East Pasadena two-fer

City slips $4.7 million tip into Peppermint Gardens' G-string to quit town.

Personn's Nursery wolf cries are answered with long-term lease agreement.

Does anyone else remember the Pasadena that was home to the Pussycat Theater? That strip club up on North Lake Avenue? That adult arcade in the basement of what is now, I believe, The Pottery Barn in Old Pas?

I was at a young and impressionable, but for some reason seeing those places and knowing they existed didn't ruin my childhood or set me on the road to perversion. That would come later.

So $5 million to placate prudishness? Oh wait, it was about "negative secondary effects." Unfortunately, our own police department said East Pasadena's other strip club didn't really pose a nuisance.

In Pasadena, when you have a problem, you cut a check.

The moratorium/code revision process was flawed, but what other political solution existed? Acknowledge that property owners may have the right to do something that might annoy most of us?

But that's what that whole other, third branch of government is for.