“In New York, people are buried in snow,” Charles Frederick Holder said at a Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club meeting in 1889, according to one local history. “Here, our flowers are blooming and o…
It should be no surprise to describe Charles Frederick Holder, who played the key role in the creation of the Tournament of Roses, as a true renaissance man.
And from this meeting blossomed Pasadena’s first New Year’s tournament. The 1890 edition was an all-purpose community fair that featured a variety of sports events and drew more than 2,500 of the city’s population of 4,800. Spectators arrived in an array of carriages and horses decorated with flowers to watch running competitions, horse and mule races, and even a pick-up football game.
Holder spent much of his teenage years in the Dry Tortugas, a series of small islands a couple of hours west of Key West, Fla. His father was assigned as a doctor for American engineers building Fort Jefferson, the island fort on the islands that today is a national park. The remaining years of his life were mostly spent in Southern California where he was an ambitious writer, editing the Californian illustrated magazine and later gained partial interest in the Los Angeles Tribune newspaper.
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