Deeds, Bruce Almighty, Old School, The Ugly Truth, and License to Wed are just a few of the notable films shot on location in South Pasadena. Such movies as Freaky Friday, The Terminator, Gone with the Wind, Halloween,Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, American Pie, The Girl Next Door, Legally Blonde, 13 Going on 30, Back to the Future, Mr. South Pasadena can often be seen in motion picture productions with its beautiful tree-lined streets and "anywhere in America" feel. There is also a 300 meter children's run for kids 10 and under. The 5K is run on flat sidewalks and roads around town, but the 10K (6.2 miles) includes some difficult hills. Racers from kindergarten to age 80 are invited to participate, including a wheelchair event. On the first Saturday of December every year, South Pasadena Booster Club hosts an annual 5K/10K run around South Pasadena known as the "Tiger Run", after the SPHS mascot. The Farmer's Market has become a tradition in the historic Mission-West District of South Pasadena on every Thursday from 4pm to 8pm. It has been featured in many films and commercials, most notably Robert Altman's The Player and more recently in Scream 2. It went out of business on Augbecause of low profits. The Rialto was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, having narrowly missed being torn down that year. It is one of the last remaining single screen cinemas in the country. Of historical relevance is The Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain also the Rialto Theater in downtown South Pasadena is a unique blend of Spanish Baroque and Egyptian stylings and was built in 1925. "Mom and Pop" merchants populate the business district, and the Mission West area is a part of the original U.S. Because there are very few stucco-clad Spanish Colonial houses and virtually no palm trees in some parts of the city, South Pasadena is a popular stand-in for Midwestern and Northeastern towns in motion picture and television productions. Some non-native trees, such as sweetgum, are also seen. These include redwood, sequoia, ash, walnut, and sycamore. South Pasadena's streets are lined with numerous species of native California trees. It is 3.42 square miles in area and lies between the much larger City of Pasadena, of which it was once a part, and the metropolis of Los Angeles. South Pasadena is the oldest self-builder of floats in the historic Tournament of Roses Parade. It is located in the West San Gabriel Valley.
As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 25,619, up from 24,292 at the 2000 census. This year there is a lot of green showing.South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Perhaps confused by the long-running California drought? The purple blooming jacaranda along Del Mar Blvd. The jacaranda trees seem not to know what month of the year it is. Both these trees still have quite a few leaves. Jacarandas usually lose most of their leaves just before they bloom. The tree on the right and the one in the center, below, both with light green leaves are Jacarandas. Perhaps the others are waiting until late May. Only some of the Jacaranda trees are in bloom in April, 2015. Even the blossoms on the trees are skimpy in 2015.
Arboretum, visit my Hot Gardens website.)įor comparison… Jacaranda blossoms in 2011. When I took these photos this morning I also noticed that Agapanthus, a kind of lily-like plant, is coming into bloom. The effect is not quite as spectacular as it has been in past years, so I decided to show photos from June 2011 and April 2015. This year–and I suspect it is because of the warm, dry, sunny weather we enjoyed all winter–some of the Jacaranda trees are already in bloom. And every year they bloomed in late May or early June. in Pasadena, lining the street for more than a mile from Arroyo Parkway to Lake Avenue.
(Bits of trivia: Pretoria, South Africa is nicknamed “Jacaranda City” and Jacaranda trees have even been planted high in the mountains in Nepal.)Īt some point, Jacaranda trees were planted along Del Mar Blvd. Back in the late 1940s he encouraged early directors of the brand new Los Angeles Arboretum to go abroad and bring back trees, especially flowering trees, to plant at the Arboretum to test and see if they would grow in our climate.Īmong the trees introduced: the gorgeous jacaranda tree, a native of Brazil and the Caribbean–but now planted in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. Samuel Ayres, to thank for the thousands of Jacaranda trees in Southern California. We have a Westside dermatologist and Arboretum co-founder, Dr.
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A Jacaranda tree in full flower in mid-April 2015
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