Race wars at Glendale High School

[kttam186290]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Yes, it was more affordable to live in So. CA than today. The Glendale/eagle Rock/Burbank and Pasadena areas were very much middle class with good schools and middle of the road home prices. None were ever really inexpensive but certainly affordable.

Pasadena wasn't that "middle class" unless you went out toward Hastings Ranch or Sierra Madre.

All throughout the 1980s and into part of the 1990s, Downtown Pasadena, as in Colorado Blvd, was filled with vagrants, drug addicts, liquor stores, pay day loan centers and pawn shops. It was nothing nearly as nice as it is now.

Altadena was terrible, and still gets a bad rap, although it is cleaning up quite a bit.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

Pasadena wasn't that "middle class" unless you went out toward Hastings Ranch or Sierra Madre.

All throughout the 1980s and into part of the 1990s, Downtown Pasadena, as in Colorado Blvd, was filled with vagrants, drug addicts, liquor stores, pay day loan centers and pawn shops. It was nothing nearly as nice as it is now.

Altadena was terrible, and still gets a bad rap, although it is cleaning up quite a bit.

you are going back 20 or so years, I am talking 50 year ago: There was, yes, Hasting ranch, which is where or family lived for awhile: Don't forget San Rafeal Hills on the Pasa/L.A. border and in the 50s to 70s Altadena was a great area. When forced busing became a reality so did white flight and people left Altadena. Hubby and I owned a home in Altadena: moved there in 1969 and out in 1972. We ended up in Arcadia.