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Colorado Ave. Sept. 16 -- 1885, opening of L.A. & S.G.V. RR Pasadena

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Description: View down the wide dirt road of Colorado Street in Pasadena, California, filled with people and horse-drawn carriages on September 16, 1885, the day of a celebration for the opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad line between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena. Business line the right side of the street, empty lots in the foreground of the left. All are headed in one direction up the road. Visible signs on the buildings read "Carpenter Shop" and "Lumber Yard" and the Ward Block building is visible at left.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1885
Call number: photPF 557
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Fair Oaks Ave, looking south. Pasadena

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View from above of a business thoroughfare at Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. The right of the road is lined with one and two-story businesses, the left, empty lots. Horse-drawn carriages are scattered over the road. Buildings include signs for a blacksmith, a market, the Pasadena Carriage Works, and dry goods, notions, hats and caps.

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Colorado St

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View down a business thoroughfare lined with two and three-story buildings and storefronts on Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. People and horse-drawn carriages are scattered on the sidewalks and road. Visible signs on buildings including "Hubbard & Co. Groceries & Queensware,"F. D. Stevens Hardware," the Ward Block, a bank, and a job printing business.

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LA & San Gabriel Valley RR crossing Colorado St, Pasadena

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Train tracks of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad run horizontally in the foreground, with a few men scattered around them on Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. A horse-drawn cart on the left, and businesses, including a lumber yard and carpenter shop are on the right.

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Fair Oaks Ave

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View down a city street lined with two-story buildings, signs, and storefront businesses at Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. Horse-drawn carts and a streetcar share the road, men and women are scattered along the sidewalks. Visible signs on buildings include "Ward Block," a bank, and O'Neill & Johnson Real Estate Insurance.

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Colorado Street, looking east from Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, Cal

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Close view down a city streets lined with brick, two-story buildings. Storefronts, businesses, and signs occupy the ground floors of buildings. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages populate the street and sidewalks.

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Center of Colorado St. and Raymond Ave., Pasadena

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Street view in Pasadena. The building on the left houses the Pasadena Drug Company.

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Colorado Ave. Sept. 16 -- 1885, opening of L.A. & S.G.V. RR Pasadena

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