662 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



a 46-inch Otto wooden wheel. But later in the same year Geo. H. Frost 

 run the streets on a 54-inch Expert Columbia wheel. And next came 

 Geo. W. Glover with another one like Frost's. And the first bicycle race 

 is thus reported by the Valley Union of December 18, 1885 : 



" Geo. W. Glover, Jun., made a good run on his bicycle Tuesday after- 

 noon. lyCaving Lamanda station at the same time as the train, he reached 

 Pasadena station before the train crossed Colorado street on the way out. 

 Distance 3}^ miles; time about fifteen minutes." 



The first drug store was opened in 1883 by Dr. Frederick Sheldon, in a 

 two-story frame building which he erected at the corner of Colorado and 

 Mills streets, and which stands there yet. 



The first dentistry office was opened by John White, from Marshall- 

 town, Iowa, in 1883. He now resides at Redlands. 



Two " first things " of the year 1883 are thus reported in the Union 

 of June 18, 1886 : 



" Ben E. Ward commenced business in Pasadena in 1881. About the 

 middle of February, 1883, he opened an office in R. Williams's building, 

 then just completed, on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado street, 

 and hung out the first business sign ever exhibited in Pasadena. It bore 

 the legend — 



JBEN E. ward] 

 RKAL ESTATE 





In August, 1893, he .started the Pasadejia Chronicle, with his brothers Frank 

 and Walter as associate editors. The Valley Union is the direct continua- 

 tion of that first newspaper ever published in Pasadena." [See page 214.] 



The first lumber yard was started by Col. J. Banbury, October 20, 1883, 

 on the north side of Colorado street, nearly where the Santa Fe Railroad 

 runs now. 



The first wagon built entirely in Pasadena was in January and February, 

 1884. Woodwork by Charles Ryan ; iron work by ly. J. Newlan ; painting 

 by Kline & Zoubrodth ; trimming by J. H. Fleming. It was a platform 

 spring wagon. 



The first bakery was opened in February, 1884, by Fulford & Crozier. The 

 oven was twice soaked through and caved in by excessive rains before it 

 could be finished and housed ; and this delay and loss got the young men so 

 swamped with debt that they soon had to .sell out. It was the same bakery 

 that has been run by Joseph Gantzer for about ten years past. 



The first billiard hall was opened on Saturday, March i, 1884, by 

 Jerome Beebe ; and in a few weeks he added a liquor saloon. [See page 241.] 



The first brick laid in the foundation of the Raymond Hotel was 

 on March 20, 1884. [See page 467.] 



The first robbery in Pasadena was on Sunday night, April 6, 1884, 

 when the safe in R. Williams's store and the postoffice was broken open and 

 robbed of $800. No clue was ever found to the perpetrators. 



