After the wind, a tidy Pasadena neighborhood pulls together
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 03:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Residents of Pasadena's Historic Highlands district remove debris from lawns and driveways and reduce an uprooted jacaranda to fireplace-size logs. 'Oh, you think we are just helping out the city by clearing the street?' one neighbor laughed. 'We're in it for the firewood.'The Historic Highlands district is prototypical of the Pasadena-Altadena aesthetic: turn-of-the-century Craftsman homes next to 1920s Spanish bungalows across from grand colonial-revival mansions, set amid a forest of mature oaks, eucalyptus and jacaranda trees.