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22 unusual facts about Pasadena


2006–07 NCAA football bowl games

The University of Southern California Trojans returned to the Rose Bowl Game presented by citi in the first BCS game of 2007 on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California.

2013–14 NCAA football bowl games

The games began on Saturday December 21, 2013 and, aside from the all-star games, ended with the 2014 BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena that was played on January 6, 2014.

Brookside Park

Brookside Park/Arroyo Terrace, Pasadena, California, a major neighborhood in Pasadena, California, United States

Bruce W. Carter

He received his early schooling at Queens Elementary School in Pasadena, Texas.

Cicindela trifasciata sigmoidea

The specimen shown in the picture was raised in captivity in Pasadena, California, an inland city.

Del Russel

Del Russel was born Del Gregory Russo on September 27, 1952 in Pasadena, California).

Earl Wild

His Grand Fantasy on Airs from Porgy and Bess, the first extended piano paraphrase on an American opera, was recorded in 1976 and had its concert premiere in Pasadena on December 17, 1977.

Francesco Tricomi

From 1943 to 1945 and from 1948 to 1951 at the California Institute of Technology of Pasadena, he collaborated on the manual of special functions for the Bateman manuscript project, together with Arthur Erdélyi, Wilhelm Magnus and Fritz Oberhettinger.

Gene Verge, Sr.

In 1934, he designed the 13.4-acre St Luke's Hospital, also known as the St. Luke Medical Center, located at 2632 East Washington Boulevard in Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena, California.

History of Pasadena, California

After returning home, Burnett plotted a town along two bayous, with its similar lush vegetation, naming it Pasadena, after the California city.

John Archambault

Originally from Pasadena, California, Archambault had his heart set on becoming a writer from the time he was a third grader.

John M. Perkins

1982, the Perkinses left Voice of Calvary Ministries to return to California, where they founded Harambee Christian Family Center in Northwest Pasadena.

Joseph W. Wolfskill and Louis Wolfskill

One subdivision became Chapman Woods, Pasadena, and Louis also owned Rancho San Francisquito, previously the property of his father-in-law, Henry Dalton.

K9s4COPs

Harris County Precinct 1, Harris County Sheriff's Office, the Pasadena Police Department in Pasadena, Texas, Missouri City Police Department in Missouri City, Texas, and Goodhue County Sheriff's Department in Red Wing, Minn., all received K9s trained for narcotics searches and patrol, while the Houston Metro Police Department's K9 is trained for explosives searches and patrol.

Lyn Collins

Shortly after returning from her European tour, Collins died aged 56 in Pasadena, California, of cardiac arrhythmia.

Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site

The Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site is an archaeological site near Pasadena in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Matt Busch

After getting an Associate Degree from Macomb College, Busch moved to Pasadena, California, where he attended the Los Angeles Art Academy, and received a Bachelor Degree from the Art Center College of Design.

New York, Westchester and Boston Railway

Their pantographs were removed and the cars were hauled by a steam locomotive to bring workers from the city of Houston to the shipyards in Pasadena to build liberty ships.

Nichols cap guns

In 1946 Talley W. and Lewis W. Nichols started a cap gun company in Pasadena, Texas, which eventually became one of the world's largest cap gun manufacturing companies.

Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew

Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew is a VH1 reality television show that documents people being treated for sexual addiction by Dr. Drew Pinsky and his staff at the Pasadena Recovery Center in Pasadena, California.

Sun Products

Sun Products, owned by Vestar Capital Partners, maintains manufacturing facilities in Baltimore, Maryland; Bowling Green, Kentucky; Pasadena, Texas; Dyersburg, Tennessee; and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Television Critics Association

They meet in Pasadena, CA twice a year, in January and July, in conferences known as Winter and Summer Press Tours.


1901 Stanford football team

Stanford was invited to represent the West in the Tournament East-West football game to be held in Tournament Park in Pasadena, California on New Year's Day, 1902, facing East representative Michigan, a team which had yet to yield a point all season.

1950 Rose Bowl

The 1950 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played between Ohio State University and University of California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

1958 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

The Hawkeyes finished the season with a 7-1-1 record, as in 1957, but this year they would travel to Pasadena to play the Pacific Coast Conference champion California in the Rose Bowl.

