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 Forklift Attachments Pasadena - Pasadena is a city in Texas. With a population of around 149,043, it is the 2nd-largest city within Harris County. It lies in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area and is famous for having the largest volunteer fire department in the US.
Before Pasadena was discovered and inhabited by European people during 1893, the area was inhabited by the Atakapan and Karankawa peoples, mostly the Akokisa. The founder of the original village was John H. Burnett, who named the township Pasadena after the California community since it similarly shared lush and green plant growth. The Spanish were early explorers of the region and charted the bay. The pirate Jean Lafitte dominated the region during the early part of the 19th century until the U.S. Navy forced him out in the year 1821. Lafitte and his crew had hide-outs around the bay and Clear Lake.
Petrochemicals are the basis of the city's economy. Petroleum refining and petrochemical processing are essential industries. The Pasadena Refining System has its head office in Pasadena. Aerospace, health care ad shipping are strong industries. The city benefits from its proximity to the Bayport shipping terminal and the Houston Ship Channel. The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's center for space training, located within nearby Clear Lake.
Visitors can learn about the history of the region at the Armand Bayou Nature Center, the Pasadena Historical Museum and the Bay Area Museum. Pasadena has a thriving arts community such as theater companies and the Pasadena Philharmonic. A rodeo is held there yearly. The Pasadena Citizen is the city's major newspaper.
With many refineries within the region, Pasadena has been called "Stinkadena." One more nickname is "Pasa-get-down-dena"; as a matter of fact, there are quite a lot of country songs with that as their title.
A while ago, Pasadena was known as the Strawberry Capital of the World. The start of strawberry growing in Pasadena started after a destructive flood, when the American Red Cross shipped over one million strawberry plants into the city. The strawberry crops grew abundantly and growers shipped dozens of train carloads of strawberries every day during the height of the season. The Pasadena Strawberry Festival attracts more than 50,000 tourists each year to celebrate the historic importance of the crop. A central road in Pasadena is named Strawberry Road, because it cuts through the former strawberry fields.
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