So I’m staying that the Pasadena Sheraton, which is located next to the Pasadena Convention Center, an elderly, sprawling complex with a substantial amount of both space and parking below ground.<\/p>\n
And I know this particular parking structure well because, well, this is where the Justice Squad faced off against the Alien<\/em>esque horror of the Sh’hurdik<\/em>.<\/p>\n Back in the day, when I lived in SoCal and worked in Pasadena and was running my Justice Squad supers campaign, the JS was headquartered atop an office building directly adjacent to mine, and I set various battles and encounters in and about Pasadena.<\/p>\n For one particular arc, battling an infamously powerful and nasty alien monster, I set the action in and about the Pasadena Convention Center, drawing on its multi-level layout as a nice way to break up the action.<\/p>\n It was good fun, justice prevailed, the Sh’hurdik<\/em> was defeated … and I think I just parked my rental car next to where the critter lobbed a pickup truck at Our Heroes.<\/p>\n Memories …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m staying that the Pasadena Sheraton, which is located next to the Pasadena Convention Center, an elderly, sprawling complex with a substantial amount of both space and parking below…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11017,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/the_old_architecture_chan.html","url_meta":{"origin":8336,"position":0},"title":"The Old Architecture Changeth","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Apr-07 12:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Pasadena Convention Center\u00a0is undergoing a massive refurbishment.\u00a0 Though the central building will remain largely as-is (on the outside), the flanking building -- 70s-era, low-slung,\u00a0half-sunken bunkers made of pebble...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/pasadena-convention.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":37855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/pasadena-pix.html","url_meta":{"origin":8336,"position":1},"title":"Pasadena Pix","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jun-13 5:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a chance to do some walking about town here in Pasadena. \u00a0Here are a few snapshots. 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