Pasadena’s culture shifts with growing Latino majority – In just a few decades, a growing Latino majority has reshaped the home of Urban Cowboy
Tagged: book, California, family, Los Angeles, MEChaPosted on: March 25th, 2007“Historian C. David Pomeroy Jr. traces his Pasadena family back four generations to the founding of the rural community that became rough-neck, honky-tonk heaven.
Pomeroy, 66, and his family witnessed waves of change. The strawberry fields, courtesy of American Red Cross founder Clara Barton after the turn-of-the-century Galveston hurricane, are still commemorated in street names and festivals. World War II industrialism fueled Ship Channel refineries that still chug on. The Ku Klux Klan ensconced itself in a bookstore on Red Bluff and, much to the relief of city fathers, packed up in the early 1980s. Gilleys mechanical bull stopped bucking years ago.”
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