; People -- California -- Pasadena; Streets -- California -- Pasadena; Landscape architecture --...
Painter Hotel Washington Street north side between Fair Oaks and Raymond. Built by J. H. Painter on land that he owned.Opened Feb. 1888. Later 1902 renamed La Pintoresca Hotel. Destroyed by fire Dec. 41, 1912. City of Pasadena purchased the...
Street-railroads -- California -- Pasadena; Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Bank buildings -- California -- Pasadena; First National Bank (Pasadena, Calif.); Bicycles and bicycling -- California --...
Buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Carleton Hotel (Pasadena, Calif.); Central business districts -- California -- Pasadena; Construction workers -- California -- Pasadena; Hotels -- California -- Pasadena; Craig and Hubbard's Grocery (Pasadena,...
Photograph of the Exchange Block of Pasadena, located on the northwest corner of Colorado and Fair Oaks. In this area are the Carleton Hotel and the E. C. Webster & Company. Several offices located on the second floor of the Hotel were used as...
Central business districts -- California -- Pasadena; Colorado Boulevard (Pasadena, Calif.); Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Horse-drawn vehicles -- California -- Pasadena; Hotel Pasadena (Pasadena, Calif.); Hotels -- California -- Pasadena;...
This is a photograph of the Hotel Pasadena. A label (visible here) on the upper left corner of the photograph reads "HOTEL PASADENA 1885 / S/W corner of Colorado and Fair Oaks". Verso reads, in different handwriting: "1885 Hotel Pasadena", "Ward...
