{"id":2562,"date":"2011-04-06T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2011-04-06T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:28:12","slug":"south_pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/06\/south_pas.html","title":{"rendered":"South Pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;re home for awhile, we had a chance to venture out to explore another Los ANgeles &#8220;small town,&#8221; after our trips to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/12\/20\/small_towns_of_la.html\">Calabasas<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/15\/out-on-the-town.html\">Montrose<\/A>. This time, it was another spot we&#8217;d previously visited, but one we hadn&#8217;t really explored: South Pasadena. It&#8217;s a beautiful spot, with lot of independent businesses, picturesque neighborhoods, and inviting parks. We had a great time wandering around and somehow managed to cram three &#8220;meals&#8221; into one morning. We stopped at Buster&#8217;s Cafe for breakfast, had a milkshake from the Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain as a snack, and then visited Mix &#038; Munch for a custom grilled cheese sandwich for lunch; their cereal bar will have to wait until next time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/5593072145\/\" title=\"Baby wants a milkshake... by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5103\/5593072145_63657634e0_b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"Baby wants a milkshake...\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/5593662682\/\" title=\"South Pasadena by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5229\/5593662682_08112ebf1d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"South Pasadena\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sadly derelict, and only recently so, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/Market\/losangeles\/rialtotheatre.htm\">Rialto Theatre<\/A>. Someone needs to refurbish this <A HREF=\"http:\/\/cinematreasures.org\/theater\/20\/\">National Register-listed landmark<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/5593072287\/\" title=\"Rialto, South Pasadena by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5305\/5593072287_470505204c_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" alt=\"Rialto, South Pasadena\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/5593072013\/\" title=\"Rialto, South Pasadena by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5270\/5593072013_daab6a2b3f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"Rialto, South Pasadena\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, this is a typewriter you can pay to use, 50\u00a2 for a half hour. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/5593072079\/\" title=\"Pay typewriter, South Pasadena by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5070\/5593072079_357b648fc2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"Pay typewriter, South Pasadena\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/5593662444\/\" title=\"South Pasadena by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5030\/5593662444_d2544d66fc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"South Pasadena\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;re home for awhile, we had a chance to venture out to explore another Los ANgeles &#8220;small town,&#8221; after our trips to Calabasas and Montrose. This time, it was another spot we&#8217;d previously visited, but one we hadn&#8217;t really explored: South Pasadena. It&#8217;s a beautiful spot, with lot of independent businesses, picturesque neighborhoods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los_angeles","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}