"Quackery, Snake Oil, and Flim-Flam Medicine" on Thurs., Sept. 16, is the second in a series of four salons presented by the Pasadena Museum of History at the Altadena Country Club. (The whole series explores the cultural world of Victorian/Edwardian era Pasadena as featured in the museum's current exhibition on Eva Scott Feynes). Historian Walter Nelson looks at patent medicine, phrenology, and other delights. PSN's Mickie Mills has a feature article here and you can find out more on Thursday afternoon's presentation here at the museum website.
As Altadena waits to see who will win the bid to be our town-wide trash collector (it's still in process and it's the government at work -- be patient!), the folks in the Chaney Trail neighborhood are finding it ... well, hard to bear. The residents there are rightly concerned about whether the franchisee-supplied trash cans for their neighborhood will be bear-proof. And that leads to this amusing video from an Ontario, CA company where they match up their trash containers vs. some captive grizzlies. It's pretty darn impressive.
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The morning jolt: quackery, and trouble bruin
"Quackery, Snake Oil, and Flim-Flam Medicine" on Thurs., Sept. 16, is the second in a series of four salons presented by the Pasadena Museum of History at the Altadena Country Club. (The whole series explores the cultural world of Victorian/Edwardian era Pasadena as featured in the museum's current exhibition on Eva Scott Feynes). Historian Walter Nelson looks at patent medicine, phrenology, and other delights. PSN's Mickie Mills has a feature article here and you can find out more on Thursday afternoon's presentation here at the museum website.
As Altadena waits to see who will win the bid to be our town-wide trash collector (it's still in process and it's the government at work -- be patient!), the folks in the Chaney Trail neighborhood are finding it ... well, hard to bear. The residents there are rightly concerned about whether the franchisee-supplied trash cans for their neighborhood will be bear-proof. And that leads to this amusing video from an Ontario, CA company where they match up their trash containers vs. some captive grizzlies. It's pretty darn impressive.
