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.
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.
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.
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!
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).
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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."
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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....
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😀
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!
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.
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)
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. 💜
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.
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!!
@@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.
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 love Pasadena. First city I moved to when I came from Germany in 2005. Lots of memories and good times. Btw your mark at 11:21 min isn't correct. That wasn't Lake Ave. Couldn't tell you what the right name was though out of my head :/ Love the videos! - NO WAY! You test cars as well? Haha that's awesome! I used to do that as well. Remember accelerating onto Arroyo Pkwy in the SLS AMG, M5s, R8s etc. Haha!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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..!!
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?
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.
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!
Had some time on R22’s and Jetrangers ages ago and am familiar with the sound they make. Your cute and tiny Enstrom makes a distinctive sound from the ground so i had a feeling that was u i saw. Been a subscriber since u started your channel. Stay safe my friend and fellow rotorhead! 3 thumbs up👍👍👍
GREAT VIDEO! I would second the idea to check out the ruins of the old hotel on Mount Lowe in Altadena. Also, The second time the graphic for Lake Ave. is shown, it's actually Raymond Ave. I believe.
Micah, hopefully not out of your range and I realize you have a long list. But a flight between Corona and Riverside along the 91 would be pretty cool! At least for those from that area. It has grown a lot in the last 20 years.
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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.
RARELY see a day THAT clear. PRETTY. The mountains are incredibly clear. Another rarity down there. WOW!
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.
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.
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!
yomikeew i had the reaction. Micah is great dude.
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).
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.
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! :-)
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
Great flyover. I love the Huntington. Its an art museum and Botanical garden. They also do lots of research and art conservation.
Thank you for doing this flyover Pasadena! It really means a lot! You rock!! Wooohoo!!😎
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!
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."
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
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
Absolutely Beautiful Area! Thank YOU for this most lovely aerial tour!
grew up in South Pasadena 2 blocks from Pasadena freeway and retired from JPL so thats my favorite. It was a great life!!
City of Roses 🌹
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 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.
when I was a kid in 70s we were aloud to go into Santa Anita stables when the track was closed. it was awesome!!
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.
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!
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!
Finally! SP, Home of the Tigers, TY Micah! First freeway I drove on was the 110. Unlike any other freeway in the state.
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.
OMG You flew over my city in the beginning and I'm so happy. Thank you for this.
My pleasure!
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!
HAHA I like where your head's at: "Forget the golf course, look at THIS HOUSE!" xD
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
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.
Another great video of the LA Area. Thanks Micah
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....
Same here. SPHS, went to PCC for junior. Now I live where Micah grew up.
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😀
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!
Enjoyed Pasadena very much. Thank you.
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.
Thanks for the video! My wife and I lived there for a year and that’s the best time that I’ve had!
Beautiful day for a flight!
So cool you can see Catalina Island to the left of Los Angeles @ 22:00
3:18 the parking lot of Wally World in National Lampoons "Vacation"
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.
Wolfe Burgers and the Handlebars Saloon were my favorite memories of Pasadena.
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)
We missed the Little Old Lady from Pasadena!
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. 💜
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.
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!!
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.
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!
Awesome! At 11:22 you have Raymond Ave marked as Lake Ave. : )
Very cool Born and raised in Pasadena 😎🙂
Great job! There were so many cool favorite places in this one! Thank you!
I used to live next door (south) of the Gamble House. Great neighborhood!
Thank you Mica for another GREAT video with equally great commentary. Stay safe
Beautiful clear day, lovely scenery. Thanks, Micah!
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
What fun, Pasadena is my old stomping ground, learned to fly and buzzed houses in that area! Great blast from the past! Thank you!
I love Pasadena. First city I moved to when I came from Germany in 2005. Lots of memories and good times. Btw your mark at 11:21 min isn't correct. That wasn't Lake Ave. Couldn't tell you what the right name was though out of my head :/ Love the videos!
- NO WAY! You test cars as well? Haha that's awesome! I used to do that as well. Remember accelerating onto Arroyo Pkwy in the SLS AMG, M5s, R8s etc. Haha!
What a trip seeing my house and neighborhood from the air. Maybe fly over chantry flats, gmr or angles crest ?
You start the video with Santa Fe Dam out to your left... nice spot for helicopter training!
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!
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.
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.
Love these longer ones Micah. Thanks for sharing with us
Favorite thing about Pasadena? The Little Old Lady. :D
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.
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.
Good scouting photography!!!
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!
Very nice video . Mary Babiec
I have been to Santa Anita many times
grew up just south of the rose bowl. good times
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...
Pasadena P.D. used to fly Engstroms. Had an aquaintence who used to live next door to the heliport.
Please do Glendale next time you're in this area! Americana area would be cool.
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..!!
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?
The Huntington Library is lovely. They have a restaurant in the Chinese Garden that is great!
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.
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!
I like the flock of green parrots in Pasadena! they are very loud
You flew over the Pasadena Police heliport next to the Arroyo, I was sure you were going to mention it,
Had some time on R22’s and Jetrangers ages ago and am familiar with the sound they make. Your cute and tiny Enstrom
makes a distinctive sound from the ground so i had a feeling that was u i saw. Been a subscriber since u started your channel. Stay safe my friend and fellow rotorhead! 3 thumbs up👍👍👍
My home town!
Awesome video as always Micah!😸😸
GREAT VIDEO! I would second the idea to check out the ruins of the old hotel on Mount Lowe in Altadena. Also, The second time the graphic for Lake Ave. is shown, it's actually Raymond Ave. I believe.
Ahhhh thank you for finally making this! I can see my house in this vid :')
-'And you can drink while golfing'.... LMAO. Go Micah !
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Micah Muzio cheers! From ‘some dude from Brazil’
Micah, hopefully not out of your range and I realize you have a long list. But a flight between Corona and Riverside along the 91 would be pretty cool! At least for those from that area. It has grown a lot in the last 20 years.
Gamble House!
I never heard of the gamble house before, I'm gonna learn about it!
DOC BROWN!! GREAT SCOTT!!