Arroyo Monthly August 2007

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AUGUST 2007

Cowboy Culture

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This updated vintage 1920's craftsman bungalow sits on an 11,940 square foot lot with a large separate guest house (2721 Community)and city approved plans for a second story addition. The main house has over 1,300 square feet & the guest house has approximate-ly 700 square feet. This charming 3 bedroom home offers an old-fashioned enclosed sun porch with original sliding windows and slatefloor, living room with brick fireplace, granite countertops, newer gas cook top, and dishwasher. The newer bathroom has vintage-stylesconces. Featuring wood windows throughout, central heat and a/c, water softener with filter, newer water heater, upgraded electri-cal, copper plumbing, and high-speed network ready. The detached extra large 2-car garage with workshop has laundry hook-ups, util-ity sink and plenty of storage. The rose garden has ample space for planting flowers or vegetables and along the side of the houseare a peach & lemon tree, plus an orange tree that yields juice all year long.

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Presiding over a shady corner in the prominent upper Alta Canyada section, amid beautiful homes and towering pines is this classicCalifornia ranch style home. This tranquil neighborhood is uniquely appealing with its curvy roads winding through lush landscapes ofverdant foliage and Deodar pines and is among La Canada's most idyllic and coveted locations. Offering over 2,700 square feet ofliving space, this immaculate 4 bedroom mid-century gem reflects the classic California lifestyle of indoor/outdoor poolside, patio liv-ing. The formal dining room, cozy den, living room and master bedroom, take full advantage of the sparkling pool view. Just outsidethe French doors, lies a covered patio with cozy outdoor brick fireplace, perfect for entertaining or moments of solitude. Featuringa completely newer kitchen and so much more, this alluring home is an ideal residence in an enchanting and relaxing setting.

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W

hen Lt. Colonel Custer’s attempt to vanquish the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes at the Battle of Little Big Horn was going fatally awry in 1876, Pasadena was a hamlet of fruit orchards, soon to become a gracious outpost of stately homes. But even as the city was becoming a winter resort for monied Easterners in the 1880s, traces of the Wild West lingered on. Horses and cows were known to suddenly bolt from their moorings and make a break for it through the city’s dusty streets.

The occasional bestial parade even included an ostrich. As local historian Kirk Myers notes in his book, “When Old Town Was Young,” six birds escaped from the Gardner ranch in North Pasadena on May 18, 1889. The Pasadena Daily Union noted that one of them, “more inquisitive or social than the others,” went for a stroll along East Colorado Street. “At an early hour, the ostrich walked with dignified step along our principal thoroughfare and seemed to enjoy the sights immensely,” the paper reported. The bird was eventually lassoed in the barnyard of Vore & Hoag’s Stable.

These days, ostriches on the loose may be no more real than a fever dream, but our Western roots still invite a backward glance. After all, cowboy culture is still with us—even if its staunchest followers may be more likely to make their living working at Universal Studios than roping dogies.

In this issue, Carl Kozlowski introduces you to the surprising detours taken by singing-cowboy-turned-entrepreneur Gene Autry, whom the Autry National Center is celebrating with a major exhibition marking the centennial of his birth. Jenine Baines explores the roots of Hollywood’s skewed depictions of Native Americans in her story about the Huntington Library’s show “Legacy and Legend: Images of Indians from Four Centuries.” And Mandalit del Barco explains why four Southern California guys would rather don 10-gallon hats and croon tunes about lonesome prairie dogs than attend any headbanger’s ball.

In the following pages, we return to the youth of our country and of ourselves, when cowboys and Indians rode the range.

—Irene Lacher

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14 CULTURE “American Icon”: The Autry National Center finally pays tribute to its founder, Gene Autry. — By Carl Kozlowski

18 ART “Setting the Record Straight”: The Huntington’s new exhibition—“Legacy and Legend: Images of Indians from Four Centuries”—chronicles the “sincere but skewed” stories artists have told about Native Americans. — By Jenine Baines

34 NONPROFIT “On Top of the World”: The Heart of Horsemanship seeks to curry the bond between people and horses. — By Irene Lacher

38 MUSIC “A Cowboy Quartet”: The Tumbling Tumbleweeds are home off the range. — By Mandalit del Barco

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40 STYLE Cowgirl chic goes south of the border.

42 THE LIST Pasadena landscapes at the Pasadena Museum of History, “Paradise Lost” at Boston Court and more

44 TABLE TALK Barn Burner BBQ in Pasadena 46 FITNESS Riding stables around Pasadena 48 REAL ESTATE It still packs a punch for investors.

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Stuart and Rebecca Bowie at the premiere.

From left: April Evans and Philip and Colleen Goodrich after the performance.

From left: Abby and Mark Lew, Norma Williams and Jill Westbrook-Roberts at the alfresco fete.

This has been a banner summer for the Pasadenabased Los Angeles Children’s Chorus. From July 12 to 15, the fledgling vocalists shared the stage with opera stars Suzanna Guzman, Lynette Tapia and Malcolm MacKenzie for the world premiere of “Keeper of the Night,” a new opera by composer Peter Ash and librettist Donald Sturrock. The half-million-dollar production at the Alex Theatre was commissioned by the LACC, conducted by Grant Gershon and directed by Corey Madden.

On June 24, a “Midsummer Night’s Garden Party” at Occidental College’s Collins House Garden raised $55,000 for the chorus’s artistic, educational and scholarship programs. Some 150 guests attended the alfresco fete cochaired by Antoinette Adams, Mary Blodgett, Eileen Stueck Leech, and Jennifer Harris Sliskovich. Soprano Lauren Libaw performed for the crowd as did a crop of chorus members led by LACC Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson. Revelers grazed on passed hors d’oeuvres, carved turkey and beef and desserts.

From left: Catherine Leech, Thor Blough, Lillian Mecum, Malcolm MacKenzie and Lauren Libaw in “Keepers of the Night.”

