All of it is beautiful, Old Town is great. Studied at PCC, know Pas like the back of my hand. I love how green Pasadena is, lot's of beautiful old trees. Pasadena was old East Coast money, lot's of amazing stately homes there. One of LA's first suburbs. South Pasadena and San Marino are lovely too. Thanks for flying over my old home, made me a little emotional!
I was born in Santa Monica but, from age 7, I was raised in Arcadia. Learned to drive in the Santa Anita parking lot. Played golf in that course. Went to the races only once. Watched two races. Both my "favorite" horses threw their riders. Never went again. Spent may hours playing at the Arboretum and stealing Peacock feathers. The Queen Ann Cottage was featured in the TV series Fantasy Island. Went to Pasadena City College (PCC) in the sixties and again in the 80's and 90's. Lived all over Pasadena and Altadena etc.: overlooking the Rose Bowl, up by JPL, hiked the Arroyo above JPL scores of times. Side note: the Pasadena City Hall is the setting for the TV series Parks and Recreation. Tons of cultural activities, education, hiking, restaurants, the famous Green and Green Gambel House, and so very much more.
At about 23:00, you overfly Parsons Corporation, founded by Ralph M. Parsons. Not to be confused with Jack Parsons (the founder of JPL) or Alan Parsons (or his project).
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RARELY see a day THAT clear. PRETTY. The mountains are incredibly clear. Another rarity down there. WOW!
At 20:31 People are just dying to get in there! I'm sorry, my Dad told me that joke when I was 8 and we were driving by a cemetery. Every time I see a sign for a cemetery I think of that.
We used to travel up from San Diego in the late 40's to visit 2 uncles! One was the fire chief & the other was the water commissioner whose duties included the Rose Bowl grounds maintenance which was done by prisoners. He used to take me with him to check on things. Thanks for the memories! Thanks Micah!
I'm just going to note this so in the future we will know some stats from the past. It's July 11, 2020 (sorry, I forgot to watch this when you posted it) You currently have 70,500 subscribers. This video has 13,585 views and 825 likes. Wait, what? ONLY 825 likes??? what the heck people? 7 dislikes???? Who didn't like this video? He does exactly what it says. It's a flyover. It's awesome! oh yeah, I forgot. I am watching this on a 140 inch screen with an Optoma 1080P Home Theater Projector. With actual surround sound from my Yamaha receiver. That's the best way to see these videos, OK, EVERY video.
Thank you! I asked for this tour. Grew up in Arcadia, snuck into the Arboretum (with about every kid in Arcadia) at night, played sports at Arcadia Park, went a year to PCC, did work at Cal Tech, hung out at Huntington Gardens...old town Pasadena. You made my heart happy!M!
LOVE, the "Go Sports! when flying over a stadium. I saw the video where you admitted you know nothing about sports so seeing "Go Sports!" cracks me up every time!! Funny stuff. Keep up the great videos!
Glad you mentioned that. The Pasadena freeway speed limit is still only 55mph and was built so long ago i'm not even sure they had cars back then...thus the short or non existing on-ramps.
Thanks so much Micah. I live in downtown Pasadena, just off Colorado Blvd. You flew over my apartment. It is great to see so much of Pasadena from the air. It is a fantastic city, so many places to see, great restaurants, theaters and only a short train to downtown Los Angeles. I love watching your other videos too, your commentary is great.
You were so close to the top of Lake Ave in Altadena where a trailhead begins that winds up to Mt Lowe and Echo Mountain. But you turned south too soon. Also, you should flown over Eagle Rock, the actual rock formation. But still, an awesome video!
OMG --- super happy you did this. I go to many of these areas all the time since I live in this direction. You hit most of the highlights but didnt mention much of Old Town/Civic Center area especially City Hall (aka Pawnee C.H. from Parks and Rec), and the Pasadena Convention Center which hosted many awards shows and does many of the pre-live America's Got Talent show auditions. Jackie Robinson attended Pasadena City College before going to UCLA and being a Dodgers baseball player. Also in Pasadena as you were flying towards Arroyo Seco Parkway was Wrigley Mansion, the same guy who owned the Cubs (Wrigley Field) and the chewing gum. Mansion is just before the start of the Rose Parade. About 1 mile south of there near the border of South Pasadena was site of the original Busch Gardens (as in theme parks today) but was actually just Gardens that no longer exists. At the foot of JPL was Devil's Gate dam (haunted?). 1 miles west of JPL is Descano Gardens Botanical like Huntington Botanical. Odd the San Gabriel Valley has all the gardens. County Arboretum has the famous Queen Anne house where they filmed Fantasy Island TV show (the plane! the plane!). I just dated myself with that TV reference. The old railroad is actually now the Metro Gold Line rail tracks. Used to be the main railroad route 100+ years ago from the midwest-east coast? to Downtown LA with stops in Pasadena which is why many famous people from this part of the America settled in Pasadena like Wrigley, Busch, Huntington family.
My favorite place is probably Huntington Library Gardens because of the different gardens. Second favorite is Norton Simon Museum. Third is Pasadena City College where I graduated and did the PCC marching band and Rose Parade band one year but that school had so many changes in the past 2 decades that I dont recognize all those new buildings.
