tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49267598683846041742024-03-04T22:16:19.112-08:00Glimpses of South Pasadenaa daily photo from Southern California's little town in the big cityLaurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comBlogger1644125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-35848437323814033282024-02-01T12:28:00.000-08:002024-02-01T14:35:04.131-08:00Welcome!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Laurie Allee<br />
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Thanks for stopping by my virtual South Pasadena front porch! In 2018 <i>Glimpses of South Pasadena </i>turned 10 years old, which was just the right time to take a break.*<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*I'll occasional pop in with a post or a photo if something really important is happening in South Pas! </span></div>Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-77841727838893086952019-07-03T19:15:00.000-07:002019-11-10T21:13:02.426-08:00Get Ready for the Fourth of July, South Pas Style!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Buckle up, vintage car afficionados, and take a sweet ride in the South Pas 4th of July Parade</span><br />
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<b>Popping back in with info on one of my favorite South Pasadena traditions!</b></div>
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From the 7:00AM Kiwanis Club Pancake Breakfast to the 9:00PM South Pasadena High School Fireworks Show, July 4th in South Pasadena is jam-packed with all-American, small town goodness. There are many great things about the day's events, but I'm partial to the parade. (It starts at 11:00AM downtown on Mission Street.) Take a look at my video above for a vintage car lover's dream array of sweet rides, all gussied-up-for-the-4th. <br />
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The only thing better than watching the parade is marching in it!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm stepping back onto my South Pas virtual front porch to talk about something that is important to me: raising the minimum wage in South Pasadena to $15 per hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I moved to Los Angeles in 1988, I was young, idealistic
and broke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucky for me, I had an
education and some basic office skills that allowed me to find temporary work
while I was trying to get my career off the ground – and eventually pay back
all of my student loans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ll never forget when I signed on with a local temp agency -- remember
this is in 1988 – and the agency representative told me that with my administrative
skills of typing 60 words per minute as well as my knowledge of Microsoft Word
and Excel, I would make $12 per hour on my assignments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I could do transcription, I’d earn $15 per
hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These numbers were for basic secretarial
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, rents in Pasadena
were about $750 a month for an average apartment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flash forward 30 years later, and those same apartments go
for an average of $2100 a month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t
even mention other costs of living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
all know that they, too, have risen dramatically in three decades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wages, however, have stagnated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That local temp agency will now
offer about the same as they did three decades ago:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an average of $12-15 per hour -- with a little more for transcription. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Temp agencies are a good place to judge
salaries in general because they represent what companies are willing to pay
their workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of these temp jobs lead
to permanent positions – at similar hourly rates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minimum wage is a large driver of most low to
middle wage salaries because as long as the minimum stays low, the next level
(that old 60 word per minute Microsoft word secretarial job, for example) stays low,
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can’t stand by and say that the Fight for Fifteen is a
pie-in-the-sky idea if we look at the reality of today’s cost of living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(That $15 I earned in 1988, for example, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is worth $32 today if we adjust for inflation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can promise you no temp job is offering
anyone $32 an hour to do Microsoft Word.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Minimum wage drives all wages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Multiple studies conclude that total annual incomes rise significantly
after a minimum wage increase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we have to ask ourselves in South Pasadena:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>why are we dragging our feet on something so
obvious?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are we pretending that
paying fair wages is unnecessary here – when just blocks away the cities of
