Pasadena : Flagstaff to Go Up Again
The city’s 68-year-old War Memorial Flagstaff, which broke and sustained foundation damage in the October, 1987, Whittier earthquake, will be re-erected in its old location on the northeast corner of Colorado and Orange Grove boulevards.
The Pasadena Board of Directors on Tuesday approved the estimated $173,000 project. The city will be out of pocket $14,961 and will be reimbursed $158,039 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A recommendation by the Cultural Heritage Commission to move the pole to the northwest corner of the intersection was rejected because the cost would have been $207,960, with the city paying $77,961.
The pole, topped by a solid bronze eagle, was designed by Bertram Goodhue, the nationally known architect who also designed the Caltech campus. It is listed among the city’s cultural heritage landmarks.
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