A Hot Time Was Had By All Last week I did something I’ve always said I would never, ever do. I purposefully traveled to Dallas, Tex. in the hot-as-a-flippin’-furnace middle of July. Actually, I’ve always said I would also never, ever, ever go to Houston, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Albuquerque – or for that matter – […]
Warns of Dangerous Dog Thursday night (July 26) at about 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., three of our neighbors were out for a walk with their three dogs. Right outside my door on the corner of Henrietta and Ramsdell avenues, a Pit Bull, light brown and about 45 pounds, came out of nowhere and savagely […]
Sanitariums in CV – Rockhaven Sanitarium Part 2 I wrote last week about the brutal nature of the treatment of mental illness during the ’20s, particularly for women, and how one woman, Agnes Richards, thought she could do a better job. She believed that with humane, caring treatment, in a home-like setting, some minds would […]
A Dark Night for Dark Knight At three-something-o’clock in the morning last Friday my son and I were among the absurd crowd of sleep-deprived (depraved?) people at the Arclight Theater in Old Town Pasadena. We were there to see the premier of “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third and final installment of the Batman movie […]
Not so Wonder-Full Call me “Meathead” but CV’s own Archie Bunker – a.k.a. Jim Chase – is showing his true colors (mostly white) once again [My Thoughts Exactly, What a Wonder-full Summer, July 5]. I wonder … does Mr. Chase actually try to determine the validity or truth of some of the inflammatory diatribes he […]
Another New Game in the Bag Not that I’m turning this into a regular column about alternative sports, but in addition to my newfound interest in disc golf which I wrote about last week, I also find myself involved in yet another new (at least to me) game this summer. Here’s how it happened: I […]
Sanitariums in CV – Rockhaven Sanitarium Part 1 After hearing about Hillcrest Sanitarium, one might get the impression that all the sanitariums were somewhat nightmarish. Not so. Hillcrest had a bumpy career, starting as a high-end sanitarium and slowly declining as its age began to show. It had that brief interlude during the war as […]
Addresses Concerns about GWP Recently, there has been a great deal written about Glendale Water & Power (GWP) in the press. Much of it has been controversial – smart meters, leadership changes, a budget deficit, proposed rate increases, poor public outreach, the revenue transfer to the City’s general fund. In the absence of straightforward […]
My New Summer Fling Okay, so who knew there was an exciting, fun, challenging and stupidly inexpensive sport with tens-of-thousands of devotees being played every day of the week around the world, across the country and even at two venues right here in the Crescenta Valley? For my birthday last month, my youngest son took […]
Sanitariums in CV – Hillcrest Sanitarium Part 3 Continuing with my series on Hillcrest Sanitarium, once located at the top of Lowell Avenue, we conclude with its post WWII career. It had a pre-war run as a high-end sanitarium for lung disease and various other chronic ailments, and its wartime function was basically as a […]