Pasadena and Los Angeles think otherwise?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why do we in South Pasadena assume it’s just too much of a hassle?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">South Pasadena can afford $15 an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A living minimum wage is a hallmark of a functioning civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Pasadena must join the growing list of other
California cities who recognize $15 an hour is not an extravagance, but the
bare minimum we can fairly pay workers to do a job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A $15 minimum wage would begin to reverse decades
of growing pay inequality between the lowest-paid workers and the middle
class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are some national minimum
wage statistics from the <a href="https://www.epi.org/publication/why-america-needs-a-15-minimum-wage/" target="_blank">Economic Policy Institute</a>:</span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Failure to increase the minimum wage accounts 48%
of the increase in inequality between women at the middle and bottom of wage
distribution since 1979. </span></li>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The average worker who would benefit from a $15
minimum wage is a 35-year-old woman with some college coursework who works full
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Fewer than 10% of minimum wage earners are teens,
and more than half are adults between the ages of 25 and 54.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More than half are women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->44% have some college experience – many with
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We must join Los Angeles, Pasadena and other local cities in
recognizing that $15 an hour is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">necessary</i> for workers to be able to afford to live in our community and contribute
to our economy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to
attract workers to work in my city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>want them to be paid fairly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want them to spend money at our local
businesses – to shop on Mission and have dinner at <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/Gus%27s%20BBQ" target="_blank">Gus's</a> or <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/Bistro%20de%20la%20Gare" target="_blank">Bistro de la Gare</a> and then have enough to splurge on the Raymond
at <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/Fair%20Oaks%20Pharmacy%20and%20Soda%20Fountain" target="_blank">Fair Oaks Pharmacy</a> (and then maybe stop off at <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/Rite%20Aid" target="_blank">Rite Aid</a> for antacid...)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want my city to do the right thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you agree with me, join other South Pasadena residents at
tomorrow’s <a href="https://www.southpasadenaca.gov/government/city-council-meetings/2018-council-meetings" target="_blank">City Council Meeting</a> to let our city officials know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Pasadena can afford a $15 an hour
minimum wage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Learn more <a href="https://southpasadenareview.com/minimum-wage-hike-pushed-at-city-council-meeting/" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></div>
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Thanks for stopping by my virtual South Pasadena front porch! <i>Glimpses of South Pasadena </i>is now 10 years old, which is just the right time to take a break.<br />
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I have new projects coming online soon. Stay tuned!Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-29167474748969468122017-12-13T00:00:00.000-08:002019-03-16T13:10:01.488-07:00Make a Wish<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SP45-XE5bT1LWFlCOB4aPkrYpNbSgyaB23rcg6iit9_uQ1_Q84eJpVcugIDS92SlO4eE5sV_tK411FhDt-wT_LTY1ykmZVbXGu-RKCrBX8_ARiQG3n9OOhsUomJcp9H8FuzR10at7TU/s1600/san+marino+Christmas+lights+shooting+star.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689222348375068354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SP45-XE5bT1LWFlCOB4aPkrYpNbSgyaB23rcg6iit9_uQ1_Q84eJpVcugIDS92SlO4eE5sV_tK411FhDt-wT_LTY1ykmZVbXGu-RKCrBX8_ARiQG3n9OOhsUomJcp9H8FuzR10at7TU/s1600/san+marino+Christmas+lights+shooting+star.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Laurie Allee</span><br />
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I didn't notice the shooting star when I took this long-exposure shot on St. Albans Drive (aka: Christmas Tree Lane!) in <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/South%20Pasadena%27s%20Neighbors" target="_blank">neighboring</a> San Marino a few years ago. I guess it's just another Christmas miracle... <br />
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Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-86578961549130872692017-12-12T18:29:00.001-08:002019-03-16T13:10:30.586-07:00Sunset from Monterey Hills...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-83688057111801084292017-12-11T00:00:00.000-08:002019-03-16T13:10:53.723-07:00Ghostly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've always loved the way the <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/2008/07/eddie-park.html" target="_blank">Eddie Park</a> house looks at night in black and white...<br />
