Pre-smart stuff and a 100 years of the Pasadena Library's innovation it has seen a lot.

"The Kennedy house had a separate entrance and was open from 2-5 p.m. daily. That is where Ethel Joan Neal, 89, would spend many afternoons checking out books for patrons alongside her aunt, Ethel Blakesley Hargrave, who served as one of the community’s first librarians starting in 1926"
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/pasadena/article/Unimagined-growth-changes-mark-Pasadena-17261721.php

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