Posted on 01/15/2025 10:35:40 AM PST by Patriot777
Having been born Pasadena, California and the also lived in Sierra Madre before my dad moved us all to Texas in the early 70s, I have so very many memories of the wonderful weather, pretty landscapes and the beauty of the snow-topped San Gabriel Mountains, and Mount Wilson. Where, at the foothills, my dad, mom and we three kids lived and played and enjoyed the tremendous friendship and love of so many friends.
There were three things, maybe four that my beloved dad knew in those years before any of us kids were born and then labored tirelessly to accomplish, which were to get his civil engineering degree finished, to then obtain a job with the City of Sierra Madre (where he helped to address the hazards of wildfires, flooding, earthquake faults, and then helped build a float that would go on to win in The Tournament of Roses Parade). And of course city planning and construction.
Then there was the vile, filthy public school system that he despised with every fiber of his being. The indoctrination that had already begun in staunch Communism during his college years was in full swing and wickedness was spreading down to the kindergarten classes. He planned to move us all to Texas, where he was born and raised. And he did so, but not before he and mom lost their son, Kim, in a trail hiking accident on Mount Wilson. And then Sierra Madre was hit by a 6.7 temblor in the Sylmar Fault Quake.
My beloved parents are beholding The Face of Father God now, but my sister and I live on to remember all the happy and wonderful things about our very younger years in the San Gabriel Mountains area of CA. Not to leave out Long Beach, Huntington Beach, the Fisherman’s Wharf, Lake Casedas, Salton Sea, Hasting’s Ranch, and the much-savored Shakey’s Pizza.🍕
I grieve with all that have lost loved ones and pets and livelihoods and the roofs over their heads. None of this should have ever, ever happened. Yes, the Santa Anna winds, the wildfires, the drenching rains, the resulting mudslides and rockfalls have happened for a very long time. It’s a pattern not climate change GARBAGE.
But this brushclearing neglect, high line maintenance, power line structure, water distribution measures. Communist policies war against any common sense and produce nothing but stealing, killing and destroying. Pigs on thrones while whole cities burn to the ground. Surely they feel the pain of the masses. They do not.
Shakey’s pizza!
Yum!
Southern California was the best place to grow-up when I was a kid!
Did you eat at the North Woods Inn? When we were little we loved throwing our peanut shells on the floor. I live in Irvine now but still drive up for the cheese bread.
I always liked that story of Van Halen playing for a block party and 3,000 kids showed up.
Southern California was the best place to grow-up when I was a kid!
https://www.pdmusic.org/songs-about-fire/
In many ways, Southern California is the ideal place to live and we did so for fifteen years - the weather, the proximity of beaches, deserts, mountains, the entertainment opportunities as well as year-round outdoor activities (e.g. golf and tennis). But the political insanity, the state of the public schools, the traffic, the real estate roller coaster, the state taxes.... We left in 1996, and while our house there has probably tripled in value from when we sold it then, it was the right move.
Every year I enjoy watching the Rose Bowl though. It’s usually a beautiful New Year’s Day and the scene of the Rose Bowl up against the mountains... beautiful.
Lived in both Huntington Beach and Newport Beach for times in the 80s.
We sell fun at Shakey's
Also pizza!
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AMEN!!! I was born in 1941 and grew up in the era of street cars going down Colorado Blvd in Pasadena and driving through the Hastings Ranch area during Christmas...Christmas Tree Lane!!!
SO many of my dear friend and family have lost their homes in the past two weeks.
Memories have been burned, NEEDLESSLY... due to carelessness during the winds.
SHAME on NEWSOM, BASS and those in leadership who not only did NOT PREPARE but took our RESOURCES and ABUSED them on DEI, etc...
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Every year, hubby would go with our church and set up chairs. Our children grew up going to the parade line and sleeping all night. Our family home was five minutes from the Rose Parade starting line... in Eagle Rock.
We watched as the Stealth Bomber would fly over our home headed to the parade route.
Yes, believe I did. It was snowing that night and my family and I ate and tiny little me danced on the huge floor with family and friends. And my parents danced and we all loved it.
We kids could not Wait till mom and dad drove us to Hasting’s Ranch to look at all the homes with the Christmas lights in beautiful colors and patterns! A huge highlight to our family Christmas Celebration!
Loved the Crab Cooker in Newport Beach.
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING.
I grew up in Eagle Rock! In high school we’d walk across Suicide Bridge and hang out at the rose parade overnight and leave when the parade started. And we’d climb the hill before the 134 was built and make forts in the hills up Yosemite Drive. I could go on and on. It was sorta like growing up in Mayberry. My first apartment was off Lake in Pasadena and I guess parts of Lake burned.
I’m so thinking about a nice big yumminous pizza right now. There’s a place in a town nearby called Moe’s Pizza. 🍕 They have pizzas, spaghetti 🍝, gyros, lasagna, and more. Scheming to get my hubby interested…we are having bathtub plumbing work done today, issues cropped up with a fixture but looks the whole piping smash is going way. Which is good. New pipes, fixtures, no nearly getting scalded again.
We loved the snow on the roof! They redid the Boat(or whatever it’s really called - the cheaper place next door) and you don’t walk through the actual boat to order anymore.
We went to Hastings Ranch too. And did you know the Mexican restaurant called Mijares on Pasadena Ave? My friends family opened that decades ago and they still own it.
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