A Bird in Hand: Historic SoPas Photos Available Online

Warning: You might lose yourself for an hour, a day, a week, if you start paging through the historic South Pasadena images available at Online Archive of California. The collection stretches from 1875 to 1990. You can find images of the old Raymond Hotel, the first South Pasadena streetcar, the Rialto during its salad days, and lots and lots of ostriches.

According to Hometown Pasadena, "The South Pasadena Public Library staff has spent years digitalizing historical photos ..." Read more and see images of the infamous Cawston Ostrich here.