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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Union printing office — the frame building on alley opposite rear of the 

 Natural History store, and famed in later years as the ' ' Cheap John res- 

 taurant," or "blind pig," with illicit whisky kept hidden under the floor, 

 etc. The estimated cost by the competitors varied from $15,000 to $30,000. 

 When the trustees came to vote on their preference among the nine different 

 plans submitted. Magee and Bristol favored the one signed "Justitia," 

 which proved afterward to be Harry Ridgway of Pasadena, but Washburn 

 preferred the one signed " A point within a circle," which on opening the 



WILSON HIGH SCHOOL. 

 Architecture, Italian. E;rected 1SS7. Cost $30,000 ; 10 rooms ; 425 seats. 



sealed envelopes proved to be J. M. Stewart of San Diego. How- 

 ever, no action could be final in the matter until approved by the county 

 superintendent, who was at this time J. W. Hinton. He examined the 

 plans carefully in detail, and decided that as a whole — for size and style of 

 building, size and placing of rooms, arrangement for ventilation and light, 

 for egress in case of fire, the chaste and elegant external appearance, etc. — 

 the plan by Mr. Stewart was the preferable one. The trustees finally con- 

 curred in this view, and steps were taken at once to erect such a building — 

 the one now known as the Wilson High School. 



