Joan Williams  In 1958, then-26-year-old Williams was nominated by her co-workers at City Hall to represent Pasadena as Miss Crown City,...

Ralph Riddle (1916-1990) became the Pasadena Police Department's first Black officer in 1946. His father, Reverend John Morton Riddle,...

In 1886, Pasadena was just the second city incorporated in LA County. (Los Angeles of course was the first.) In 1892, six years after its...