From left: Dr. Shawn Libaw, Lauren Libaw, Justin Libaw and Dr. Jo Bufalino Libaw at the garden party.

Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson and LACC supporter Helen Bing surrounded by friends at the premiere.

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POPS Music Director Rachael Worby and Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard share a moment backstage.

The newly renovated Pasadena City Hall is illuminated for the Pasadena POPS concert.

Events celebrating the reopening of Pasadena City Hall reached a crescendo on July 15 with Music Under the Stars, a free Pasadena POPS concert on the steps of the newly renovated building. Before the event, about 80 people attended a reception at the Westin Pasadena Hotel, recognizing sponsors Bank of America, Kaiser Permanente, Target, California Institute of Technology, Parsons and the City of Pasadena. Later, actress Tracy Scoggins and Mayor Bill Bogaard addressed the crowd. Under the baton of POPS music director Rachael Worby, the orchestra performed works by John Williams, Aaron Copland and Beethoven with Broadway vocalist Valarie Pettiford and members of the Occidental Chorale.

From left: Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, Ismael Yambot and Alex Fritz. Yambot and Fritz, students at St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, sing an a capella duet of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

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Wreck ‘n’ Sow entertained the crowd.

More than 3,000 people celebrated the Colorado Street Bridge and Pasadena Heritage’s 30th anniversary on July 14 during the group’s annual summer fundraiser on the historic structure. The evening event featured live music on three stages by groups that included Snotty Scotty & the Hankies and the Superstitions. Grown-ups surveyed a display of antique and classic cars and bikes, while Glendolf the Magician, Sidewalk Astronomers and others entertained the kids. Restaurants that purveyed their wares from booths on the bridge included Central Park, Baja Churros and Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ & Grill.

A Model T and a Triumph were among the classic cars on display.

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American Icon The Autry National Center finally pays tribute to its founder, Gene Autry.

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI

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hink of an American mogul these days, and

Donald Trump would likely come to mind: a billionaire who made his fortune in the corporate sector. Before Trump’s rise to prominence in the 1980s, an entirely different kind of man might have fit the bill, but even now he’s not considered one of the usual suspects: Gene Autry.

Remembered primarily as the singing cowboy star of countless Western movies, Autry actually conquered several diverse fields. He’s the only person with five different stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honoring his achievements in radio, recording, motion pictures, television and live performance. He also founded both Los Angeles TV station KTLA, channel 5, and Anaheim’s California Angels baseball team.

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But his most intriguing legacy may be the Autry National Center, a museum dedicated to the history of the American West. Yet even though the center opened its doors nearly 20 years ago as the Museum of Western Heritage, only now is it celebrating its muse with the current show: “Gene Autry and the Twentieth-Century West,” which runs through Jan.13, 2008.

The delay was due to the man himself. When Autry founded the museum with the fortune he amassed from the sale of KTLA, he decreed that the new institution focus on Western history and culture, not his life; he didn’t want the venture to be viewed as a vanity project. Now that his concern is clearly moot, museum officials felt free to honor the centennial of his birth. Still, Autry’s multifaceted career posed a challenge for exhibition organizers.

“We looked at literally thousands of objects and images,” says Michael Duchemin, senior curator for the Autry. “I wanted to look at old radio shows, sound recordings, movies and TV shows. Just as we read a book or document from the past, electronic media give us a chance to look back at the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s with new eyes. Usually, you’d have to pay a ton for rights access, but we [already] had access [because many of the items are in the museum’s collection], so we built the exhibit around his actual work.

And the baseball and museum aspects are another story most people don’t know much about.”

Duchemin has devoted the past 2.5 years to supervising the five-year-long project. The work has resulted in spectacular visuals around virtually every corner. One case holds an assortment of colorful cowboy shirts and boots designed —Continued on page 16 by famous Western designer Nudie.

Autry harnessed his immense popularity to campaign for President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. /Autry National Center ARROYO ~ AUGUST 2007 ~ 15

AMERICAN ICON —Continued from page 14

Autry parlayed his understanding of the entertainment world into ownership of Anaheim’s California Angels baseball team. /Autry National Center Another section displays an amusing assortment of Autry-inspired toys, including a 1950 bicycle with a horse head mounted on the front and fringe down its central frame.

Historic photos trace Autry’s three-year stint in the Army Air Corps during World War II as well as his volunteer campaign promoting President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. His tenure as owner of the Angels is documented in an extensive collection of pictures and memorabilia. Together, the displays paint a portrait of a 20th-century Renaissance man.

“Maybe the least-known thing about Autry was his relationship to sports and the history of sports,” Duchemin says. “In the late ’30s, he understood the significance of rodeo as a sport, because in 1941, rodeo was the third most popular sport, attendance-wise, behind football and baseball. He became the biggest producer of rodeos and used them as a backdrop for his Western musical-variety shows—which combined a Western musical with Wild West show arts like whip cracking and knife throwing—throughout the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s.”

Later, the rodeo industry’s self-imposed limitations prompted Autry to evolve into a television and baseball entrepreneur. When the rodeo industry refused to sign TV contracts in the ’50s, due to its fear that the new medium would whittle down gate revenues, Autry scouted out other opportunities. According to Duchemin, he understood the common denominator between the rodeo and sports—both are popular entertainment—so he was able to master his new venture as well.

Autry’s common touch helped create an audience of both ardent and fledgling fans that continues to grow.

“I read the visitor comments every day to gauge where people are coming from,” Duchemin says. “Longtime fans—older people who saw him in concert or in movies—are glad to see him get his due. Young people respond to his business acumen, and they’re amazed that one guy did so much stuff. We designed the show with an intergenerational audience in mind: the grandparents who remembered Gene, parents who want a great family outing for both the grandparents and their own kids and kids learning about him for the first time.” AM

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visit to a new exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens makes it instantly clear to anyone who has ever

watched a Western just how one-dimensional and inaccurate it probably was, with its cast of war-happy chiefs, tomahawk-brandishing braves and squaws who hung about dutifully on the sidelines.

