Deep sorrow and condolences, Frank, for your and your family's and friends' losses.
My wife spent her childhood in Altadena, and (like most of the city) her former home on West Poppyfields Drive, her older relatives' former homes and her whole neighborhood are now just expanses of ash. It is (and was, and can again be) a lovely little city. May its residents find the strength and resources to rebuild it, and keep it safe from the land-sharks of gentrification! Courage and whatever occasions for joy there may be!
Altadena was also the home of the largest and most comprehensive archives of the Theosophical Society anywhere in North America, with manuscript materials going back to its earliest days in New York in 1875-76, before Blavatsky became its sole leading light. Alas, the entire Archive and Library (which was on Lake Avenue) went up in flames -- nothing is left of it.
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My wife spent her childhood in Altadena, and (like most of the city) her former home on West Poppyfields Drive, her older relatives' former homes and her whole neighborhood are now just expanses of ash. It is (and was, and can again be) a lovely little city. May its residents find the strength and resources to rebuild it, and keep it safe from the land-sharks of gentrification! Courage and whatever occasions for joy there may be!
Altadena was also the home of the largest and most comprehensive archives of the Theosophical Society anywhere in North America, with manuscript materials going back to its earliest days in New York in 1875-76, before Blavatsky became its sole leading light. Alas, the entire Archive and Library (which was on Lake Avenue) went up in flames -- nothing is left of it.