Friday, May 19, 2023 (continued)
After the Huntington, but before the Norton Simon Museum, we tried to visit the
Gamble House; however, the tours for the day were fully booked.
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Gamble House (1908, by Greene & Greene in
Arts & Crafts style) promised to have many
handcrafted details, fixtures and furniture (KSS) |
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The three front doors of the house built for
David & Mary Gamble (of Procter and Gamble in
Cincinnati, OH) as a winter residence (KSS) |
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We were allowed to walk around the house
that is located in Pasadena, CA |
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| Wow, look at this window! |
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| A lantern on the back patio |
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| A lily pond off the patio |
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| The front porch |
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| A second-floor porch off the bedrooms |
After the Norton Simon Museum, we headed north in Pasadena, CA.
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The Rose Bowl Stadium (1922, by Myron Hunt) and
statue (2017, by Brian Hanlon) of Jackie Robinson, who not
only was the first Black American to play in the modern
Major League Baseball, but was a local Pasadena athlete
who played football for his high school and Pasadena
Junior College, where he scored a Rose Bowl record
touchdown with a 104-yard kickoff return |
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The statue may have been inspired by
that record Rose Bowl touchdown;
the record still stands today |
After graduating from Pasadena Junior College, Robinson enrolled at UCLA, where he became the school's first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track.
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Nearby is a statue (2019, by Brain Hanlon)
of Brandi Chastain in her iconic pose after
winning the 1999 Women's World Cup in soccer |
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Colorado Street Bridge (1912-1913, closed after an
earthquake in 1989, renovated 1993) claims to have been
the highest concrete bridge in the world in 1913;
it carried Route 66 over Arroyo Seco from 1926-1940 |
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Fair Oaks Pharmacy (1915, by Arthur Benton) in
South Pasadena |
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Fair Oaks Pharmacy is still a pharmacy with an
old-fashioned soda fountain |
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We had great milkshakes, but
at new-fashioned prices! |
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After 1940, Route 66 followed the Arroyo Seco Parkway,
which was an early freeway with stop signs at the
entrances, and 15-mph exit ramps |
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Angels Flight Railway (1901) is a funicular billed as
the world's shortest railway, at Bunker Hill in Los Angeles |
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The intersection on Broadway with 7th Street in
Los Angeles was the original terminus of Route 66 |
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On 1/1/1936, the end of Route 66 was officially
extended to what is now the intersection of
Olympic Boulevard with Lincoln Boulevard |
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Mel's Diner (1958-1959, by Armet & Davis
in Googie style, as the Penguin Coffee Shop)
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View of Mel's Diner where the Googie style (futuristic
space-age type architecture) is more apparent |
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Mel's Diner wants to be sure you know this is the
official end of Route 66, where it met Highway Route 1 |
Apparently, the "unofficial" Will Rogers Highway ends at Santa Monica Boulevard at Ocean Avenue, marked in 1952.
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| Santa Monica Pier (1916) in Santa Monica, CA |
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The de facto end of Route 66 is on the Santa Monica Pier,
based on a sign that was erected in 2009 |
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Tamiko & Kent at the deluded-tourist
end of Route 66 |
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Pacific Park is an amusement park on a pier
that has been joined to Santa Monica Pier |
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| Los Angeles traffic on our way to Santa Clarita, CA |
Next: Maturango Museum of Indian Wells Valley.
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