{"id":19701,"date":"2020-03-02T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=19701"},"modified":"2020-03-02T07:52:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:52:34","slug":"orange-grove-blvd-pasadena-california-1912-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/03\/02\/orange-grove-blvd-pasadena-california-1912-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, California, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19702\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/03\/02\/orange-grove-blvd-pasadena-california-1912-2\/orange-grove-blvd-pasadena-california-1912\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-California-1912.jpg?fit=1024%2C731&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,731\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1465150512&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, California, 1912\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-California-1912.jpg?fit=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-California-1912.jpg?fit=640%2C457&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19702\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-California-1912.jpg?resize=640%2C457&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, California, 1912\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-California-1912.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-California-1912.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-California-1912.jpg?resize=768%2C548&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>When you see this 1912 photo of Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, you can see how turn-of-the-century Northerners fled here to escape the winters. Wide-open streets, shady trees, lawns, smooth sidewalks, regularly-spaced street lighting, no over-crowding, no tenements, no snow storms. Honestly, it\u2019s a wonder any of them went back.<\/h4>\n<h4>I don&#8217;t know where the 1912 photo was taken but here&#8217;s a shot from April 2019 showing us that Orange Grove Blvd is still wide and leafy.<\/h4>\n<h4><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/03\/02\/orange-grove-blvd-pasadena-california-1912-2\/orange-grove-blvd-pasadena-april-2019\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?fit=1334%2C876&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1334,876\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, April 2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?fit=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?fit=640%2C420&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?resize=640%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, April 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?w=1334&amp;ssl=1 1334w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?resize=1024%2C672&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?resize=768%2C504&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Orange-Grove-Blvd-Pasadena-April-2019.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see this 1912 photo of Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, you can see how turn-of-the-century Northerners fled here to escape the winters. Wide-open streets, shady trees, lawns, smooth sidewalks, regularly-spaced street lighting, no over-crowding, no tenements, no snow &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/03\/02\/orange-grove-blvd-pasadena-california-1912-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-19701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pasadena"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-57L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19704,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}