Eye Level Pasadena

Former Caltech mathematics professor John Todd died last week. His wife, Olga Taussky-Todd was the first woman professor at Caltech. Olga Taussky-Todd’s autobiography is available on the Caltech Archives website, and an oral history interview with John Todd is posted on the Center for Advanced Computing Research site.

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A friend and her son found a set of notes he had made about Pasadena history for a school project years ago and lent them to me. I’m blogging excerpts from them bit by bit with their permission. This post is the second in this series, which is not always in chronological order. To see [...]

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Pasadena Weekly: Leaving no child behind: The story of a group of local parents who fought all the way to the Supreme Court to change education forever

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A friend and her son found a set of notes he had made about Pasadena history for a school project years ago. They lent them to me, and I’m going to blog excerpts from them here, bit by bit, with their permission.

A group of friends from Indiana

The name comes from a Chippewa word
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More information:
Wikipedia: Indiana [...]

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34 South Raymond Street is now vacant, and a group of 300 former owners, employees and patrons of The Espresso Bar that used to occupy that space have come together to work to reopen it there. Check out their proposal (best
printed or saved and opened in a PDF reader–the first 11 pages are all about [...]

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Here’s an article about the desegregation of Pasadena’s public schools: “To Fight the Good Fight”: The Battle Over Control of the Pasadena City Schools, 1969-1979

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