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<i><b>Want to leave a comment? Click the <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/p/community-forum.html" target="_blank">Community</a> tab at the top of the blog. </b></i>Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-54566348593743978542017-12-10T17:25:00.000-08:002019-03-16T13:11:45.772-07:00Hello Neighbor!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just hanging out in <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/Monterey%20Hills" target="_blank">Monterey Hills</a>...<br />
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Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-25747699950565950742017-12-08T17:32:00.003-08:002019-03-16T13:12:50.236-07:00Throwback to a Rainy Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Consider this my way of sending out good vibes for nature to help put out all the LA fires. (The one in <a href="http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2017/12/08/6-acre-brush-fire-doused-in-el-sereno/" target="_blank">El Sereno</a> today was awfully close.)</div>
Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-10555954451899621852017-12-07T16:15:00.000-08:002019-03-16T13:13:24.382-07:00Take That<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wouldn't mess with these two.Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-54521109084358775462017-12-06T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-06T00:00:17.359-08:00People Watching in South Pasadena<div style="text-align: center;">
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There are a lot of friendly faces in South Pasadena. Here are a few of my favorite ones...</div>
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Join me this week as I continue to highlight favorite images from <i>Glimpses of South Pasadena</i>'s (first) 10 years!</div>
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Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-89873342670990500152017-12-05T00:00:00.000-08:002019-03-16T13:14:10.187-07:00Feeling Groovy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's hard to pick favorites of all the South Pas folks I've shot in the last 10 years! This image, however, makes it into the top few.<br />
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I'm continuing this week with fave shots as <i>Glimpses of South Pasadena</i> approaches its 10th birthday. Join me!<br />
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<b><i>Want to say hi or leave a message? You can always click on the <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/p/community-forum.html" target="_blank">Community</a> tab at the top of the blog to start a conversation. </i></b>Laurie Alleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14460272282273523408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4926759868384604174.post-11295141168234524712017-12-04T00:00:00.000-08:002019-03-16T13:15:03.390-07:00Favorite South Pasadena Shots (6)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Glimpses of South Pasadena will turn 10 years old in 2018! Join me this week as I continue to celebrate some of the people and places that have inspired me over the years.<br />
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Here, I go back to 2011 and a display of pure joy on the face of one of my daughter's classmates.<br />
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You know me and <a href="https://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/old%20cars" target="_blank">old cars...</a><br />
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I have <a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/laurieallee/collections/311087-vintage-cars-classic-rides?asc=u" target="_blank">an entire section of my store dedicated to my vintage car shots</a>. There's even a calendar for 2018. Check it out!<br />
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<i>Nature's first green is gold,</i><br />
<i>Her hardest hue to hold.</i><br />
<i>Her early leaf's a flower;</i><br />
<i>But only so an hour.</i><br />
<i>Then leaf subsides to leaf.</i><br />
<i>So Eden sank to grief,</i><br />
<i>So dawn goes down to day.</i><br />
<i>Nothing gold can stay.</i><br />
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<i>--Robert Frost</i><br />
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Some of my favorite photos are not my best technical ones. Street photography is funny that way. Plus, it's too hard for me to be objective -- and photography is such a subjective art, anyway. What I can say is that this particular photograph is my favorite. It was taken way back in 2008 with an old FujiFilm point and shoot bridge camera. (I first posted it <a href="http://southpasadena.blogspot.com/2008/08/time-warp.html">here</a>.)<br />
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I'll never forget the odd but wonderful feeling I had when, while having coffee and ice cream with my family at <a href="http://southpasadena.blogspot.com/2008/07/busters-ice-cream-and-coffee-stop.html">Busters</a>, (remember Busters?!) I glanced at the large window and saw my darling little 3 year old Raine's reflection blending with the face of the beautiful, thoughtful young woman behind the glass. <br />
<a name='more'></a>It was like a time slippage, a peek at my little girl's future self, a reminder of how quickly things change and children grow up, a moment of transition so elegantly presented. I grabbed my camera and took a shot right as my daughter moved and the entire vision disappeared. I never expected the image to come out resembling anything close to the experience of the moment. Oh, the joy of happy accidents!<br />
