Not nearly as impressive as the last place, where's this?
Also anyone want to guess why I'm taking a picture of it?
The name of the community here is derived from "high valley" via two different routes in two different languages. One of the languages I'm pretty sure was never spoken in this area.
And the weather is typical for mid-afternoon in late December.
The road we're on might seem a little watery, and the occupants of the building might be the right people to control this.
60 years ago, the building was a hospital.
Continued from #213.
The Valley this community is named after is a much more famous place. If you travel South on this road, you'd intersect an event which happened two days later and was broadcast to 217 countries.
Look for this place between two East coast cities.
No takers? It's now a free turn.
The city is Altadena, CA. That's named Alta for higher than, and Dena after Pasadena, it's more famous neighbor. Pasadena was named for "Valley" in the Chippewa native American language. As far as I can work out, Chippewa are from the Great Lakes region, so this language has probably never been spoken in this place. Pasadena was created by developers from that area (I think, the explanations are not clear).
The one thing I do like about Southern California is the weather in Winter. This is typical weather for 2 days before new year, I think you can make out my reflection and I'm wearing shirt sleeves. The angle of the sun might eliminate the Souther hemisphere from your guessing.
As I mentioned in another reply, the architecture is very reminiscent of 1950's California architecture. Though brick is rather rare, as it tends to fall down in earthquakes unless reinforced.
The road is Lake Avenue, which is suitably watery for a clue. The building currently seems to call itself the "Piper professional center", so the pun is the pipers could control the water with their pipes.
As I said, 60 years ago it was a community hospital and my mother in law's obstetrician was based here, so my wife was born here. Which is what we were doing here taking photos, as part of the "Nostalgia Tour".
As mentioned Pasadena is the more famous neighbor and further south on Lake Ave, you intersect Orange Grove Blvd, which is where the Rose Parade takes place. The Rose parade was two days after this photo was taken, and the reason why we were in SoCal. Wikipedia mentions that that year it was broadcast to 217 countries.
This place is just South of Boston St, and a block and a half North of New York Dr, for the East coast cities.