The exhibition – “Legacy and Legend: Images of Indians from Four Centuries,” which runs until Sept. 2 – features the works of artists who’ve spin-doctored and spread this limited perception of Indians since the founding of the Jamestown Settlement exactly 400 years ago. Better yet, it also sets the story straight.

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The first thing to keep in mind is not to be too hard on Hollywood. The myth-making began long before John Wayne and MGM were on the scene.

“Hollywood turned to the art of previous centuries to research how to portray Indians,” says guest curator Kathryn Hight. “These images have had a powerful effect on how we perceive Native American culture to this day.”

As “Legacy and Legend” reveals, many of the movie industry’s depictions were based on the works of 16thand 17th-century European artists – many of whom painted their Native American subjects sight unseen.

Invariably, while the artists meant well – Hight describes their portrayals as “sincere but skewed” – they romanticized their subjects. Indians were depicted as Romanstyle pagans ripe for conversion to Christianity in a new Eden. Others might have borne a striking resemblance to a 16th-century Italian sculpture. Sometimes, the Indians portrayed weren’t even Indians, but European models.

At the same time, artists were well aware that their works provided their fellow Europeans with their first glimpse of an exciting – and highly marketable – New World. Thus, in a marketing ploy any 21st-century capitalist would applaud, artists highlighted the most dramatic, sensational aspects of Indian culture.

Edward Curtis, “Bow River-Blackfoot,” ca. 1926, photogravure./Huntington Library “They focused on Native American men as exotic and grand, living freely in nature, unconstrained by government or religion,” Hight says.

In other words, Indians were depicted as a fantastic but fascinating new species that engaged in bizarre rituals, bedecked themselves in odd bits of clothing (or none) accessorized with flamboyant headdresses and jewelry and engaged in dangerous occupations like buffalo hunting and warmongering. That Indian men were far more likely to be farmers and hunters than warriors was largely ignored.

But at least men were portrayed. Although many tribes were matrilineal, with inheritance and descent passing through the female line, renderings of Indian women are few and far between. One very famous exception was Pocahontas.

“You have to struggle to find the story,” says Hight.

Thanks to “Legacy and Legend,” that task is now a little less onerous. An entire section of the gallery is titled “Pocahontas, Matoaka, Lady Rebecca Rolfe”– the names given the legendary

Algonquin maiden who saved Captain John Smith of Jamestown. Sticklers for accuracy shouldn’t miss the engraving by Simon van de Passe in 1616, showing Lady Rebecca in full Elizabethan garb, shortly before her death in England at the age of 21. It’s the only contemporary picture in existence.

But accuracy is in short supply when it comes to subsequent depictions of Pocahontas – a nickname meaning “playful, frolicsome child” – whose tale has been rewritten by generations of storytellers, from Jamestown settlers to Disney producers. For instance, it is far more likely that the man she fell in love with as Matoaka, the daughter of the Powhatan chief, was farmer John Rolfe, not Captain John Smith.

After all, it wasn’t John Smith whom Matoaka married, had a child with and accompanied to England as Lady Rebecca Rolfe. Nor was the good captain’s tale of Pocahontas’ rescuing him from certain death ever corroborated by eyewitnesses.

Certainly Pocahontas couldn’t have done so; she’d been dead eight years by the time Smith first published the story.

Why isn’t this tale told today? One possibility, Hight theorizes, is that it’s politically incorrect: John Rolfe discovered the crop that ultimately saved Jamestown economically – Big Tobacco.

By the 19th and early 20th centuries, the artists’ interpretations had evolved along with their craft. As shown by the illustrations, lithographs, aquatints and photographs in the last three sections of the exhibit – “Grand Indian Portfolios,” “Indians in Popular Culture after the Civil War” and “Bridge to Motion Pictures: Photographs” – Indians were no longer an exotic curiosity but an endangered species.

As the 19th-century American painter George Catlin wrote: “ [Artists] must fly to…the rescue of their looks and modes [so that] phoenix like they may rise from the stain on a painter’s palette and live again upon the canvas, and stand forth centuries yet to come, the living monuments of a noble race.”

This goal, while laudable, had a downside: Too often, illustrations – reproduced far less expensively for a broader —Continued on page 20 ARROYO ~ AUGUST 2007 ~ 19

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

George Catlin, “Indian Hunting Buffalo,” 1844, hand-colored lithographic print from Catlin’s “North American Indian Portfolio.”/Huntington Library —Continued from page 19

audience – stereotyped, in B-movie fashion, those they were meant to extol. In the portrayals, all Indians, regardless of their tribe, wore feathered war bonnets, galloped breakneck across the plains on horses, lived in teepees and never left home without their trusty tomahawk.

More accurate are the photographs of Edward S. Curtis and Pasadena resident Karl Moon. Renowned for their beautiful technique, both artists shared Catlin’s desire to record Native American culture before it vanished completely. Curtis, who produced the 20-volume series “The North American Indian” in the early 20th century, featured chiefs in feathered headdresses, aging patriarchs, women managing their households – at last, women get their due! – and war parties of past eras.

His contemporary Moon also staged highly romantic scenes from the past.

Unlike Curtis, however, Moon sold his work directly to tourists from his shop overlooking the Grand Canyon and, in later years, from his studio in Pasadena.

“Their interpretations are the link between still images and motion pictures,” says Hight, who says that she was introduced to Moon’s work while compiling the exhibit.

Henry Huntington admired the work of both photographers. He purchased a complete set of Curtis’s “The North American Indian” for the then-staggering sum of $4,000 as well as a complete set of 293 large photographs by Moon. Today the Huntington has the most extensive collection of Moon’s photographs in existence.

Except for a few artifacts from the Autry National Center, the other objects in “Legacy and Legend” were also culled from the Huntington’s collection. Alan Jutzi, Avery chief curator of rare books, helped Hight sift through much of the library’s vast resources.