18:50 Great tour Micah but you flew right past Pasadena City Hall, a fabulous California Mediterranean architecture. Next door is also a lovely Leftist Episcopalian church called All Saints.
I enjoy viewing the greater LA and environs. Built in the 1950’s the Arroyo Seco Parkway was the first freeway in LA. Cars from that era were much slower than those today. The On and Off ramps were constructed based on the speed of cars of that time.
The on & off ramps on the Pasadena/Highland Park portion of the 110 frwy were used for horse and buggy commuting downtown from Pasadena/Sa Gabriel Valley, they were never designed for car use more changed due to the populus building homes so close to the frwy, then the Pasadena Arroyo Seco Parkway /110 it was named a California Historical landmark, so it likely will never be changed...some off ramps speeds are posted 5 miles per hour. Thanks for the tour!
The 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway is both my favorite freeway and least favorite freeway in LA. It's beautiful to drive but it definitely was not designed for today's vehicles and speeds. It is the first freeway built in the United States, so it's a great piece of transportation history. Also, if you do another Pasadena video, passing over the Colorado St Bridge from the south or north, cutting across it perpendicular is a sexier view of it. You can see that's it's pretty tall and has some lovely arches.
Many thanks for flying over the Huntington Micah. That is a cool place to visit by the way - the grounds and buildings of his estate are fascinating. The art/book collections are also excellent. I'm going to visit again on my next trip out there. Mr. Huntington has a great southern California legacy. He once said "I could have made a whole lot more money out of this country than I have done if money-making had not been tempered with real affection for this region."
Here's something else... up in the foothills above Arcadia -- follow Santa Anita Ave on up... there's a big white square shaped structure by Chantry Flats. I used to see it when I was a kid and never knew what its purpose was. Some other places I remember were Eaton Canyon, and the Mt. Wilson road, which went through a cool little woodsy place called Henninger Flats.
Love Pasadena, grew up in So Pasadena, went to PCC (Pasadena City College). The Pasadena Fwy was the first freeway built in LA, just before the war, that's why it has those short on and off-ramps. I lived on Orange Grove Blvd, just north of the Pasadena Fwy, you can see the roof at one point. That house must be worth 10 million dollars nowadays....
The Pasadena frwy was the first frwy in the US back in 1940. so you didn't need much speed to get on and of coarse the off ramps are the same. I haven't been on it in ages, and the pavement looks new. Love that freeway!
@@nathanlewis5682 "The guys come to race her from miles around , but she'll give 'em a length then she'll shut 'em down", meaning she'll spot them a car length head start and still beat them.
Across from Gamble House is the Pasadena Museum of History!!! My grandmother was a caretaker there since 1965. She sadly passed away two years ago. She loved that place like her Home. 💜
I was in my driveway detailing my car and heard an unusual sounding heli and looked up immediately and had a feeling it was u flying around heading eastbound and 3 days later voila u posted this vid confirming it was you who i saw a few days ago😀
All the years I worked across the street from the track at Methodist Hospital, I never did go there. lol I lived in Pas for about 3 years so pretty much checked-off places like the Huntington Library,etc. Great city including the neighboring ones. Back in the day, the night before the Rose Parade was cruise night,. We used to cruise up and down Colorado during the mini-trucking boom in the 80's. You missed the Norton Simon Museum on the right at 11:44,another icon. Rumor back in the day was that some stressed out students from CalTech would jump off the Colorado St. Bridge. No idea if it was true.
Great memories for me with so many locations you flew over, I’ve worked as an extra and stand-in at Santa Anita on several shows, the Arboretum too. The Queen Anne cottage there was used on FANTASY ISLAND. The Pasadena City Hall has been used on so many shows, I remember it doubles for the Beverly Hills City Hall in BEVERLY HILLS COP II, designed by the same architect. If you return to the San Gabriel Valley, you might like to check out Sierra Madre, the town square was featured in the original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and there are many historic and often filmed mansions in the Pasadena area.
My hometown! The Gamble House is my favorite place in Pasadena. One of Greene and Greene's masterpieces, along with the Blacker House (which is alsoin Pasadena). Every piece of furniture was designed by the architects, and every nail is covered with an ebony inlay. The doors are flanked by Tiffany glass; Tiffany also did the main light fixtures. The name Gamble, BTW, is the same Gamble as Procter and Gamble. I could go on, but you should see it for yourself. It's open to the public.
My old neck of the woods. Santa Anita is fun. We lived right down the street from there on 1975. Sunday traffic was crazy during Race Times. L.A. Arboretum was where they filmed the opening for the old Fantasy Island TV Show.( I know, I’m old). Huntington Library is also a Museum of Historical Artifacts. Lots of Art, etc. Over a few years I lived in Arcadia, and Temple City. Pasadena is a very cool place. I started PCC before moving away. Excellent Junior College. On New Years Eve you could watch them drive the Floats from Fiesta Float Builders in T.C. to Colorado Blvd. Thank you for this video!
