Summer Medal Moments It’s official: I’ve gone into Olympics withdrawals. Granted, I’m probably not as depressed as the London cleanup crews or vendors stuck with shelves of historically unpopular official souveniers, but now that the 2012 Summer Olympics have come and gone, I’ll have to wait two whole years until the Winter Games in Sochi, […]
They did it! Those amazing engineers and scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory invented a robot that flew 352 million miles from Earth to land on a very precise little piece of land on Mars. After years of development and testing, the Mars Science Laboratory with its rover Curiosity landed on Mars. I have been […]
City Hopes to Continue GTV6 Broadcasting As you may have read, the court has sided with Charter Communications over the debate involving the use of a fiber optic network and the use of public, education and government television fees. Although [the Glendale City Council] respectfully disagrees with the court’s findings, I wanted to assure the […]
Sanitariums in CV – A Little More on Hillcrest Sanitarium Before I launch into Kimball Sanitarium, the most infamous of the local sanitariums, I’ll backtrack a little and add some new info about Hillcrest Sanitarium. As regular readers know, Hillcrest was located at the top of Lowell Avenue on a plateau overlooking the valley. It […]
Becoming a Podium Pundit If medals were awarded for watching Olympics coverage, I’d win gold. Guaranteed. I’m an Olympics junkie. People who know me know I’ve never followed professional basketball or football (although I do like to watch the Super Bowl every year strictly for the commercials), and most baseball games can put me out […]
Sanitariums in CV – Rockhaven Sanitarium Part 3 Last week I covered the physical aspects of Rockhaven Sanitarium – about its founder Agnes Richards, and its growth and development. But the history of Rockhaven would be incomplete without discussing the women that lived there in its decades of operation. Because it was upscale, it had […]
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 […]