Located at 913 Meridian Avenue in South Pasadena, California, Meridian Iron Works c.1890 is now a museum, South Pasadena Historical Museum. The structure has a kind of false front typical of the frontier wild west. Back in the day this two story redwood building was a general store and as time went on it functioned as a hotel, ticket office, telegraph station, bicycle shop, chapel and a school. In1943 became a foundry know as Meridian Iron Works. San Gabriel is four miles to South Pasadena so Dick definitely was in close proximity of Meridian Iron Works and passed it frequently. Dick’s interpretation is maybe of the 1940s view, weathered and stoic. The building looks to be a work horse on Sunday waiting for Monday.
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