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The image is even more special now, as I watch Raine grow into a young woman. Long-time readers remember her as Little Bit. She'll be a not-so-little 13 in May, and is every bit as beautiful and thoughtful as I imagined her almost ten years ago when I captured this rather magical moment.<br />
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So there you have it... my favorite of <i>Glimpses</i>, represented in two hopeful faces of our future generations.<br />
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In the early morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours they had also attacked the U.S. forces stationed in the Philippine Islands. Five days later, the<em> South Pasadena Review</em> reported that <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=9452936&PIpi=1160258">Lieut. Henry G. Lee</a> of South Pasadena was safe in Manila. Henry was a member of the 31st US Infantry Regiment, and had been posted to the Philippines in 1940.<br />
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At the time of the surprise attack, The United States was unprepared to defend the Philippines. Henry was captured when the Japanese overran the Bataan peninsula. In February of 1942, he wrote his family this letter from Bataan:<br />
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<em>I have seen some horrible things happen, and have had my share of narrow escapes, but I have also seen some very wonderful acts of courage, self-sacrifice, and loyalty. And I have found what I have searched for all my life—a cause and a job in which I can lose myself completely and to which I can give every ounce of my strength and my mind. And I have mentally and spiritually conquered my fear of death.<br /><br />My prayer each night is that God will send you, who are suffering so much more than I am, His strength and peace. During the first few days of war I also prayed for personal protection from physical harm, but now I see that is something for which I have no right to ask, and I pray now that I may be given strength to bear whatever I must bear, and do whatever I must do so that those men under me will have every reasonable chance.<br /><br />Life and my family have been very good to me and have given me everything I have ever really wanted, and should anything happen to me here it will not be like closing a book in the middle as it would have been had I been killed in the first days of the war. For in the last two months I have done a lifetime of living, and have been a part of one of the most unselfish cooperative efforts that has ever been made by any group of individuals... If the same selfless spirit were devoted to world betterment in time of peace, what a good world we would have.</em><em></em><br />
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Henry survived the Battle of Bataan. He held on through the horrors of the Bataan Death March. During his internment at the Cabanatuan prison camp, he recorded his experiences through a series of poems. He wrote them in a children's school book and later buried the book beneath a hut in the prison camp. On the first page, Henry wrote this preface:<br />
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<em>I make no pretense to being anything other than a layman, who, during an intense mental and physical experience, found verse the most effective means of recording his reactions—and incidentally, of ridding himself of some otherwise almost unbearable emotions. The best I can say of the majority of these poems is that they are as true as I could make them; the worst, that they are not written by a talented nor experienced poet.</em><em></em><br />
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Henry's quiet modesty was upstaged by the poignant music of his poetry. While he may have defined himself as a soldier, he revealed himself as an artist. In the dark days of war, Henry's verses reflected a true poet's inner light.<br />
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<em>Somewhere there lives a woman I suppose<br />Who once was you. All night I fought my brain,<br />All night with burning eyes that ached to close<br />I probed the whirling darkness while the rain<br />Played on the nipa with a rhythmic stamp,<br />And as forgotten memories seared my heart<br />The restless mutter of the prison camp<br />Mocked at the empty years we’ve been apart.<br />But now the hills that race the tropic dawn<br />Across a sky ablaze with pagan joy<br />Have touched me with their strength. Though you are gone<br />I guard one treasure nothing can destroy—<br />Across a spring green, a sunlit campus lawn<br />A golden girl laughs with her dark-haired boy.</em><br />
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A few months before the camp was liberated, Henry and 1617 other prisoners were sent to Bilibid Prison in Manila to work as slave laborers. After several months of hard labor, illness and near starvation, Henry and the others were placed on an unmarked Japanese ship. Thinking it was a legitimate target and unaware of the POWs on board, the U.S. attacked. Henry survived.<br />
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The prisoners were loaded onto another unmarked freighter called the Enoura Maru. Lieut. Henry G. Lee was killed when the U.S. sank this ship in Formosa on January 9, 1945.<br />