“Out of this valuable material, a complex story emerges,” Hight says, “a story that has Indians as farmers, traders and fathers; a story that actually includes women. The warrior of the plains, while an actual image, is only one small part of the story of a great people.” AM “Legacy and Legend” is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from noon to 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Admission: $15 adults, $12 seniors; $10 students (ages 12-18) $6 youth (ages 511), free for children under 5. Call (626) 405-2100 or visit www.huntington.org.

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On ofTop the World

The Heart of Horsemanship seeks to curry the bond between people and horses.

BY IRENE LACHER

T

o say that Gigi Ridgeway is a born horsewoman doesn’t quite do justice to her close affinity with the imposing beasts. Ridgeway was jumping before she was even born, with an assist from her equestrienne mother. Four months’ pregnant, Elizabeth DeVries Ridgeway took Gigi along for the ride when she jumped over a pole 6 feet 4 inches in the air.

“It wasn’t the most sane thing to do, but the little mare flew over it,” Elizabeth says now. “That was Gigi’s first introduction to the jumping world.”

The women still operate as one when it comes to their love for horses; they banded together with veterinarian Paula Powers a year ago to form the Heart of Horsemanship, a Glendale-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting humane treatment and the rescue and rehabilitation of abandoned and abused animals. Their next step will be helping older horses return the favor for humans, particularly little ones. Gigi plans to give riding lessons to children without regard for their ability to pay.

“Gigi saw, when we were immersed in the horse world, how empathy and understanding seemed to be diminishing as fame and glory and money took precedence,” Elizabeth says. “Rather than seeing kids learn to have a good time with the human-horse interchange being developed, it was shifting into a competitive experience. The horse became a vehicle for success rather than a vehicle for developing a deeper personal relationship.”

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close relationship at her mother’s feet when she was growing up in Canada. Elizabeth, 64, learned to compete under the wing of Hungarian cavalry officers in her native Ontario. Elizabeth would curry compassion among her riding students by asking them to close their eyes while they rode their horse and tell her what the horse was feeling. Gigi, naturally, was her best student.

“It would help them awaken to the horse’s nature in that moment because we can’t empathize without understanding the state someone else is in,” Elizabeth says. “Plus, I would have the child go in the stall and groom the horse and ask, ‘Is he skittish? Is he eating his food?’ All these things they need to be tuned in on, and that helps the child develop empathy.”

Even then, the Ridgeways would take in abandoned horses and rehabilitate them. Today, two strapping bay geldings who were rescued from the slaughterhouse live in the stables behind Elizabeth’s Glendale home near Griffith Park. Parsifal arrived a year ago from the stable of another horse lover who houses abandoned animals but can’t give them all individual attention. A descendent of a racehorse named Dancer, Parsifal had disappointed his previous owner who expected him to do well at the track.

By the time he arrived in Glendale, he was healthier, but he still cowered in the presence of people.

“It wasn’t in his heart, that ‘I’ve got to be first’ attitude,” says Gigi, explaining his reluctance to run. “When I got him, he was miserable and standing back in his stall. He was angry because he’d never been shown love or attention.“ For the past year, she’s been showering him

with affection, taking him on trail rides into the hills and administering Reiki therapy, a Japanese technique for stress reduction achieved through the laying on of hands. Now, she says, he’s back in championship form. “He’s an amazing horse,” she says, who’s ready for a new home.

The Ridgeways hope to open their first equestrian center this fall on 14 acres near Fallbrook they’re negotiating to buy. Meanwhile, they’re seeking donations of older ponies who are ready to retire and gently ferry children at the center.

Gigi’s teaching style involves meshing horsemanship with “magic”: She adorns horses with ribbons and flowers, tells adventurous fairy tales as she leads their riders up the hillside trails and sends the children on crystal hunts in the woods.

“Horses conjure up romance, rescuing the princess and slaying the dragon,” she says. “Kids are more in touch with that than adults. My intention is to get kids away from the computer and get them living stories rather than punching them into a keyboard.”

Ordinarily, those sorts of experiences are mostly reserved for children from well-off families. But Gigi hopes to spread the wealth.

“I’d like to make riding accessible to kids in the inner cities and foster homes and children who have been growing up in single-parent families and feel abandoned and disempowered by life circumstances,” she says. “There’s something about being around horses and riding them that helps you gain confidence. Having this big animal underneath you makes you feel literally on top of the world.” AM

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It’s Kid’s Stuff Kidspace board President Phelps Wood is helping the museum grow up.

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hen Phelps Wood first encountered Kidspace Children’s Museum 25 years ago, he was a garden-variety dad happy to find a place for his two younger children to play and learn. At the time, Kidspace was occupying the gym of an abandoned school west of Lake Avenue, where it attracted busloads of children who tumbled on the grassy playground and had their curiosity piqued by museum instructors.

“It wasn’t just a hands-on children’s museum,” Wood says. “There was a program behind each exhibit that made it exciting for kids.”

Since then, Kidspace has mushroomed partly due to the efforts of Wood, who has served on the board of the organization virtually since he discovered the place. And now, as its recently installed board president, the grandfather of three will help lead Kidspace through its next phase of expansion.

Wood scouted Kidspace’s current location, formerly Pasadena’s Fanny Morrison Horticultural Center, which housed a gardening society in the ’30s and had long ago fallen into disrepair.

Kidspace moved there more than three years ago, expanding across the facility’s 2.2-acre grounds and into three of its buildings. The buildings underwent $20 million in renovations and now feature exhibits on such phenomena as earthquakes, a display designed in partnership with the California Institute of Technology. A fourth build-

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ing awaits an overhaul and a new purpose, which may include expanding Kidspace’s activities to include programs for teenagers.

In addition to giving the complex room to spread out, Wood thought the new location would offer children the opportunity to see plantings typical of mid-century California, which had remained on the site.

