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The station was designed by architect H.C. Gilman and featured ceramic tile designed by Pasadena craftsman Ernest Batchelder. [6] Pasadena was a stop on the Santa Fe's Super Chief, Chief, El Capitan and other major intercity streamliners, and became a popular with wealthy Easterners who “wintered” in Pasadena, and elite Hollywood actors. [7]
A whistle stop or whistle-stop tour is a style of political campaigning where the politician makes a series of brief appearances or speeches at a number of small towns over a short period of time. Originally, whistle-stop appearances were made from the open platform of an observation car or a private railroad car .
The first of the great hotels to be established in Pasadena was the Raymond (1886) atop Bacon Hill, renamed Raymond Hill after construction. The original Mansard Victorian 200 room facility burned down on Easter morning of 1895 and was not rebuilt until 1903. It was razed during the Great Depression to make way for residential development.
The project was inspired by Segal's personal experience organizing a whistle-stop campaign tour for Republican U.S. Rep. Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, for whom he was serving as press secretary in 1984.
"Once upon a time, Pasadena had 20 bookstores, and now you can count them on one hand, And I think with the exception of Romans, which has been in business 125 years, we're the second longest ...
A whistle stop is a stopping point at which trains stop only on request. Whistle Stop or Whistle-Stop may also refer to: Whistle Stop, starring George Raft and Ava Gardner; Whistle Stop (Russian: Полустанок) a Soviet comedy directed by Boris Barnet; Whistle Stop, a 1961 jazz studio album by Kenny Dorham "Whistle Stop", a 1994 episode ...
The Los Angeles Terminal Railway, earlier known as the Pasadena Railway, and unofficially as the Altadena Railway, was a small terminal railroad line that was constructed between Altadena and Pasadena, California in the late 1880s. It was a byproduct of a land boom period and a victim of the land bust that occurred soon thereafter.
The Whistle Stop Bar and Grill located at 23 North Spring Street in Buckhannon. (WBOY image) 12 News spoke with the Whistle Stop’s marketing manager, Chantal Ward, on how it feels to honor her ...