1926 Harold Parker panoramic photograph

Parker was a gifted and sought after photographer of the day and a member of the golf club until he passed.

This is a large format, wide angle photograph producing an amazing resolution across a broad view. Beginning at left we see the San Gabriel range and its western edge diving into the Arroyo Seco.  The sparsely housed alluvial fan of Altadena shows the rural atmosphere the course was rooted within.  Professor Thadeus Lowe's famous incline railway can be seen in the mountains left center as a stripe running up the side of Echo Mountain, the top of which had a destination hotel and zoo and Alpine Village.

The photo shows the 13th and 14th holes where, ironically, Parker would collapse and take his last breaths while playing a round with other members in 1930, just four years after he captured this and one other view upcoming. Be sure to zoom in on these and move them about, they are amazing photographs.