“Where do kids see the growing of plants and vegetables today?” Wood muses. “Do they know they’re grown in dirt? We have a program on dirt and how important it is. Kids are excited by that and by coming back and seeing something that grew.

“Most of the plantings in our yard are natural California flora. Here you are, looking up to the foothills of the Sierra Madres.

It gives us a chance to say to kids, ‘Here’s what grows here down off the mountains, and there are mountains in the distance you can use for free for the rest of your life.’”

Meanwhile, Wood, who manufactures testing equipment in Arcadia, helps tend the hearth of fundraising, so that Kidspace can continue to include disadvantaged children among the 270,000 expected to visit this year.

“I have [the desire] to see kids from less wealthy areas come through,”

he says. “Our ticket price is $8, but the cost is $14 per kid, so we have to raise $6 for every child that goes through there, and we do that through special programs and fundraisers.”

So when parents are occasionally stymied by their endlessly curious brood, Kidspace is there to pick up the slack.

“Kids have questions maybe you haven’t thought of, and they want an answer,” Wood says. “‘Why’ is their constant question. We have people at Kidspace who can give them the answer that gives them a whole different sense of how things work.” AM 36 ~ AUGUST 2007 ~ ARROYO

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A Cowboy Quartet The Tumbling Tumbleweeds March to Their Own Drum

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nstage, they wear matching red plaid cowboy shirts, white kerchiefs, 10-gallon hats and suede cowboy boots—unsullied from any bona fide work on the range. None of them has ever actually rustled up cattle or even spotted a lonesome prairie dog. But at a watering hole in Altadena called the Coffee Gallery Backstage, the four men of the Tumbling Tumbleweeds sing about prairie life.

"Riding the range together / My saddle pals and I,” they croon in an old ditty by Leonard Flye, also known as Roy Rogers. “We ride, ride, ride through the saddle / O'er the barren plain / All day we round up the doggies / Headin' for the big corral / We'll always be together/ Til we ride down that last long trail."

During their two-hour gig, the Tumbling Tumbleweeds perform tunes from 1930s and '40s Western flicks, originally sung by silver-screen cowboys like Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. Accompanied by a sole acoustic guitar, they sing in four-part harmony, at times stopping to whistle, howl like coyotes and dance a few jigs.

Their wholesome sight gags are worthy of a Disneyland frontier floor show.

"We consider it our obligation to corn-feed our audiences," quips baritone Robert Wolfskill, the quartet's founder and director. "We like our show to be as family friendly as possible."

The 45-year-old administrator for Childrens Hospital grew up in Los Angeles watching old cowboy movies. And to this day, he collects Roy Rogers movies at his home in Sierra Madre. Wolfskill has roots in the Southwest, as the great, great grandson of a French Canadian who fought with the U.S. Cavalry in the Indian Wars before settling in New Mexico with a Chiricahua Apache wife.

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"This music transports you to another world," Wolfskill says. “All the pioneers and the immigrants that came out West… It was just that promise of hope that the West seemed to hold for people, that dream that just seems to continue on."

Wolfskill's own dream was to form a vocal group like the Sons of the Pioneers and name it after one of their most popular songs. A few years ago, he assembled his posse of singing pals. He met "Big Daddy" baritone Cade Parenti, 29, when they performed together in a local musical theater production of "Damn Yankees,” and he discovered fellow thespian and tenor Chris Acuff, 31, on the stage of "Fiddler on the Roof."

“Chris could never resist doing a little hoedown jig [during one of the dance numbers],” Wolfskill says.

Finally, he plucked R.J. Mills, 22, from a Starbucks in Monrovia where he played guitar.

Unlike Wolfskill, the younger Tumbleweeds didn’t know much about Western movie music, but they soon learned that their family histories have Western ties as well: Long Beach native Parenti has kin from the Black Hills of South Dakota, where his great uncle owns a cattle ranch; Acuff settled here from West Tennessee ("I have family that rode with Jessie James," he says, "shooting up and robbing banks"); and Mills is Tex Mex, the son of a South Texas mother and Mexican father.

"We might not be cowboys on the outside, but when we do this music, the cowboy inside of us just comes out," says the baby-faced Mills, who earns a living running the “Backdraft” attraction at Universal Studios.

Acuff, who lives in Hollywood and works as a

branch manager for Wells Fargo bank, says they learn the songs by listening to old recordings and watching Disney movies. Then they make up their own harmonies. All four note, however, that they sing Western music, not country.

“We don’t cry in our beers,” explains Parenti.

Instead, their songs are about dogies (orphaned calves), deserts, cacti, sunsets and camaraderie on the frontier.

But they were chagrined to discover that some of the songs were disrespectful to Native Americans and Mexicans. “We’ve had to change the lyrics in order to fit today’s perception of political correctness,” says Parenti. “We’ve really had to curb some of these cowboy songs.”

For some numbers, the Tumbling Tumbleweeds replaced the term “Redskin” with “Injun,” which Acuff admits is “still kind of on the fringe.” They eliminated a derogatory word for a Chinese person from the song “Hold That Critter Down,” and they took out an entire verse of “Pecos Bill” about smoking cigarettes.

Wolfskill says they hope to evoke “that time of wholesome goodness when things were a little bit slower and simpler.”

In other words, a more idealized, romanticized version of the cowboy. The old Hollywood version.

So while they don’t get to saddle up much in car-crazed L.A., the Tumbling Tumbleweeds do join in the Western Music Association’s jamboree every month at the Autry National Center.

Parenti, who sells freight-container space on ships to Hawaii, admits it might seem unusual for citified guys his age to be so enamored of a musical genre he acknowledges is dying out. That’s exactly why, he says, “we’re here to bring a little bit of it back.” AM

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Now here’s a border issue you can wrap your head around-or at least your belt. The cantina look—where rugged Western fashion meets its Mexican girly-girl counterpart—is riding high in cowgirl-style circles these days. Going cantina chic can mean pairing sturdy jeans and cowboy boots with a fringed leather bolero jacket. Or try a rust-colored prairie skirt—better yet, a tiered mini—with a tooled Mexican loop gun holster—sans the gun, of course.