Yes i have been to Santa anita and my brother and father love to bet on the horses! Ive been to The arboretum it is beautiful, Pasadena is my hometown ,shout out to my family!! @505!! You know who you are!!
Thank you for an excellent tour over Pasadena. While visiting LA some years ago I went to this area and enjoyed it. The Huntington Gardens with its gallery and library and beautiful flowerbeds is a jewel . And I remember nice dinner in a Chinese restaurant. This area is quite far from downtown LA but deserves to be seen.
Awesome to see my old area. If you had gone a bit further west, you would have gone over La Cañada-Flintridge, my old hometown! Though I’ve lived in the OC since the 70’s, I still can’t get the foothill communities out of my heart!
Thanks for doing this Micah! Very cool! Love seeing JPL and the Rose Bowl. I even looked up the Gamble House and learned something. Well done and keep up your great work!
I watch these videos with my sister and it was wonderful to see Mountain View Cemetery in Alta Dena! Our grandparents and other relatives are buried there. (George Reeves, original TV Superman is also there)
Wow, native here and to see all of this from the air puts it into perspective. Amazing. Was the Parkway was one of the first freeways in So Cal? The Rose Bowl has so little access that getting in and out is a big time problem. Yikes. Great video.
I’ve been waiting for this! I love Pasadena soooo much. Seeing it from above really makes me appreciate the city and how lucky I am to live here. My partner is a researcher at CalTech, and he really loved the video as he’s only lived here for a couple years(from Germany) and loves it. You ALMOST passed over my house. You need to go through the Arroyo Seco, west of the Colorado bridge. So many gorgeous mansions, including the bat cave, gorgeous bridges, and my house 😂. Thanks for these videos!
Pasadena is one of my favorite neighborhoods. I think it’s highly underrated. I currently work there as when I was a kid, my best friend used to invite me to his dad’s house (his parents were divorced) in the weekends and he lived in Pasadena. It’s got the Rose Bowl, all the shopping, beautiful homes and it’s also a pretty damn safe and quiet town and just a good amount of distance from Downtown. Also, pretty damn funny to hear how wonky the 110 Pasadena Fwy is from others. It’s definitely a trial by fire for new drivers of cars or of freeways! Btw, I’m pretty sure Micah fellow over my house in this video.
The Gamble House - Used for exterior shots of Doc Emmetts's house in Back To The Future. Very interesting fly-over video Micah. I stayed a few nights in Pasadena 40 years ago on a filming trip to the US. It struck me as a very historic and attractive town.
I used to run a route in Pasadena, loved going to JPL Caltech and PCC, Play House etc. its a very clean city well organized and love those 1 way streets!! Drive Arroyo Seco Parkway..!!
The 110 or Pasadena Freeway was the first freeway in the U.S. It's more scenic than most newer freeways. Those on-ramps are crazy short. When I was a kid, they had stop signs at the end of the on-ramp. You would go down the on-ramp, stop, then take off and pray your car had enough power to merge. Yikes!
Yay! Pasadena! Lots to see and do there. However there is a dark side to the Colorado Street Bridge. People jump off it all the time. Knew someone that lived near it and they moved because they were tired of the drama around the bridge.
You know my favorite spot!!! Thank you so much for flying over The Huntington Library!!!! Please go there with the family once things get less insane and safer; maybe even when the rose garden is in bloom- the place is literally a full day. Thank you again Brother!
That was good. You are getting close to San Fernando, the S.F. mission, James Monroe high school, and J.K. Porter Jr. High. Probably called middle school now. Chatsworth? Sepulveda and Granada hills? I've been gone a long time, would be cool to see those things. Also, San Francisquito canyon? Used to go hiking there a lot. Live in Washington state now. Thanks!
I read somewhere, might be untrue, Johnny Depp has a place down there between the Rose Bowl and JPL. JPL is really in La Canada. The creation of the name ‘Jet Propulsion Laboratory’ was purely political. Political as a means to get as much funding as possible. A great depiction of JPL is in the Matt Damion movie ‘The Martian.’ Shown in the movie are scientists and engineers with long hair and pony tails. There are some real characters at JPL. In the movie they give a brief history of JPL. It’s a think-out-of-the-box place/environment. Until all this Covid-19 business I would try to go to a JPL lecture once a month. If you couldn’t make a Thursday lecture at JPL, they were fridays at Pasadena city college. This last year they moved them to Cal Tech and the Beckman Auditorium(odd seeing from the air). The last Friday JPL lecture we went to was at the Beckman. it was on Dark Matter/ Dark Energy last October. My favorite place to eat in old Pasadena is Himalayan food at the Tibet Nepal House on 36 E Holly Street. I usually go after a Thursday JPL lecture. Weekend nights the place can be packed. Unfortunately Hooters Pasadena has been closed permanently. And that Colorado bridge was nicknamed Suicide bridge. It was a very popular place to off one self. Since it’s upgrade they added high fencing to end that practice. I live close to your helicopter but Pasadena and I go way back, back to things if I posted would sound like BS. But check out the Martian movie. They nail JPL and the people that work there[reference Donald Glover/Childish Gambino’s character]. There is even a JPL scene in the movie in a meeting room complete with a surfboard.
