Talk:Old Pasadena

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the pic doesn't really show Old Town. Can we find another?Kiwidude 07:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, we'll get some pictures if we have to take them Magi Media 06:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)Magi Media

I'd like to see the details of the Charter; and information on how the upscale businesses were convinced to come in. --Cheryljns 13:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, isn't this area the one that funded its improvements by charging for parking (something seen as a bad idea by most business districts)? Jason McHuff 08:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

The area defined as Old Town doesn't make sense, notably: "north on fair oaks to de lacey street" --Mijoru (talk) 07:05, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Re traffic intersection when it's all cars stopped, all pedestrians can cross.
A pedestrian scramble, also known as a 'X' Crossing (UK), diagonal crossing (US), scramble intersection (Canada), exclusive pedestrian phase, and more poetically Barnes Dance, is a pedestrian crossing system that stops all vehicular traffic and allows pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time. It was first used[citation needed] in Kansas City, Missouri and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in the late 1940s, and has since then been adopted in many other cities and countries. It was most recently adopted in Toronto in 2008 and in London's busy Oxford Circus in 2009.[1] The most famous implementation of this kind of intersection is in Shibuya, Tokyo.

For an all-pedestrian phase, sometimes referred to as a "barn dance" or "Barnes dance," the total pedestrian delay is of the same form as that for a single crossing: which shows that this pattern is clearly part of the federal traffic description.

76.91.75.116 (talk) 22:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Schoolhouse Block
The current version of the Schoolhouse Block section (as of March 14 2019) misreads the source it cites to describe where the Wilson School was moved. The source cited (Reid's "History of Pasadena") does not say that the school was moved "several feet east to a frontage on Raymond," it says that the schoolhouse was moved. They may have used the old schoolhouse in that location temporarily, but they eventually built a large new school facing Marengo, between Ramona and Walnut, just a few blocks north of Colorado Boulevard. The old school house, in its new location on Raymond was used as the City Hall, a church, a gymnasium, and then moved again in 1894 and used as a residence at Fair Oaks and Glendale streets, at least according to Reid's "History of Pasadena." The location of the newly built school is shown on image number 7 of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Pasadena of 1889, available on the Library of Congress online. At page 177 of Reid's "History of Pasadena," it says that the new building was first occupied in the Autumn of 1887. It was still in use in 1898 - I do not know when the newer new Wilson School was built four miles east, as asserted by the current version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Svaihingen (talk • contribs) 21:29, 14 March 2019 (UTC)