Rose Bowl

Watched my first alma mater UCLA upset Cal in the Rose Bowl ... and of course, seeing the occasional overhead shots of the area brought flashes of memory of growing up in Pasadena, a great place to be in the late 40s and 50s. All those fruit trees in our yard! All those orange groves surrounding the city! I bet Dad, getting out of the Navy, thought he'd bought a house in Eden. Two decades later the neighborhood was removed for a freeway.

The PTA sponsored an annual Football Circus in the Rose Bowl, all the schools of all levels playing in the Rose Bowl, East against West, a huge community fund-raising affair, always quite a night. And all those kids getting to play in the granddaddy of bowls.