It’s the latest twist on an American fashion staple that’s as indestructible as animal prints and Vuitton bags. Nothing comes between Hollywood and its cowboy boots, which are favorites of Kate Hudson and Sandra Bullock. Neo-cowgirls Mary J. Blige and Sheryl Crowe have been known to hit city streets in cowboy hats. Over recent seasons, Western wear has also shown up on the runways of designers like Anna Sui and Diane von Furstenberg. Even Britain’s Luella Bartley dressed models in Apache headdresses with sheer black baby doll dresses for her geographically confused collection, “Cowboys and Indians at Glastonbury.”

Western wear keeps coming back because it has that comfort and easy sex appeal associated with a life lived in the great outdoors.

Marlboro Man, anyone? As Anna Sui said, explaining her collection of embroidered petticoats and scrunched cowboy boots, “It makes sense to look to what’s going on in our country. This is what was happening here.”

All fashions are available at the SW Hill Country Store, 1412 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock, (323) 256-2500.

Cantina Cool Hide from the rays with a straw cowboy hat with a denim-bonded brim, an embellished denim headband and a brass concha with a leather tongue. Bullhide Co. $39. This red cotton Western shirt with black-and-white embroidery, black piping, smile pockets and “shotgun” sleeves is made by Rockmount Ranch Wear, whose company founder, Jack A. Weil, is credited with putting the snap into Western shirts. $99. The black cotton tank bears a white emblem of the Hollywood country band, Old Bull, which has played the SW Hill Country Store. $22. Vintage tooled single-rig holster belt.

El Paso Saddlery Co. $195. Black leather belt with silver-colored conchas embellished with crystals. Roper. $110. Ivory tiered miniskirt. Anchor Blue. $20.

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The Middle Way No self-respecting fashionista can afford to be without a fabulous Western belt. On the left: Vintage-style, distressed-leather belt with cowgirl imagery and “filly” filigree buckle. Cowboy Décor. $69. On the right: Hand-painted leather belt with floral tooling, Swarovski crystals and a three-piece buckle. Ocona Belt Co. $163.

Fringe Elements A bold fringe jacket separates the cowgirls from the cow women. This black, waist-length lambskin bolero has natural-leather fringe and yolk, trimmed with studs and braiding. Leather Gallery. $220.

From the Ground Up Invest in a good pair of cowboy boots and you may wear out before they do. After all, they’re made for roping dogies, even if all you do is walk doggies. These have an embroidered, honey leather top and chocolate-colored vamp and an easy-on-the foot J toe, which lies somewhere between a round and pointy X toe a la Dwight Yoakam. Oh, yes. And there’s a shelf behind the heel for your spur. The fur-on-hide belt is studded and embellished with chunky Swarovski crystals. Nocona. $165.

In the Bag A structured leather bag with Western tooling adds snap to casual weekends. This ruby-red coach bag is accented with a floral, silvercolored Western buckle. American West. $120.

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Toy,” who will discuss observing and playing with kids, while demonstrating various toys and games. She will also sign her latest book. The seminar runs from 4 to 6 p.m.

Aug. 25 — The rootsy family band Jambo performs uplifting songs about growing up, sharing and inclusion at 1:30 p.m. Kidspace Children’s Museum, 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., Pasadena. Call (626) 449-9144 or visit www.kidspacemuseum.org.

KIDS WHO COOK (AND ACT) Aug. 2 — The Melting Pot Dinner Theatre for Kids offers a unique experience combining acting, learning about different cultures and cooking for their parents. The group is holding a fundraiser to help support its sister school in Kenya. The event includes music, food and fun and runs from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The Melting Pot Dinner Theatre for Kids, 569 W. Loma Alta Drive, Altadena. Call (626) 208-1355 or visit www.themeltingpotdinnertheatre.com.

IT’S TEA TIME Aug. 4 — Now you can learn how to create your own memorable tea party. Chado Tea Room and Paper Architect conduct a “How to Plan a Tea Party Workshop” from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A tea tasting with Chado’s owner is included. Guests will sample seven different types of teas and discover their distinct characteristics, then sit down for a traditional afternoon tea. Cost is $55. Register in advance at www.paperarchitect.com. Chado Tea Room, 79 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Call (818) 752-6771.

THE ZOO NEEDS YOU SUMMER FUN AT KIDSPACE Kidspace Children’s Museum offers educational and entertaining activities for kids of all ages all summer long.

Aug. 2 — The “Concerts on the Frog” series features Debi Derryberry, known as the voice of “Jimmy Neutron,” in a concert blending rock, country, blues, jazz and boogie woogie at 6 p.m.

Aug. 4 & 5 — The two-day “Chalk on the Walk” workshop lets kids 7 and older experience the medium in various art projects and science experiments. Kids can watch street painters and create their own chalk pictures.

Aug. 11 — The Festival of the Arts lets kids witness artists at work, interact with a giant balloon sculpture, watch special performances and participate in a variety of art workshops from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Aug. 13 through 18 — Kidspace partners with A Noise Within theater group to inspire kids to appreciate Shakespeare in “A Midsummer Day Camp” where classically trained instructors demonstrate the arts of theater makeup, dress-up, sword-fighting and acting. The camp ends with a Shakespearean stage performance.

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Aug. 5 — Some 750 individuals work as docents and volunteers at the L.A. Zoo, contributing more than 52,000 hours last year alone. The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) is always seeking to add to their ranks; help is needed for animal care, observational research and special events held year-round. GLAZA will hold orientation for volunteers from 10 to 11 a.m. Interviews for candidates age 16 and over continue through 3 p.m. at the Zoo’s Witherbee Auditorium. The Los Angeles Zoo, 5333 Zoo Drive, Griffith Park. Call (323) 644-4703 or visit www.lazoo.org.