One of my favorite neighbor hoods is Holliston Street Between Orange Grove and Mountain St. Three very Large Craftsman homes in a row inhabit this part of Holliston.
I used to work at Santa Anita, as well as the other race tracks around SoCal. It's a matter of taste. If you have the money to gamble with, it could be fun. It is a dying sport, basically Because of the economy. The virus hasn't helped either. But SAP has a lot of history also. Watch the movie Seabiscuit, that was filmed there.
Beautiful city. Enormous city. Lots of trees and greenspaces. It sure is great to fly over it in your helicopter! The mountains all over the city are beautiful. Lots of homes perched on the edge of cliffs, etc. So I have a question pertaining to brush fires (sorry, this might be a bad question to bring up in LA) but if you had to choose between a house on top of a mountain or hill, versus a home at the bottom or in a valley, which would you say would be safer in case of a fire? I think the higher homes have great views and are probably a lot more expensive, but how safe are they in a brush fire?
Physically, JPL itself is located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge which you skirted. I grew up in La Cañada Flintridge and my dad worked at JPL for 30 years. Thanks for the view!
Arroyo Seco Parkway, Ha Ha, nobody calls it that. To locals it's the Pasadena Freeway. It was the first "freeway" I ever drove on. Very curvy, lots of fun. Especially back in the early 60's at 2 a.m. and 100 MPH.
First time seeing your videos and they are great! Love the commentary as well. I work in Pasadena and live in the east so you covered a good amount of my commute so it was great to see it from above. You also passed by work from above. Had I known I'd gone up to the roof and waved hello. A buddy of mine lives off the 110 and I learned quickly about the short on ramps and just going full throttle on my Hyundai Elantra.
just a nice tidbit, i have some rc motorized first person view electric gliders. if i wanted to but highly illegal they can go up to 10,000 plus feet as long as i have enough battery storage and thermal lift.
Probably the worst Pasadena Fwy offramp is at Ave 43 northbound, getting back on the Fwy at Ave 43 is also the worst onramp. That was closest to my home back in the 1950s and 1960s. The onramp and offramp there is still the same. The on/off ramps at Ave 50 and 60 northbound are similar, southbound has a few E ticket ramps also. "E Ticket" is a term that came about in the 1950s for the more adventurous rides at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. I loved this Pasadena etc flyover, its one of your best, I sent it to everyone I know.
Micah, can you post the footage of the Heritage Square Museum, it was in the bottom of the shot at the end of the video. It would be cool to see it from the belly camera!
What's your favorite spot in or around Pasadena?
Watching the Rose Bowl Parade on Colorado Blvd.
City Hall. If you can walk through it is beautiful. And the fact we have Angeles crest behind
All of it is beautiful, Old Town is great. Studied at PCC, know Pas like the back of my hand. I love how green Pasadena is, lot's of beautiful old trees. Pasadena was old East Coast money, lot's of amazing stately homes there. One of LA's first suburbs. South Pasadena and San Marino are lovely too. Thanks for flying over my old home, made me a little emotional!
CHEERS!! Love your helicopter videos! Thankyou for making them!
Descanso Gardens is closeby... everything in La Canada / Flintridge is gorgeous!
I was born in Santa Monica but, from age 7, I was raised in Arcadia. Learned to drive in the Santa Anita parking lot. Played golf in that course. Went to the races only once. Watched two races. Both my "favorite" horses threw their riders. Never went again. Spent may hours playing at the Arboretum and stealing Peacock feathers. The Queen Ann Cottage was featured in the TV series Fantasy Island. Went to Pasadena City College (PCC) in the sixties and again in the 80's and 90's. Lived all over Pasadena and Altadena etc.: overlooking the Rose Bowl, up by JPL, hiked the Arroyo above JPL scores of times. Side note: the Pasadena City Hall is the setting for the TV series Parks and Recreation. Tons of cultural activities, education, hiking, restaurants, the famous Green and Green Gambel House, and so very much more.
The Gamble house was used as the exterior for Doc Brown's house in Back to the Future!
Beat me to it! My fav movies of all time
I knew it looked and sounded familiar lol
Thank you for flying over Pasadena. My wife and I were able to see our place when during your video. Love seeing our city from above.
At about 23:00, you overfly Parsons Corporation, founded by Ralph M. Parsons. Not to be confused with Jack Parsons (the founder of JPL) or Alan Parsons (or his project).
RARELY see a day THAT clear. PRETTY. The mountains are incredibly clear. Another rarity down there. WOW!
At 20:31 People are just dying to get in there!
I'm sorry, my Dad told me that joke when I was 8 and we were driving by a cemetery. Every time I see a sign for a cemetery I think of that.
We used to travel up from San Diego in the late 40's to visit 2 uncles! One was the fire chief & the other was the water commissioner whose duties included the Rose Bowl grounds maintenance which was done by prisoners. He used to take me with him to check on things. Thanks for the memories! Thanks Micah!
