News of the Arroyo
Title: | Arroyo Seco Landmark? |
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Date: | 2008-01-26 |
Summary: | January 26, 2008 - Editor Larry Wilson considers the aspects of naming the Arroyo Seco an historic landmark. |
Author: | Larry Wilson |
Publication: | Pasadena Star-News |
Content: | One of the interesting aspects of the request by Pasadena Heritage to have the entire Arroyo Seco declared an historic landmark is that there is already an ongoing return to historicism underway at Brookside Golf Course, the money-making aspects of which are one of the sticking points for city officials who weren\'t so happy about promoting the designation. City Council members and staff worry that a blanket landmark designation would inhibit any changes not only at the Rose Bowl but at the golf course - courses, actually, as there are 36 holes in two layouts - which could affect revenues that support the small deficit run by the Rose Bowl. But until our golf writer Larry Morgan wrote a story for Thursday\'s sports pages about the new bunkers going in at Brookside, it\'s been awhile since the paper has mentioned the ongoing plan to actually return Brookside to a design more in keeping with its historic past. Course architect Billy Bell had a signature look in the \'20s and \'30s: His traps featured finger-like outcroppings of sand rather than big boring ovals. The effect is like the natural bunkers of linksland Scotland. The new bunkers are a return to that. Still have to make up my mind about that landmark business, though. larry.wilson@sgvn.com http://www.insidesocal.com/publiceye |
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