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In July, 1942, Stephen Vincent Benet included Henry's letter to his parents in a popular radio series called <em>Dear Adolf</em>. The letter was read for broadcast by actor <a href="http://southpasadena.blogspot.com/2010/08/william-holden-slept-here-well-sort-of.html">William Holden</a>, a private in the US Army and Henry's former classmate at South Pasadena High School. You can listen to the broadcast <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/DearAdolf">here</a>.<br />
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Although Henry's body was never brought home, his poetry book was eventually recovered. In 1948, Henry's parents Thomas and Mable G. Lee published his poems and letters in a book titled <em>Nothing But Praise</em>.<br />
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If Henry G. Lee's life had not been cut short by war, might he have gone on to become one of America's great literary voices? Perhaps he would have come back to South Pas, claimed his golden girl and, in his own words, worked with "the same selfless spirit devoted to world betterment in time of peace." We'll never know.<br />
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<em>I could not know the meaning nor the way,<br />I was not one with all that time must end,<br />Until one hopeless, joyless, bitter day<br />I looked at unmasked death and saw a friend.</em><br />
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<em>I do wander everywhere,<br />Swifter than the moon's sphere;<br />And I serve the fairy queen,<br />To dew her orbs upon the green.<br />The cowslips tall her pensioners be;<br />In their gold coats, spots you see;<br />Those be rubies, fairy favours,<br />In their freckles live our savours.<br />I must go seek some dew-drops here,<br />And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. </em><br />
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<em>--William Shakespeare</em><br />
<em>Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene i</em><br />
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This shot combines several things I love about shooting pictures in South Pasadena. First of all, it's <a href="http://southpasadena.blogspot.com/search/label/Kaldi">Kaldi</a>. The historical building originally served as early South Pasadena's bank building but now offers a prime, central spot for satisfying a coffee jones while taking in a great view of the <a href="http://southpasadena.patch.com/articles/art-architecture-and-activities-at-the-library">South Pasadena Public Library</a> and <a href="http://southpasadena.blogspot.com/2008/11/epic-tree.html">Morrow Bay Fig tree</a>. Second, it's one of those night shots that allows me to pretend I'm really a film noir cinematographer. Third, there's an old car. Even in this shot. See it?<br />
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I can't resist sharing another moody, magical November sky...<br />
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South Pasadena skies have been ridiculously dramatic lately! (I have another one <a href="https://glancingabout.blogspot.com/2017/11/even-more-painting-with-sky-in-los.html" target="_blank">here</a>, too.)<br />
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The autumn clouds have been great lately for some serious sky drama.<br />
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It's funny to think about the things that end up as traditions. I seriously doubt the Pilgrims put little marshmallows on top of their yams but a Thanksgiving table today hardly seems right without them, right? They flavor our memories, along with green bean casserole, pumpkin pie and the never ending argument about which is better -- cornbread dressing or breadcrumb stuffing. And at our house, no Thanksgiving would be complete without hand-shaped turkey cookies. <br />
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In fact, making and decorating sugar cookies spans all holidays around here...<br />
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It started when my daughter was 18 months old and a TV commercial for Pilsbury Christmas cookies caught her attention. She giggled, clapped and squealed at the display of multicolored treats ... then sobbed when the commercial ended. The next day we made a big batch of cookies with drippy globs of toddler-applied frosting. It was so much fun we made more cookies on New Years Eve, too. (Those candy sprinkles look a lot like confetti.) Valentine's Day sent us out to buy heart shaped cookie cutters. Easter? Of course, we had to have bunny cookies. There have been St. Patrick's Day clovers and Fourth of July flags and Halloween pumpkins. We even tried to make little worlds for Earth Day but they ended up looking more like paint splattered balls. Hey, the technique worked for Jackson Pollack! Maybe he decorated sugar cookies with his mom, too.<br />
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May you enjoy a Thanksgiving filled with traditions that comfort, amuse, enliven and inspire -- and by all means, feel free to add your own. Every year my daughter insists that in addition to the gaggle of turkey cookies we should make a peacock. (It's the one on the lower left of the picture.) You know, I'll bet when those Pilgrims started cooking that first Thanksgiving someone probably said, "Here's an idea ... let's put marshmallows on the yams!" <br />
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.<br />
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