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing that! :-)
I'm just going to note this so in the future we will know some stats from the past. It's July 11, 2020 (sorry, I forgot to watch this when you posted it) You currently have 70,500 subscribers. This video has 13,585 views and 825 likes. Wait, what? ONLY 825 likes??? what the heck people? 7 dislikes???? Who didn't like this video? He does exactly what it says. It's a flyover. It's awesome! oh yeah, I forgot. I am watching this on a 140 inch screen with an Optoma 1080P Home Theater Projector. With actual surround sound from my Yamaha receiver. That's the best way to see these videos, OK, EVERY video.
Thank you! I asked for this tour. Grew up in Arcadia, snuck into the Arboretum (with about every kid in Arcadia) at night, played sports at Arcadia Park, went a year to PCC, did work at Cal Tech, hung out at Huntington Gardens...old town Pasadena. You made my heart happy!M!
20:37 Ahh, you flew right over my grandmother's grave at Mountain View Cemetery! Thanks Micah!... Hi Faye!!
R.I.P. your grandmother. Cheers man. 20:37
My grandparents are also buried at Mountain View Cemetery.
Great flyover. I love the Huntington. Its an art museum and Botanical garden. They also do lots of research and art conservation.
LOVE, the "Go Sports! when flying over a stadium. I saw the video where you admitted you know nothing about sports so seeing "Go Sports!" cracks me up every time!! Funny stuff. Keep up the great videos!
yomikeew i had the reaction. Micah is great dude.
23:30 The 110 freeway is THE FIRST FREEWAY in the world!! It used to be even curvier...
I remember. Crazy narrow lanes and way tight curves.
Second, the first was in New York.
Glad you mentioned that. The Pasadena freeway speed limit is still only 55mph and was built so long ago i'm not even sure they had cars back then...thus the short or non existing on-ramps.
Thanks so much Micah. I live in downtown Pasadena, just off Colorado Blvd. You flew over my apartment. It is great to see so much of Pasadena from the air. It is a fantastic city, so many places to see, great restaurants, theaters and only a short train to downtown Los Angeles. I love watching your other videos too, your commentary is great.
@Harrison Ford will kill someone with his plane 10 degrees hotter than the coast, 10 degrees cooler than the inland empire
@@675Films Yes, it can be over 10 degrees hotter than the coast and 5 degrees warmer than downtown Los Angeles
You were so close to the top of Lake Ave in Altadena where a trailhead begins that winds up to Mt Lowe and Echo Mountain. But you turned south too soon. Also, you should flown over Eagle Rock, the actual rock formation. But still, an awesome video!
OMG --- super happy you did this. I go to many of these areas all the time since I live in this direction. You hit most of the highlights but didnt mention much of Old Town/Civic Center area especially City Hall (aka Pawnee C.H. from Parks and Rec), and the Pasadena Convention Center which hosted many awards shows and does many of the pre-live America's Got Talent show auditions. Jackie Robinson attended Pasadena City College before going to UCLA and being a Dodgers baseball player. Also in Pasadena as you were flying towards Arroyo Seco Parkway was Wrigley Mansion, the same guy who owned the Cubs (Wrigley Field) and the chewing gum. Mansion is just before the start of the Rose Parade. About 1 mile south of there near the border of South Pasadena was site of the original Busch Gardens (as in theme parks today) but was actually just Gardens that no longer exists. At the foot of JPL was Devil's Gate dam (haunted?). 1 miles west of JPL is Descano Gardens Botanical like Huntington Botanical. Odd the San Gabriel Valley has all the gardens. County Arboretum has the famous Queen Anne house where they filmed Fantasy Island TV show (the plane! the plane!). I just dated myself with that TV reference. The old railroad is actually now the Metro Gold Line rail tracks. Used to be the main railroad route 100+ years ago from the midwest-east coast? to Downtown LA with stops in Pasadena which is why many famous people from this part of the America settled in Pasadena like Wrigley, Busch, Huntington family.
My favorite place is probably Huntington Library Gardens because of the different gardens. Second favorite is Norton Simon Museum. Third is Pasadena City College where I graduated and did the PCC marching band and Rose Parade band one year but that school had so many changes in the past 2 decades that I dont recognize all those new buildings.
This is great...I’ve never been to LA, but watching all of these videos, it feels like I’ve been there...Southern California is beautiful
18:50 Great tour Micah but you flew right past Pasadena City Hall, a fabulous California Mediterranean architecture. Next door is also a lovely Leftist Episcopalian church called All Saints.
when I was a kid in 70s we were aloud to go into Santa Anita stables when the track was closed. it was awesome!!
I enjoy viewing the greater LA and environs. Built in the 1950’s the Arroyo Seco Parkway was the first freeway in LA. Cars from that era were much slower than those today. The On and Off ramps were constructed based on the speed of cars of that time.
The on & off ramps on the Pasadena/Highland Park portion of the 110 frwy were used for horse and buggy commuting downtown from Pasadena/Sa Gabriel Valley, they were never designed for car use more changed due to the populus building homes so close to the frwy, then the Pasadena Arroyo Seco Parkway /110 it was named a California Historical landmark, so it likely will never be changed...some off ramps speeds are posted 5 miles per hour. Thanks for the tour!
grew up in South Pasadena 2 blocks from Pasadena freeway and retired from JPL so thats my favorite. It was a great life!!
