- City:
- Altadena, CA
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Edison Elementary School (today’s Odyssey South Charter School) was rebuilt by the Public Works Administration (PWA). It was one of 27 schools in the Pasadena Unified School District to be rebuilt, demolished, or reinforced by the PWA or the Works Progress Administration (WPA) following the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.
Source notes
Robert H. Peterson, Altadena's Golden Years: A Pictoral History of the Early Community
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on December 15, 2013.
Additional contributions by Jessica Berman.
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