Signs of old Altadena times: Owen Brown and El Prieto : comp

Saturday’s civic unveiling in the Altadena foothills is not of the thing itself but of the wayfinding signs telling visitors how to get to the thing. Is that a thing? Is it a reminder that in Alta-dinky — as longtime Altadenan and founding arts editor of the Altadena/Pasadena Weekly Mel Malmberg used to lovingly call it — little things can be big? Whatever. My old hometown is the hottest, hippest neighborhood in all the L.A. world these days, and let it find more reasons to celebrate. Especially when these signs, which will point the way to the gravesite of Owen […]

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