Dizzying economy deprives Pasadenans of Fast(er) Cars

The Hollywood Rounder does NOT usually slip into tabloid gossip mode. When he passed the former Maserati dealersip on Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena and found that it was closed, he had no choice but to commiserate with the decline of civilization!!!!

The car was in motion as this shutter clicked, leaving a blurred image, which is perfectly poetic as to the hardships to be borne by those, lovers of Maseratis, who are no longer able to purchase their vehicles in Pasadena, California.

Whoa unto us!











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The Wrong Side of the Tracks

Here I am on the "wrong side of the tracks". Strange to be wrong no matter which side one is on, never-the-less, this is a shot from the Gold Line facing more-or-less north towards Pasadena. The San Gabriel mountains are visible in the distant background.

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The Gold Line (a bling for the not so blingy)

I confess I like the train or subway, which in this case is the Los Angeles Metro. Oh duhhh, I must qualify that sentence. I like the Gold Line. It's clean, it goes from downtown LA to Sierra Madre (where was filmed Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The cars are clean, the trip is overground and along the way you get to see Chinatown, South Pasadena, and Pasadena. The Green Line is OK, but only goes to LA's airport and the beach cities, the Red Line, runs only underground from downtown to North Hollywood, although it does stop in Hollywood and at Universal Studios in North Hollywood. The real benefit of the subway is going from Hollywood to downtown in 15 minutes. That's a 30 minute drive in rush hour.

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Bar Celona, Delacey's Club 41 and Pasadena

This is a photo of Bar Celona, a visual play on words for the Spanish city of Barcelona. Sitting on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, it is a modern style establishment.

Some of the Rounder's viewers may ask: "Is Pasadena even near Hollywood?", and the answer must be, Hollywood is continously using parts of Pasadena to shoot movies and TV shows in. For example, Judging Amy sometimes has scenes in a restaurant in Pasadena, Delacey's Club 41. However it is true that one cannot see the Hollywood sign from Pasadena. The purist in me thinks that one has to see the sign, in order to qualify being in Hollywood.

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