Thank you for doing this flyover Pasadena! It really means a lot! You rock!! Wooohoo!!😎
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The 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway is both my favorite freeway and least favorite freeway in LA. It's beautiful to drive but it definitely was not designed for today's vehicles and speeds. It is the first freeway built in the United States, so it's a great piece of transportation history. Also, if you do another Pasadena video, passing over the Colorado St Bridge from the south or north, cutting across it perpendicular is a sexier view of it. You can see that's it's pretty tall and has some lovely arches.
Many thanks for flying over the Huntington Micah. That is a cool place to visit by the way - the grounds and buildings of his estate are fascinating. The art/book collections are also excellent. I'm going to visit again on my next trip out there.
Mr. Huntington has a great southern California legacy. He once said "I could have made a whole lot more money out of this country than I have done if money-making had not been tempered with real affection for this region."
3:18 the parking lot of Wally World in National Lampoons "Vacation"
Here's something else... up in the foothills above Arcadia -- follow Santa Anita Ave on up... there's a big white square shaped structure by Chantry Flats. I used to see it when I was a kid and never knew what its purpose was.
Some other places I remember were Eaton Canyon, and the Mt. Wilson road, which went through a cool little woodsy place called Henninger Flats.
Finally! SP, Home of the Tigers, TY Micah! First freeway I drove on was the 110. Unlike any other freeway in the state.
Thanks for the video! My wife and I lived there for a year and that’s the best time that I’ve had!
Love Pasadena, grew up in So Pasadena, went to PCC (Pasadena City College). The Pasadena Fwy was the first freeway built in LA, just before the war, that's why it has those short on and off-ramps. I lived on Orange Grove Blvd, just north of the Pasadena Fwy, you can see the roof at one point. That house must be worth 10 million dollars nowadays....
Same here. SPHS, went to PCC for junior. Now I live where Micah grew up.
Absolutely Beautiful Area! Thank YOU for this most lovely aerial tour!
The Pasadena frwy was the first frwy in the US back in 1940. so you didn't need much speed to get on and of coarse the off ramps are the same. I haven't been on it in ages, and the pavement looks new. Love that freeway!
Have you ever heard the Jan and dean song, "Little old lady from Pasadena"?
The terror of Colorado Blvd.
She would set them up and shut them down.
@@nathanlewis5682 "The guys come to race her from miles around
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but she'll give 'em a length then she'll shut 'em down", meaning she'll spot them a car length head start and still beat them.
HAHA I like where your head's at: "Forget the golf course, look at THIS HOUSE!" xD
Across from Gamble House is the Pasadena Museum of History!!! My grandmother was a caretaker there since 1965. She sadly passed away two years ago. She loved that place like her Home. 💜
I was in my driveway detailing my car and heard an unusual sounding heli and looked up immediately and had a feeling it was u flying around heading eastbound and 3 days later voila u posted this vid confirming it was you who i saw a few days ago😀
All the years I worked across the street from the track at Methodist Hospital, I never did go there. lol I lived in Pas for about 3 years so pretty much checked-off places like the Huntington Library,etc. Great city including the neighboring ones. Back in the day, the night before the Rose Parade was cruise night,. We used to cruise up and down Colorado during the mini-trucking boom in the 80's. You missed the Norton Simon Museum on the right at 11:44,another icon. Rumor back in the day was that some stressed out students from CalTech would jump off the Colorado St. Bridge. No idea if it was true.
Great memories for me with so many locations you flew over, I’ve worked as an extra and stand-in at Santa Anita on several shows, the Arboretum too. The Queen Anne cottage there was used on FANTASY ISLAND. The Pasadena City Hall has been used on so many shows, I remember it doubles for the Beverly Hills City Hall in BEVERLY HILLS COP II, designed by the same architect. If you return to the San Gabriel Valley, you might like to check out Sierra Madre, the town square was featured in the original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and there are many historic and often filmed mansions in the Pasadena area.
My hometown! The Gamble House is my favorite place in Pasadena. One of Greene and Greene's masterpieces, along with the Blacker House (which is alsoin Pasadena). Every piece of furniture was designed by the architects, and every nail is covered with an ebony inlay. The doors are flanked by Tiffany glass; Tiffany also did the main light fixtures. The name Gamble, BTW, is the same Gamble as Procter and Gamble. I could go on, but you should see it for yourself. It's open to the public.
My old neck of the woods. Santa Anita is fun. We lived right down the street from there on 1975. Sunday traffic was crazy during Race Times. L.A. Arboretum was where they filmed the opening for the old Fantasy Island TV Show.( I know, I’m old). Huntington Library is also a Museum of Historical Artifacts. Lots of Art, etc. Over a few years I lived in Arcadia, and Temple City. Pasadena is a very cool place. I started PCC before moving away. Excellent Junior College. On New Years Eve you could watch them drive the Floats from Fiesta Float Builders in T.C. to Colorado Blvd. Thank you for this video!