MUSICAL DIVERSITY IN THE OPEN AIR Sierra Madre’s Department of Community and Personnel Services continues its annual “Concerts in the Park” series, featuring a diverse selection of performances. Concerts take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday nights in Memorial Park. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating on the green.

Aug. 5 — Ken O’Malley & the Twilight Lords Aug. 12 — Pasadena Crown City Chorus Aug. 19 — Elvis and the Heroes of Rock Aug. 26 — Fairytale and Fantasy III Memorial Park, 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre. Call (626) 355-5278.

PASADENA’S ARTISTIC EDEN Aug. 11 — The historic beauty of Pasadena has long been the stuff of local pride and legend. From its fine architecture to the natural treasures surrounding the city, artists have long captured local images on canvas.

During California Impressionism’s early days, the area inspired artists including Edgar Payne, Hanson Puthuff, Jean Mannheim, Benjamin Brown and Sam Hyde Harris, who chronicled the local landscape.

Continuing that tradition, more than 175 prominent artists were asked to create artworks reflecting the San Gabriel Valley for a juried event titled “Contemporary Masters, Artistic Eden,” opening August 11 at the Pasadena Museum of History. The exhibition is a collaboration between the museum and local galleries Galerie Gabrie, Michael Hollis Fine Art, San Marino Gallery, Segil Fine Art Gallery and Tirage Gallery. Final selections were made by museum officials, independent fine art professionals and the gallery sponsors. The exhibition continues through Aug. 26. The Pasadena Museum of History, 470 W. Walnut St., Pasadena. Call (626) 577-1660 or visit www.pasade nahistory.org.

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The Pasadena Playhouse District comes alive with the sounds of jazz Sundays in the courtyard of Vroman’s Bookstore. The free “Jazz Summer Concert Series” produced by the Pasadena Jazz Institute is in its fourth season. Guests may dine at an area restaurant or picnic in the courtyard.

Concerts run from 5 to 8 p.m. Here’s the August lineup: Aug. 5 — Trumpeter Nolan Shaheed.

Aug. 12 — Chuck Manning Quartet featuring vocalist Liela Avila.

Aug. 19 — Vocalist Cheryl Barnes Aug. 26 — Trumpeter Elliott Caine and his Quintet The series continues through Sept. 30. Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Call (626) 744-0340 or visit www.playhousedistrict.org.

Aug. 10 — Local citizens can learn how to shape their future at the Pasadena Neighborhood Leadership Institute. The PNLI is a free, eight-week interactive training program aimed at empowering emerging local leaders from the city’s diverse neighborhoods. Participants learn how to improve their neighborhoods through team problem-solving and linking up with community resources, institutions, government and social service agencies. Students also strategize on ways to connect with representatives from other neighborhoods to share information and support systems. Mayor Bill Bogaard initiated the program in partnership with the Flintridge Foundation and the Pasadena Foundation. The PNLI is administered by the City of Pasadena Neighborhood Connections office. Aug. 10 is the deadline to register for the program, which runs from Sept. 11 to Nov. 6. Pasadena Neighborhood Leadership Institute, (626) 744-7290 or visit www. cityofpasadena.net.

WINE AND MUSIC AT DESCANSO Descanso Gardens offers evenings for sampling fine wines and dishes against a backdrop of great music: Aug. 9 — Patina’s summer wine-tasting series features a selection of red wines and a chicken entree from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Japanese Gardens. Cost is $45 for Descanso members, $52 for non-members. Call Patina at (818) 7903663 for reservations.

Aug. 17 through 19 — Pasadena POPS salutes great musicals of 1957 like “The Music Man” and “West Side Story” with a concert titled “76 Trombones.” Guests may bring a picnic or order dinner from Patina two days before the event.

Pre-concert dining starts at 5:30 p.m.; concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 7 p.m. Sunday. Call Patina at (818) 790-3663 to order dinner; for concert tickets, call Pasadena POPS at (626) 792-7677.

Aug. 23 — Patina’s summer wine-tasting series continues with wines of France and hors d’oeuvres from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Boddy House. Cost is $45 for Descanso members, $52 for non-members. For reservations, call Patina at (818) 790-3663. If music is your main dish, simply lounge on the lawn and savor a jazz duet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The cost for adults is $3.50; free for members. Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge. Call 818.949.4200 or visit www.descan sogardens.org.

SOUTHWEST SUMMER FESTIVAL CONTINUES AT THE HUNTINGTON Summer is in full swing at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, as Southwest Chamber Music continues its popular “Summer Festival at the Huntington” concert series at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays on the Huntington Garden Terrace.

Aug. 10 & 11 — Mozart’s “Quintet for Piano & Winds, K. 452,” Beethoven’s “Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 16” and Schubert’s “Shepherd on the Rock.”

Aug. 24 & 25 — Tchaikovsky’s “Autumn Song,” Brahms’ “String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 and von Weber’s “Quintet for Clarinet & Strings.” The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. Call (800) 726-7147 or visit www.swmusic.org.

REMEMBERING FORGOTTEN PLACES Aug. 18 — Segil Fine Art Gallery presents “Forgotten Places Remembered,” an exhibit of urban and rural plein-air scenes of Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ojai and elsewhere by Jennifer

McChristian. The artist writes: “The architecture of decay and dereliction conjures a reverence that I honor. I try to immortalize them before they vanish to encroaching development or simply fall apart from disuse.” The exhibit opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 18 and continues through Sept. 15. Segil Fine Art Gallery, 110 W. Lime Ave., Monrovia. Call (626) 358-5563 or visit www.segilfineart.com.

A MATTER OF HONOR Aug. 24 — “A Matter of Honor,” Michael Chepiga’s play about the legendary trials of West Point Military Academy candidate Johnson Whittaker, opens at the Pasadena Playhouse. Whittaker was the roommate of Henry Flipper, the academy’s first African American graduate. “A Matter of Honor” continues through Sept. 30. The Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 356PLAY or visit www.pasadenaplayhouse.org.

