Pasadena : Group Backs Razing Hotel
A group of Pasadena residents has formed the Yes on the Huntington Hotel Committee to support developer Lary Mielke’s plan to demolish the hotel and replace it with a 300-room replica.
The committee intends to wage a grass-roots campaign to get voters to support Mielke’s plan in the May 19 referendum that will decide the fate of the hotel.
The committee, which is based in the hotel’s Carriage House, is headed by Theodore C. Coleman, a retired businessman, and Daniel V. Hyde, director of the Oak Knoll Improvement Assn. Its honorary chairman is Lathrop K. Leishman, a former president of the Tournament of Roses Assn.
Other members include Joel V. Sheldon, president of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce; former Mayor Donald F. Yokaitis; Stephen H. Mack, president of the Pasadena chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, and Mielke.
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