{"id":11124,"date":"2021-09-20T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2022-01-27T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:00:13","slug":"el-monumento-a-van-halen-podria-estar-listo-antes-de-fin-de-ano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/la-comunidad\/el-monumento-a-van-halen-podria-estar-listo-antes-de-fin-de-ano\/","title":{"rendered":"El monumento a Van Halen podr\u00eda estar listo antes de fin de a\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Eddie Van Halen (derecha) y David Lee Roth de Van Halen se presentan en el escenario del Jones Beach Theatre el 14 de agosto de 2015 en Wantagh, Nueva York. (Foto de Debby Wong. Shutterstock)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Efforts to create a memorial commemorating legendary rocker and former Pasadena resident Eddie Van Halen are continuing to move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a city memo, the Pasadena Center Operating Co. has approved a plaque honoring Van Halen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Pasadena Center Operating Co. recently reviewed and endorsed the language and location of a memorial plaque to be placed in honor of the late legendary guitarist, Eddie Van Halen, a member of the award-winning band Van Halen, on their site,\u201d states the memo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plaque would be installed near the city Convention Center, which is next to the Civic Auditorium, where the band played a dozen times between 1975 and 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to one group raising money for the memorial, several parties have signed off on the plaque, including the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe city, the band, and the Pasadena Civic Operating Co. have all signed off on our project and fabrication is underway,\u201d said Randa Schmalfeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasadena 4 Van Halen, a local group, has raised money to fund the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are looking forward to sharing the city\u2019s plans for unveiling our plaque as soon as they are finalized,\u201d said Schmalfeld. \u201cWe are hearing that our plaque will likely be installed within the next several weeks!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group has raised nearly $7,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was reported that Van Halen\u2019s likeness and the likeness of his guitar could not be included on the plaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is anticipated that the fabrication of the plaque will take several weeks and will be ready for installation and a dedication sometime around Oct. 6, the anniversary of Van Halen\u2019s death from throat cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Van Halen family moved to Pasadena in 1962, and Alex and Eddie attended local schools where they were bullied because they were mixed race and spoke little English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a 2017 interview with Smithsonian Magazine, Eddie Van Halen remembered his first friends in America were Black and protected him from local bullies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite those incidents, Van Halen said he was grateful for his experience as an immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cComing here with approximately $50 and a piano, not being able to speak the language, going through everything to get to where we are, if that\u2019s not the American dream, I don\u2019t know what is,\u201d he said in the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following his death, the city received several requests and suggestions from the community for a memorial to honor Eddie Van Halen\u2019s local connection to Pasadena, as well as the impact that his artistry had on music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The placement of monuments, including memorial plaques, is under the administrative jurisdiction of the city manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monuments must meet criteria for appropriateness, compatibility with the surrounding environment, and impacts on the location\u2019s existing use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Efforts to create a memorial commemorating legendary rocker and former Pasadena resident Eddie Van Halen are continuing to move forward. According to a city memo, the Pasadena Center Operating Co. has approved a plaque honoring Van Halen. \u201cThe Pasadena Center Operating Co. recently reviewed and endorsed the language and location of a memorial plaque to be placed in honor of the late legendary guitarist, Eddie Van Halen, a member of the award-winning band Van Halen, on their site,\u201d states the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14086,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions\/14086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}