Programs, Next 40 Years
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CELEBRATING 40 YEARS LEADING SPONSORS Brooke Larsen Garlock & Edward Garlock MAJOR SPONSORS EDGEWOOD REALTY PARTNERS THE KUTZER COMPANY L A W O F F I C ES NEIL J. BARKER deasy/penner&partners A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION SUPPORTING SPONSORS PRINTING • MAILING • FULFILLMENT • GRAPHICS 980 Seco Street, Pasadena, CA 91103 Law Offices of Phone: 626.795.3333 Fax: 626.795.7548 KEARNEY | BAKER PLATINUM SPONSORS CLAIRE & BILL BOGAARD | JUDY GAIN | CATHY & LEW PHELPS | DIANNE PHILIBOSIAN & TOM SEIFERT KENTON & TESSA NELSON | MARGARET & JOHN WILLIAMS GOLD SPONSORS MIC HANSEN & LEN EVANS | TINA & JIM HART | STEVE MADISON | TRACY & KEN MCCORMICK | PENNY PLOTKIN JANET WHALEY & STEVE PRESTON | DONNA & JERRY SECUNDY | BETSEY TYLER SILVER SPONSORS KATIE HARP MCLANE VICKI & ROBERT BOND BRENDA & BILL GALLOWAY NORAH MORLEY & DR. ANTHONY KOERNER WENDY LEES & TOM BOYLE CHRISTINA & AVRAM GOLD SUSAN N. MOSSMAN BARBARA ZIMMERMANN & BILL CHRISTIAN SAMANTHA PIESTCH & BEN GREEN LOUISA & MARK NELSON CLAIRE & PATRICK DUNAVAN HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP MEI-LEE NEY MARCIA & WILLIAM W. ELLINGER III JEANNETTE & CAL HOLLIS MABELL & TONY PAINE GEORGIANNA ERSKINE CAROL SOUCEK KING PEGGY STEWART NANCY & DICK ESBENSHADE HARVY & ELLEN KNELL CYNTHIA S. VAIL & GREGORY P. STONE ELIZABETH M. SHORT & TERESA GRIMES & CHARLES LOVEMAN CYNTHIA & BRAD THIEL MICHAEL A. FRIEDMAN CHRISTY & STEPHEN MCAVOY JUDY & RANDY WILSON MEDIA SPONSORS 2 | PASADENA HERITAGE THANK YOU TO OUR CO-CHAIRS CLAIRE BOGAARD AND TOM SEIFERT TONIGHT’S MENU FIRST COURSE MIXED BABY GREEN SALAD TOPPED WITH DRIED CRANBERRIES, FETA CHEESE AND CANDIED PECANS, SERVED WITH A CHOICE OF BALSAMIC OR CHAMPAGNE VINAIGRETTE ENTREES PAN-SEARED CHICKEN BREAST WITH A CREAMY MARSALA SAUCE, ACCOMPANIED BY CELERY ROOT PUREE AND ROASTED VEGETABLES -OR- FLAT IRON STEAK WITH A CLASSIC BÉARNAISE SAUCE AND CRISPY ONIONS, ACCOMPANIED BY MASHED YUKON POTATOES AND ROASTED VEGETABLES -OR- GRILLED VEGETABLE STACK ON A BED OF QUINOA SERVED WITH A RED PEPPER COULI DESSERT RASPBERRY LEMON BIRTHDAY CAKE MUSIC PROVIDED BY ART DECO ENTERTAINMENT 40 YEARS COMMITTEE TERRI COLPO | BRIGID HARMON | JULIA LONG | LINDA MAZUR | KELLY MCINTURFF MARGARET MCVEY THOMAS | BRITTA PIOTROWSKI THANK YOU TO SILENT AUCTION DONORS A NOISE WITHIN MIC HANSEN THE RAYMOND RESTAURANT THE ARBORETUM THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ROSE BOWL STADIUM CASTLE GREEN ETHAN LIPSIG SMITH BROTHERS RESTAURANTS TINA LENERT & MICHAEL CAVENEY MARGARET THOMAS MCVEY – PARKWAY GRILL TERRI COLPO KENTON NELSON ANDY WILSON FIESTA PARADE FLOATS TAVO OLMOS JAMES ZELENAY SPECIAL THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THE EVENT POSSIBLE ART DECO ENTERTAINMENT LICHER PRINTING AND MAILING NICK LOPEZ, PSAV DOLPHIN EVENT RENTALS PASADENA CONVENTION CENTER TRICIA MOK, Catering Sales Manager HEY BUD! FLOWERS MIKE ROSS, CEO, Convention Center SOME CULTURE KELLY MC EVENTS OLIVIA BELLINGER, Event Manager CELEBRATING 40 YEARS | 3 CELEBRATING 40 YEARS IS PLEASED TO SUPPORT PASADENA HERITAGE’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY GALA CELEBRATION “Here’s to Another 40 Years!” PAYDEN.COM Congratulations to Pasadena Heritage for its 40 years of dedication and service to our community. Park & Velayos LLP 4 | PASADENA HERITAGE Proud Sponsors of Pasadena Heritage’s 40 YEARS CELEBRATION Congratulations to the organization for its many contributions to the City of Pasadena over the past four decades and best wishes for the next forty years! Gibson Dunn congratulates Pasadena Heritage on 40 years of historic preservation www.gibsondunn.com CELEBRATING 40 YEARS | 5 CELEBRATING 40 YEARS Pasadena Heritage is proud to celebrate 40 years of historic preservation in Pasadena! Since our founding in 1977, the organization has worked diligently to protect the city’s historic resources, save endangered buildings, assist owners with their projects and challenges, and strengthen city policy to foster preservation. nowing that Pasadena would not be the same place if There is so much to say and so little space here. We could not there had been no Pasadena Heritage for the past 40 have accomplished all we have without the dedicated leadership of Kyears, our success stories are worth celebrating. Among the the Board of Directors and all its members through the years, our greatest challenges were saving Old Pasadena from the wrecking outstanding volunteers numbering in the hundreds (and some of ball, protecting the Civic Center and seeing City Hall properly them here since the beginning), and a truly talented and committed strengthened and restored, speaking for the Colorado Street Bridge staff. We especially commend and salute the organization’s three and then the La Loma – now Van de Kamp – Bridge, keeping Executive Directors, Stephanie Reeser (1977-1980), Claire Bullock’s Pasadena visible from South Lake Avenue, protecting the Bogaard (1980-1994) and Sue Mossman (since 1994) for their Rose Bowl from virtual destruction as an NFL stadium, fighting to extraordinary leadership and significant contributions to Pasadena keep the Stuart Pharmaceutical Company building (once pictured Heritage and the cause of preservation. on the cover of Time magazine) standing, seeking a new use for the historic YWCA building, preventing insensitive development near the Thank you to all who are here to celebrate with us and to all Pasadena Playhouse, championing historic neighborhoods throughout who have so generously supported Pasadena Heritage during the city, and doing our best to defeat the extension of the SR 710 our first 40 years! Freeway through Pasadena’s oldest neighborhood – an issue very The highlights on the following pages are just that – a mere close to resolution as we come to the end of our 40th year. snapshot of one or two events or issues for each year of Pasadena In addition to these highly visible issues, there have been countless Heritage’s history. There is a far greater story to be told beyond others, and the pressure to preserve the best of Pasadena is never- these pages, and many more chapters waiting to be written. ending. Certainly, there have been disappointments, too. Among the worst were losing the original Huntington Hotel which we Pasadena Heritage’s mission has varied believed could have been rehabilitated, and finding no miracle to keep the Raymond Theater as a theater, though the building remains, little since 1977 and will continue to guide protected by our preservation easement. the organization’s work as we begin our The other dimension of our work, our educational programs, next 40 years . to identify, preserve began with a tour of the Prospect neighborhood and has continued and protect the historic, architectural and successfully since 1978. Scores of workshops, lectures, and architectural tours have opened the eyes and hearts of thousands cultural resources of the City of Pasadena who now better understand and appreciate the extraordinary through advocacy and education. architectural bounty our city holds within it. Most notable, our annual Craftsman Weekend has grown, prospered, and still attracts THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF thousands of attendees after 25 years. Also stretching beyond our city limits, Pasadena Heritage has co-hosted the statewide historic preservation conference with the California Preservation Foundation three times in 40 years, most recently this past year with record attendance. 6 | PASADENA HERITAGE Pasadena Heritage was founded by a group of concerned residents who saw Pasadena changing, historic buildings being sacrificed for aggressive redevelopment plans, and historic neighborhoods being threatened. Though the city had adopted its first historic preservation ordinance, written by Dr. Robert Winter and writer Miv Schaff, a public advocacy group was urgently needed. Pasadena Heritage became that group. Pasadena Heritage worked with neighbors to downzone 1980 Down-zoning neighborhoods to protect them single-family neighborhoods near downtown. We also joined in funding the first evaluation design guidelines to protect their history and of the Colorado Street Bridge, which was character. Today, the City has 30? Pasadena determined to be structurally sound. Landmark Districts and several National Register Historic Districts. The Main Post Office on 1983 Colorado Boulevard was Pasadena – taking the long view threatened when the Lincoln Avenue postal facility was proposed, and Pasadena Heritage Pasadena Heritage was founded, lobbied to save the historic building. 1977 and among the top reasons was the plan to demolish the entire original downtown, “Old Pasadena”, for high-rise headquarters buildings. Preservationists took up the cause to save Old Pasadena and Colorado Street Bridge in need of investment eventually succeeded in building a coalition that changed history by saving history! An endangered house, designed 1981 by architect Louis B. Easton on South Marengo Avenue, was purchased with our new Preservation Fund. As the house was being carefully rehabbed, the first Preservation Easement was crafted Gartz Court being moved to new site and applied to the property. We nominated the South Marengo Historic District to the One of Pasadena’s oldest National Register of Historic Places, and 1984 bungalow courts, Gartz Court, special zoning was adopted to allow specific was set to be demolished. Pasadena Heritage commercial uses in the District’s historic stepped in, partnered with the City, and buildings. moved the six-unit court to a new location. Old Pasadena threatened with demolition The charming court, designed by Myron Hunt, was restored and updated and sold as Our first National Register of affordable housing.