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Throwback Thursday | New Home for the Holidays

The first folks to visit South Pasadena, stayed for the entire winter season!

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Rick Thomas
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PHOTO: Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenan.com News | Cozy sitting room at The Raymond, South Pasadena

After visiting South Pasadena during the winter season, guests of The Raymond often purchased land and built homes to plant family roots for a lifetime.

Pictorial: vacationers travel west to sunny South Pasadena (Winter, 1891)

PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Travel booklet for Raymonds Vacation Excursions 1895
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Traveling west by rail 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Map showing The Raymond and related railways 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | The Arroyo Seco crossing into South Pasadena 1891
PHOTO Pasadena Museum of History | SouthPasadenancom News | LA SGV R R crosses the Arroyo Seco 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | South Pasadena and The Raymond 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | The rails heading toward The Raymond 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | The Raymond South Pasadena 1891
PHOTO Pasadena Museum of History | SouthPasadenancom News | The Raymond South Pasadena 1891
PHOTO Pasadena Museum of History | SouthPasadenancom News | The Raymond lobby 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Tower Rooms at The Raymond
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Room key the sixth story Tower Room
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | The Raymonds sixth story Tower Room
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Tower Room view of Columbia Street 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Guests of The Raymond after picking oranges 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Veranda view of the San Gabriel Mountains 1891
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Guests of The Raymond hanging out on the veranda
PHOTO Pasadena Museum of History | SouthPasadenancom News | Guests heading out to ride in the Rose Parade
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Post card Busch Gardens local day trip
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | Photos Cawston Ostrich farm local day trip
PHOTO Rick Thomas Collection | SouthPasadenancom News | The Raymonds dining hall 1891
PHOTO: South Pasadena Public Library | SouthPasadenan.com News | The South Pasadenan – Many of the trees South Pasadena Streets have to day were planted by this effort.
PHOTO South Pasadena Public Library | SouthPasadenancom News | The South Pasadenan your 247 online source for regional news and entertainment

Happy Holidays from the staff of the South Pasadenan!

Throwback Thursday is written and produced by Rick Thomas

 

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Rick Thomas
Rick Thomas
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Author Rick Thomas is the former museum curator and vice-chair of education for the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation. He served on the South Pasadena Natural Resources Commission, helping to maintain a strict policy protecting the city’s great old-growth trees. Using touchstone photographs from his own collection—one of the San Gabriel Valley’s largest accumulations of historical images and artifacts—as well as national, state, and local historical archives, Thomas provides a window to his city’s past and an understanding of why its preservation is so important.
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