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COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 19, NO. 49
George Fasching Leads Campaign to Get Denny’s to Fire Up Historic Van De Camp Windmill BY TERRY MILLER
The original Van de Kamp windmill, seen here on Monday evening at sundown, may soon be in motion again if George Fasching has anything to say about it, and he does.
Van de Kamp’s Holland Dutch Bakery, founded in 1915, was a Los Angeles institution for much of the twentieth century. Its trademark Dutch windmill appeared on its bakeries
and coffee shops across the region, but today only one windmill survives intact, atop a Denny’s on the corner of Huntington and Santa Anita avenues. According to LA Con-
servancy, the building was completed in 1967 and was designed by Pasadena architects Harold Bissner and Harold Zook. It features a large update of the company’s Dutch windmill sitting
atop the building’s circular folded-plate roof. You have to hand it to former Mayor of Arcadia, George Fasching: Not only does he keep our horseless carriages shining brightly
Random Memories of the Sierra Madre Rose Float Association Part Two of a Five-Part Series
while en-route to a Day at The Races, but he’s always on top of what is good for the business community atlarge, specifically downtown Arcadia. Whether its polishing
- Photo by Terry Miller
our community pride, running for political office, mildmannered George Fasching knows you have to go to the top of the food chain to get SEE PAGE 22
Temple City Woman Perishes in House Fire
BY JOHN GOVORCHIN Now let’s talk about float building. My first experience was in December of 1966. We worked in a tent that was erected the day before Thanksgiving. Jerry Atkins erected the temporary power pole ahead of time and arranged for the power supply. He further installed electric lights in the tent the same afternoon it was erected. Others placed the Chevrolet Corvair chassis and the welding equipment into the tent. We had only a rendering to guide us in building the float.
First we had to extend the chassis front and back and on both sides. It was interesting because the parking lot that we work on sloped from north to south, and the float was positioned to be driven west. We had to work day and night because we only had one month to do everything, including the flowering, which only allowed about three weeks for construction. The Corvair engine was air-cooled and we never overheated or
SEE PAGE 18
One temple city woman perished in a fire Monday evening. - Photo by Landon Jensen, www.landonjensen.com
The Sierra Madre Rose Float Association is one of the few non-commercial builders of a rose float. - Photos by Terry Miller
A woman was found dead Monday night inside a Temple City home that was partially destroyed by fire, according to LA County Fire
Dept. The fire broke out shortly before 8:30 p.m. SEE PAGE 19