2012 Rose Bowl

The bands and cheerleaders from both schools participated in the early morning Rose Parade on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California along with the floats, featuring stars and giant helmets, from the two conferences.

Abbott Records

Robison placed Horton on Cliffie Stone's Hometown Jamboree program, based out of Pasadena, California, which aired on KXLA on radio and KCOP (later KLAC) on television.

Arroyo Seco Parkway

The latter was partially constructed and opened by Horace Dobbins, who incorporated the California Cycleway Company and bought a six-mile (10 km) right-of-way from downtown Pasadena to Avenue 54 in Highland Park, Los Angeles.

Though the common name used by the public had become "Arroyo Seco Freeway" over the years, it was officially a "Parkway" until November 16, 1954, when the California Highway Commission changed its name to the Pasadena Freeway.

Buz Kohan

As a television producer, he produced many television specials, including Bing Crosby's Christmas Show (1970), Perry Como's Winter Show (1971), The Arthur Godfrey Special (1972), The Keane Brothers Show, Gene Kelly: An American in Pasadena (1978), and Shirley MacLaine: Illusions (1982).

California Cycleway

The inventor and promotor of the cycleway was Pasadena resident Horace Dobbins, who attracted ex-California governor Henry Harrison Markham to join him in the venture.

Charles Frederick Holder

Charles Frederick Holder (1851–1915) was the inventor of big-game fishing and a founder of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses and the Tuna Club of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California.

Crankcase ventilation system

In 1952, Professor A. J. Haagen-Smit, of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, postulated that unburned hydrocarbons were a primary constituent of smog, and that gasoline powered automobiles were a major source of those hydrocarbons.

Creepy Creatures

It is a comic book that contains three stories; "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" adapted by Gabriel Hernandez, "The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight" adapted by Greg Ruth, and "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena" adapted by Scott Morse, all based on the Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine.

Crown City Studios

In 2012, in conjunction with Make Music Pasadena, Crown City Studios launched "Crown City Sessions", an ongoing live in-studio video series, which has featured, among others, The New Limb, Ozma, Robotanists, Torches, The Happy Hollows, The Lonely Wild, Mojo Stone, and The Well Pennies.

Dead Grandma

Filming locations included Art Center College of Design, Pasadena City College, Cafe 50's, Big Mama's Rib Shack and various locations in Pasadena and Studio City. The series was mentored by television and film director Jeremiah Chechick.

Dennis A. Dougherty

He currently lives in South Pasadena with his wife Dr. Ellen Dougherty, the superintendent of the Lawndale Elementary School District.

Des Griffin

Fourth Reich of the Rich, South Pasadena, CA, Emissary Publications, 1976; 1979; 1981; 1992; 1994 Revised from The Missing Dimension in World Affairs; Colton, OR, Emissary Publications, 1995 Revised edition, 1998 and 2000.

Drumchannel.com

DrumChannel partnered with LAMA College for Music Professionals to co-launch the annual Drummer's Reality Camp in Pasadena, California.

Elaine Scruggs

Elaine Scruggs (Non-Partisan), mayor of Glendale, Arizona, relocated from Pasadena, California with her husband Larry in 1971.

Eric Leach

He holds a degree in Fine Art Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Farhad Mann

He earned a Masters Film Degree with Distinction at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Gene Stack

Late in the year, Chicago White Sox manager Jimmy Dykes announced that the promising youngster had been invited to join the White Sox team in 1941 at their Pasadena, California spring training camp.

Geographic areas of Houston

Pasadena is Houston's most populous suburb and the former location of "Gilley's", the honky-tonk bar that inspired the hit 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, which was filmed in Pasadena.

George Rodney Willis

Projects on the boards during the time that Willis worked with Hunt and his partner Elmer Grey include:the Edith Daniels House, in Aradia, CA (1904), the Livingston Jenks House, San Rafael, CA (1904), the Astronomer's House (aka The Monastery) and other buildings, at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Mount Wilson, CA (1904), the Thomas H. Foote House, East Colorado Street, Pasadena, CA (1905), and the J.W. Gillespie House, in Montecito, CA.

