Author Rick Thomas is the former museum curator and vicechair of education for the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation. He served on the South Pasadena Natural Resources Commission, helping to maintain a strict policy protecting the city's great oldgrowth trees. Using touchstone photographs from his own collection--one of the San Gabriel Valley's largest accumulations of historical images and artifacts--as well as national, state, and local historical archives, Thomas provides a window to his city's past and an understanding of why its preservation is so important.
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