January 24th, 2010 by alephnaught
Pasadena
Yesterday, we decided to take a trip out to Pasadena with our new puppy Iggy. As usual, we got a late start… 🙂
Our first stop was the Armory Center for the Arts, which was formerly an armory (seems like its very popular to turn armories into art galleries); the photo show was interesting: Jeff Reese – a memorial exhibition. I thought his early work was reminiscent of the photo secession (one of my favorite periods of photography) but I didn’t like his later abstract photography. The rest of the work being shown was ho-hum.
The front of the Armory Center for the Arts
There’s a very cool copy of an Italian tower at this end of town.
An Italian tower
The remaining fragment of the old Pasadena library, built in 1890, mostly destroyed in an earthquake in the 1930s
Our next stop was Distant Lands, a really wonderful travel shop and bookstore – I bought a book with stories from the New York City Subway, commemorating its centennial; Aviva bought a book on Puglia in Italy (of course).
You can see the mountains in the distance along with that Italian tower
We shopped around a little and then headed home to feed our little puppy (and ourselves).
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+Bob Hays
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