George W. Housner

George W. Housner (December 9, 1910 (Saginaw, Michigan) - November 10, 2008 (Pasadena, California)) was an eminent authority on earthquake engineering and National Medal of Science laureate.

Giles Pellerin

A resident of the Pasadena area for his entire life, he attended his first USC football game while still a student at Huntington Park High School, going to the 1923 Rose Bowl Game in which USC defeated Penn State.

Grand View Vikings

Woodley has over 30 years of coaching experience and prior to Grand View, Woodley was head coach at Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena, Texas.

Harry O. Wood

He would serve as Wood's mentor who took his advice and went to work at the Bureau of Standards in Washington D. C. where a relationship was developed with George Ellery Hale, the director of Carnegie's Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena.

Hometown Jamboree

Hometown Jamboree was an American country music radio and television show simultaneously broadcast each Saturday night by KXLA radio, Pasadena, California and KLAC-TV/KCOP and KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, California beginning in 1949.

Katherine Tingley

After her death, her successors transferred the society, first to Covina, California and then later to Pasadena, California where it currently exists.

Kirk Demorest

After studying cinema at University of California, Santa Barbara, he transferred to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena where he studied film alongside the likes of Tarsem Singh, Michael Bay, and Roger Avary.

Morgantown High School

The Morgantown High School Red & Blue Marching Band performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in November 2009 and the 2013 Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California.

Pedestrian scramble

In Los Angeles County, pedestrian scrambles are used in the Rodeo Drive commercial area of Beverly Hills, at the intersection of Westwood and La Conte Avenues in the Westwood section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to the UCLA campus, and at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University of Southern California, as well as in Pasadena at the intersection of Raymond and Colorado.

Pierluigi Pairetto

Among the many prestigious games he officiated were the Euro 96 final between Germany and the Czech Republic at Wembley, and the classic USA 94 second-round clash between Romania and Argentina in Pasadena.

Prem Chand Pandey

In the 1980s he was also a research associate at the NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, where he worked on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite and SEASAT programs.

Richard Baskin

Baskin was born in Pasadena, California, to the Baskin-Robbins co-founder Burt Baskin and his wife Shirley Robbins (sister of co-founder Irv Robbins).

Rodney Blaze

"The Block Busters": Ad Visser, Band Zonder Banaan, Barrelhouse, Bert Heerink, Birgit, Boney M, Cesar Zuiderwijk, Equals, Fischer Z, George McCrae, Gibson Brothers, Gruppo Sportivo, Happy Tunes, Is Ook Schitterend, Mud, Pasadena’s, Peter Koelewijn, Rich Wyman, Shoes, Slade, Sweet, Three Degrees, Uriah Heep, VOF De Kunst, Zombies.

Rodney King

In May 2008, King checked into the Pasadena Recovery Center in Pasadena, California, where he filmed as a cast member of the second season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which premiered in October 2008.

Syd Lieberman

He interviewed the principal scientists and engineers involved in the project, and was present in 2004 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to witness the historic landing.

Texas Open Finswimming Invitational

The meet has been hosted by the Finswimming Association of Southeast Texas, Sam Rayburn High School aquatics team and Pasadena High School aquatics team

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

Part of this lore was that many an elderly man who died in Pasadena would leave his widow with a powerful car that she rarely, if ever drove, such as an old Buick Roadmaster, or a vintage 1950s Cadillac, Ford, Packard, Studebaker, DeSoto, or La Salle.

U.S. Route 6 in California

The northern segment of SR 11 continuing to Glenarm Street became SR 110, which continues briefly as the Harbor Freeway before becoming the Pasadena Freeway north of the Four Level Interchange with US 101.

Walter Meskell

He spent his childhood in Southern California and near Pasadena in the city of San Marino, California.

Wesco

Wesco Financial, a diversified financial corporation based in Pasadena, California

William Quan Judge

The organization originating from the faction of Olcott and Besant is based nowadays in India and known as the Theosophical Society - Adyar, while the organization managed by Judge is known nowadays simply as the Theosophical Society, but often with the specification, "international headquarters, Pasadena, California".

Wyn Cooper

Crow's producer Bill Bottrell discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in Cliff's Books, a Pasadena, California used bookstore.