Great job! There were so many cool favorite places in this one! Thank you!
Yes i have been to Santa anita and my brother and father love to bet on the horses! Ive been to The arboretum it is beautiful, Pasadena is my hometown ,shout out to my family!! @505!! You know who you are!!
Thank you for an excellent tour over Pasadena. While visiting LA some years ago I went to this area and enjoyed it. The Huntington Gardens with its gallery and library and beautiful flowerbeds is a jewel . And I remember nice dinner in a Chinese restaurant. This area is quite far from downtown LA but deserves to be seen.
Beautiful clear day, lovely scenery. Thanks, Micah!
Beautiful day for a flight!
Wolfe Burgers and the Handlebars Saloon were my favorite memories of Pasadena.
Another great video of the LA Area. Thanks Micah
Enjoyed Pasadena very much. Thank you.
Awesome to see my old area. If you had gone a bit further west, you would have gone over La Cañada-Flintridge, my old hometown! Though I’ve lived in the OC since the 70’s, I still can’t get the foothill communities out of my heart!
We missed the Little Old Lady from Pasadena!
OMG You flew over my city in the beginning and I'm so happy. Thank you for this.
My pleasure!
Love it!! I worked at the Huntington Gardens as well as the Rose Bowl in 2020. It’s great to see both in this video
What fun, Pasadena is my old stomping ground, learned to fly and buzzed houses in that area! Great blast from the past! Thank you!
When you said the Gamble house I kept thinking I knew that name. Then I saw it. Doc Brown’s house from Back to the Future...
Thanks for doing this Micah! Very cool! Love seeing JPL and the Rose Bowl. I even looked up the Gamble House and learned something. Well done and keep up your great work!
Love these longer ones Micah. Thanks for sharing with us
So cool you can see Catalina Island to the left of Los Angeles @ 22:00
I watch these videos with my sister and it was wonderful to see Mountain View Cemetery in Alta Dena! Our grandparents and other relatives are buried there. (George Reeves, original TV Superman is also there)
Love these longer videos with lots in them. No requests though as you've done the theme parks and movie studios already. Please keep them coming
It seems like setting an east coast college town down in the middle of the LA metropolis.
Wow, native here and to see all of this from the air puts it into perspective. Amazing. Was the Parkway was one of the first freeways in So Cal? The Rose Bowl has so little access that getting in and out is a big time problem. Yikes. Great video.
I’ve been waiting for this! I love Pasadena soooo much. Seeing it from above really makes me appreciate the city and how lucky I am to live here. My partner is a researcher at CalTech, and he really loved the video as he’s only lived here for a couple years(from Germany) and loves it. You ALMOST passed over my house. You need to go through the Arroyo Seco, west of the Colorado bridge. So many gorgeous mansions, including the bat cave, gorgeous bridges, and my house 😂. Thanks for these videos!
I used to live next door (south) of the Gamble House. Great neighborhood!
Pasadena is one of my favorite neighborhoods. I think it’s highly underrated. I currently work there as when I was a kid, my best friend used to invite me to his dad’s house (his parents were divorced) in the weekends and he lived in Pasadena. It’s got the Rose Bowl, all the shopping, beautiful homes and it’s also a pretty damn safe and quiet town and just a good amount of distance from Downtown. Also, pretty damn funny to hear how wonky the 110 Pasadena Fwy is from others. It’s definitely a trial by fire for new drivers of cars or of freeways! Btw, I’m pretty sure Micah fellow over my house in this video.
The Gamble House - Used for exterior shots of Doc Emmetts's house in Back To The Future. Very interesting fly-over video Micah. I stayed a few nights in Pasadena 40 years ago on a filming trip to the US. It struck me as a very historic and attractive town.
Favorite thing about Pasadena? The Little Old Lady. :D
I like the flock of green parrots in Pasadena! they are very loud
The Huntington Library is lovely. They have a restaurant in the Chinese Garden that is great!
I used to run a route in Pasadena, loved going to JPL Caltech and PCC, Play House etc. its a very clean city well organized and love those 1 way streets!! Drive Arroyo Seco Parkway..!!
Thank you Mica for another GREAT video with equally great commentary. Stay safe
What a trip seeing my house and neighborhood from the air. Maybe fly over chantry flats, gmr or angles crest ?
grew up just south of the rose bowl. good times
The 110 or Pasadena Freeway was the first freeway in the U.S. It's more scenic than most newer freeways. Those on-ramps are crazy short. When I was a kid, they had stop signs at the end of the on-ramp. You would go down the on-ramp, stop, then take off and pray your car had enough power to merge. Yikes!
Yay! Pasadena! Lots to see and do there. However there is a dark side to the Colorado Street Bridge. People jump off it all the time. Knew someone that lived near it and they moved because they were tired of the drama around the bridge.
You know my favorite spot!!! Thank you so much for flying over The Huntington Library!!!! Please go there with the family once things get less insane and safer; maybe even when the rose garden is in bloom- the place is literally a full day. Thank you again Brother!
