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The incident started at approximately 1:05 PM local time on October 23, 1989, at 1400 Jefferson Road, Pasadena, Texas. A powerful and devastating explosion and fire ripped through the HCC, killing 23 people—all working at the facility—and injuring 314 others (185 Phillips Petroleum Company employees and 129 contract employees).
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Loretta Jean Thompson-Glickman (May 23, 1945 – March 18, 2001) was an American politician. She became the first African-American mayor of Pasadena, California, in 1982, [1] [2] which also made her the first Black woman to be mayor of an American city of over 100,000 residents.
She died in 2019, aged 94 years, in Pasadena, California. [2] There is a box of her papers, including letters, photographs, and her 1944 identification badge, at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
The stores were founded by Charles Harris Baker [2] (b. Dec. 23, 1869, Martin County, Indiana, moved to Los Angeles in 1880 and Pasadena in 1889, died in an auto accident August 22, 1939, Pasadena, California) [3] In about 1898, Baker started as an employee in Hamilton's shoe store in Los Angeles at a salary of $12 per week.
Pasadena Now began by reporting on musical events, restaurant reviews, and other local news within Pasadena, California in 2004, and within three years had expanded to cover business and other topics. Macpherson is the magazine's editor and publisher, and Merill is the magazine's Events Editor and Chief Photographer.
Bertha Lee Turner (1867–1938) was an American caterer, cookbook author, and community leader in Pasadena, California, in the early 1900s. [1] She is most famous for compiling The Federation Cookbook: A Collection of Tested Recipes Compiled by the Colored Women of the State of California.
William Mihrtad Paparian (born 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician, a former mayor of Pasadena, California, serving from 1995 to 1997.He was also a member of the Pasadena City Council from 1987 to 1999, and a Green Party candidate for Congress in 2006.