Macchio was cast in the Francis Ford Coppola-directed coming-of-age crime drama The Outsiders.

has been reduced to ash and rubble.Pasadena was still pretty segregated back then.

For some – or many – the question is what will replace the town we knew.Having seen basically no one in the vacated neighborhood for several days.We have chatted several times over the last week.

each gathering spot or local place of business.We sipped 50-cent slushies from the Stop Go and then hopped across the street to Websters Pharmacy.

Thats almost certainly a key reason my family settled there.

to ogle its rather large toy department.MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS / Rafu ShimpoIn this years Rose Parade.

there was a day of celebration in Pasadena.his family was forcibly removed from their home and eventually landed at the concentration camp in Poston.

The float is so fitting to his heritage.was one of the donors whose faces appeared on the float.