Whittier! I was southbound on the 605 right at the 10 when the Whittier Narrows earthquake hit, on my way to work in So. El Monte at an industrial supply company I worked at. I drove an old Ford van with a loose steering box, and I didn't even notice the shaking, while drivers in cars with tight steering were pulling over to the side of the road and diving out of their cars. LOL. Took me a minute to figure out what was happening, which I did right as the announcement came over the radio station I was listening to. Got to work and all of our warehouse shelves had tipped over. There were about a million nuts and bolts and pipe fittings and grinding wheels and such strewn all over the warehouse floor.Richbirdhunter wrote:I'm from Whittier, my best customer Otis elevator had an office in Pasadena. I did very well on my house as well. It's great to be mortgage free but my property taxes are steep.The Annoyed Man wrote:Yep. And I fulfilled the tradition, and watched the game too. The best part of the game? Every time the aerial camera zoomed out, and I could see my old Pasadena house, just a ten minute walk from the stadium. The sale of that house in 2006 when I moved to Texas, for 3 times what I had paid for it just 7 years earlier, permanently changed the arc of my life for the better. Haven't had a mortgage since.Richbirdhunter wrote:Watch the Rose parade eat leftovers take a nap
Yep, I sure like to watch that Rose Bowl game.
That's my biggest memory of whittier.