A PARADISE LOST AT BOSTON COURT Through Sept. 2 — The Theatre @ Boston Court presents the world premiere of the musical “Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings,” with music and book written by Eric Whitacre. “Paradise Lost” tells the story of an angel who tries to return home against monumental odds. The production is a cultural hybrid: It combines Western music theater traditions with anime, Asian drumming and martial arts. The score encompasses opera, trance, techno, ambient rock and cinematic sounds. Michael Michetti directs, with musical direction by Greg Chun and lyrics by Whitacre and David Norona.

“Paradise Lost” special events: Aug. 3 — “Live Wired” features a coffee bar, music and gift bag for young urbanites age 25 and under, before the 7:30 p.m. performance and again after the show.

Aug. 10, 17, 24 and 31 — “Late Night Salon @ the Court” follows Friday performances, when the venue turns into an after-hours coffee house hosting discussions about the play with some of the creative forces behind the production. The Theatre @ Boston Court, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 683-6883 or visit www.bostoncourt.org.

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El Vaquero What do El Cholo Cafe, the rodeo and Nolan Ryan have in common? Barn Burner BBQ

BY STEVE COULTER A big, red barn is hard to miss, especially one with a 6-foot-tall white rooster out front. Inside Barn Burner BBQ, there are long wooden tables lined with benches and mismatched chairs, neon beer signs, Western movie posters and the occasional Texas license plate nailed to the wall.

There’s live country music Friday and Saturday nights as well as baskets of complimentary peanuts on every table. About the only thing missing is a pool table; otherwise, it’s an authentic Texas joint. The anomaly is it’s in Pasadena, and an Orange County native best known for his enchiladas and margaritas is the man responsible for it all.

Blair Salisbury grew up in the noted restaurant family that gave us the iconic El Cholo Café chain.

Once an aspiring chef who worked under Hans Prager at the Ritz in Newport Beach, Salisbury obeyed his father’s wishes and left the kitchen in 1989 to run front-of-house operations for the expanding family business. When it came time to strike out on his own in 2000, Salisbury formed Hospitality Management Services with partner Diego Fernandez and opened his own El Cholo Cafe in Pasadena. Since then, he has opened two Dona Rosa Bakery & Taqueria locations, and in 2005, he launched the Barn Burner BBQ concept.

Armed with two decades as a weekend rodeo roper as well as a familial bond with Hall of Fame pitcher and devoted Texan Nolan Ryan, Salisbury thought he was well equipped to bring Lone Star BBQ to Pasadena. The result is a menu featuring smoked and smothered meats, ranging from brisket and tri-tip to pulled pork, hot links and whole chickens. Side dishes include baked beans, corn on the cob, sweet-potato fries and jalapeño peppers.

Wash it all down with a Mason jar of homemade lemonade or a pint of Shiner Bock, and you’re in for an authentic Texas BBQ experience – sans the wax paper. This is still California, after all.

You were a restaurant brat who grew up in Orange County. How did you get into team roping?

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the team-roping capital of the world. I got into it because I like horses, and one of the guys who worked construction in our restaurants lived out in Norco, so I would go out there on my days off and ride with him. I watched these guys team rope, and I thought it would be cool. Next thing I knew, I was doing it for 17 years, traveling around California, Arizona and Nevada on the weekends.

I was smart enough to stay out of bull riding.

Do you still ride?

No. Rodeo is a way of life. You have to go and ride on the weekends, and that’s tough in the restaurant business. It just didn’t make sense for me to be doing it, especially when I went out on my own, because that required 100 percent of my time. I really enjoyed it, and I think it helped me gain a lot of confidence that I could apply to my business skills. I also met a lot of people because I traveled a lot.

Did the rodeo give you the idea for Barn Burner BBQ? The idea grew out of my friendship with] Nolan Ryan, the baseball pitcher, a friend of my father’s. His kids would spend summers with us, so I would go down [to Texas] pretty often. I also traveled through Texas doing the rodeo and roping. When we decided to open Barn Burner, I contacted [Ryan’s son] Reed and went down

there with a couple of my investors. We just went everywhere—from pit-barbecue place to pitbarbecue place. I had already gone to quite a few barbecue places with [the Ryans] over the years, so I had a pretty good feel for what it was.

That seems like pretty fun research. What’s the most authentic thing about Barn Burner BBQ? All pit-barbeque places in Texas have this really good, lingering smell, and we definitely have that. That aroma, the wooden tables and the open room and atmosphere are really authentic. But there were some things from Texas I tried that people totally rejected, like serving the food on wax paper. Of course, the Texans were upset with me when I went to plates. When it comes to barbeque, people are really opinionated.

What’s your favorite dish?

When I eat at Barn Burner, I usually get the beef ribs. They don’t sell as well as some of the other dishes because they’re big and messy, but I think they retain the flavor the best; when you smoke them, the fat retains the flavor of the smoke.

In fact, I think I might eat dinner there tonight.

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The Spanish Colonial clubhouse was designed by the club’s first president, prominent A.I.A. architect Reginald D. Johnson, and subsequent upgrades include stables and paddocks to house and care for 180 horses. Other amenities include three jumping rings, grandstands for 600, two competition dressage areas, cross-country courses and easy access to miles of welltended riding trails.

Riding activities are offered for all ages and skill levels and consist of hunter/jumping, dressage, eventing and Western pleasure. Guest-instructor clinics and three major annual horse shows round out the stable’s repertoire of events. Flintridge Riding Club, 4625 Oak Grove Dr., La Cañada Flintridge. Call (818) 952-1233 or visit www.flintridgeridingclub.org.

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Nestled in the hillside east of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Altadena Stables is situated at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, with access to miles of national forest trails. Lessons include both Western and English styles as well as saddle-seat riding, which is a Western variation. Summer camp is also offered.

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The old adage about building wealth still applies to residential real estate even though the market has cooled.

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