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Altadena’s Weirdly Mysterious “Gravity Hill”
Amazon.com image Recently your humble blogger picked up a copy of the wondrously offbeat Weird California (left), a “travel guide to California’s local legends and best kept secrets.” Written by...
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Toxic Flora: Dayhiking Amid the Poison Oak
Poison oak in Altadena's Eaton Canyon. (Photos: M. Imlay) The upside to the February and March rains we get here in the Southland is that our dry chaparral suddenly springs to life, making hillside...
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An Out-of-This-World Moonsuit
NASA-JPL image. The year was 1960 when NASA development engineer Allyn B. “Hap” Hazard donned his stellar design creation to take a runway strut around Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)....
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William Mulholland: LA’s Gravity-Defying Water Super Genius
William Mulholland; Wikimedia Commons You have to hand it to William Mulholland. While he may forever be reviled as the man who sucked the Owens Valley dry, he did so through miraculous fetes of...
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