I agree
That was good. You are getting close to San Fernando, the S.F. mission, James Monroe high school, and J.K. Porter Jr. High. Probably called middle school now. Chatsworth? Sepulveda and Granada hills? I've been gone a long time, would be cool to see those things. Also, San Francisquito canyon? Used to go hiking there a lot. Live in Washington state now. Thanks!
Pasadena P.D. used to fly Engstroms. Had an aquaintence who used to live next door to the heliport.
Very cool Born and raised in Pasadena 😎🙂
I read somewhere, might be untrue, Johnny Depp has a place down there between the Rose Bowl and JPL. JPL is really in La Canada. The creation of the name ‘Jet Propulsion Laboratory’ was purely political. Political as a means to get as much funding as possible. A great depiction of JPL is in the Matt Damion movie ‘The Martian.’ Shown in the movie are scientists and engineers with long hair and pony tails. There are some real characters at JPL. In the movie they give a brief history of JPL. It’s a think-out-of-the-box place/environment. Until all this Covid-19 business I would try to go to a JPL lecture once a month. If you couldn’t make a Thursday lecture at JPL, they were fridays at Pasadena city college. This last year they moved them to Cal Tech and the Beckman Auditorium(odd seeing from the air). The last Friday JPL lecture we went to was at the Beckman. it was on Dark Matter/ Dark Energy last October. My favorite place to eat in old Pasadena is Himalayan food at the Tibet Nepal House on 36 E Holly Street. I usually go after a Thursday JPL lecture. Weekend nights the place can be packed. Unfortunately Hooters Pasadena has been closed permanently. And that Colorado bridge was nicknamed Suicide bridge. It was a very popular place to off one self. Since it’s upgrade they added high fencing to end that practice. I live close to your helicopter but Pasadena and I go way back, back to things if I posted would sound like BS. But check out the Martian movie. They nail JPL and the people that work there[reference Donald Glover/Childish Gambino’s character]. There is even a JPL scene in the movie in a meeting room complete with a surfboard.
One of my favorite neighbor hoods is Holliston Street Between Orange Grove and Mountain St. Three very Large Craftsman homes in a row inhabit this part of Holliston.
You flew over the Pasadena Police heliport next to the Arroyo, I was sure you were going to mention it,
I have been to Santa Anita many times
I used to work at Santa Anita, as well as the other race tracks around SoCal. It's a matter of taste. If you have the money to gamble with, it could be fun. It is a dying sport, basically Because of the economy. The virus hasn't helped either. But SAP has a lot of history also. Watch the movie Seabiscuit, that was filmed there.
Great flight.
You start the video with Santa Fe Dam out to your left... nice spot for helicopter training!
Beautiful city. Enormous city. Lots of trees and greenspaces. It sure is great to fly over it in your helicopter! The mountains all over the city are beautiful. Lots of homes perched on the edge of cliffs, etc. So I have a question pertaining to brush fires (sorry, this might be a bad question to bring up in LA) but if you had to choose between a house on top of a mountain or hill, versus a home at the bottom or in a valley, which would you say would be safer in case of a fire? I think the higher homes have great views and are probably a lot more expensive, but how safe are they in a brush fire?
Physically, JPL itself is located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge which you skirted. I grew up in La Cañada Flintridge and my dad worked at JPL for 30 years. Thanks for the view!
Gamble House!
I never heard of the gamble house before, I'm gonna learn about it!
DOC BROWN!! GREAT SCOTT!!
Arroyo Seco Parkway, Ha Ha, nobody calls it that. To locals it's the Pasadena Freeway. It was the first "freeway" I ever drove on. Very curvy, lots of fun. Especially back in the early 60's at 2 a.m. and 100 MPH.
I was wondering how long it was going to be before you flew over my neck of the woods. Nice to see the areas I traverse regularly from above for once.
First time seeing your videos and they are great! Love the commentary as well. I work in Pasadena and live in the east so you covered a good amount of my commute so it was great to see it from above. You also passed by work from above. Had I known I'd gone up to the roof and waved hello. A buddy of mine lives off the 110 and I learned quickly about the short on ramps and just going full throttle on my Hyundai Elantra.
Good scouting photography!!!
My home town!
just a nice tidbit, i have some rc motorized first person view electric gliders. if i wanted to but highly illegal they can go up to 10,000 plus feet as long as i have enough battery storage and thermal lift.
Awesome! At 11:22 you have Raymond Ave marked as Lake Ave. : )
How about checking out Glendale?
Probably the worst Pasadena Fwy offramp is at Ave 43 northbound, getting back on the Fwy at Ave 43 is also the worst onramp. That was closest to my home back in the 1950s and 1960s. The onramp and offramp there is still the same. The on/off ramps at Ave 50 and 60 northbound are similar, southbound has a few E ticket ramps also. "E Ticket" is a term that came about in the 1950s for the more adventurous rides at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.
I loved this Pasadena etc flyover, its one of your best, I sent it to everyone I know.
Rock Garden looks like place Where the Loved Ones was filmed. Johnathon Winters & Rod Steiger...
Micah, can you post the footage of the Heritage Square Museum, it was in the bottom of the shot at the end of the video. It would be cool to see it from the belly camera!