El Centro de Accion Social

How many times have I driven by this brightly-painted building at the south end of Central Park? I can't count 'em. It's not smart to drive and take pictures at the same time. But it's easy to get a shot when the circumstances are right: there's a train coming, traffic is stopped, and you happen to be stuck right across from the building.

This is El Centro de Accion Social, "dedicated to providing opportunities for low income individuals and families to become self sufficient and to provide culturally sensitive programs to those in need of services, especially in the Spanish-speaking population of Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley." (I got that from the website.) They've been there, in the same building on Del Mar, helping folks for 45 years.

I don't know when the paint job happened but I admire it, and I hope the scaffolding means touch-ups and restoration, as opposed to painting over it.