Thanks!
And I hope you have a great time in LA!
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Photos taken yesterday morning, Saturday, 12.3.2022.
Thought I'd get coffee to go but at another place very close to home, in San Marino---a neighboring town to South Pasadena.
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Every Saturday morning, around 8am-ish, a big group of cyclists always goes through South Pasadena and San Marino.
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And then these two cars pull up and park next to mine. I see these vehicles around town.
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Later in the morning I went to visit my parents for a bit, but before I went to their house I got nostalgic and decided to swing by my alma mater.
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The brother/sister singing duo The Carpenters attended CSULB; Richard graduated, Karen didn't. This theater opened during my last year in college. In my 20s, I attended a 65 millimeter film festival here, and a few years ago my partner and I saw Sandra Bernhard's standup comedy show here.
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I spent a lot of time in this building; my journalism classes were here (I majored in journalism).
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I know these steps well. And when it rains hard, from the bottom of the steps, it looks like a nice waterfall. At the top of the steps you can see a modernistic carillon tower that chimes the time every half hour---or is it every quarter hour? Anyway, it was sculpted by French sculptor Andre Bloc during the 1965 California International Sculpture Symposium, which was held on the CSULB campus, and a result, has many modernistic sculptures on campus. The carillon tower is the last sculpture that Andre Bloc did before he died.
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The Walter Pyramid, which is a multi-purpose arena. It's Long Beach State's home arena for basketball games, and volleyball games are also held here. It was under construction during my last year at CSULB (1993-1994). I've never been inside it.
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Cal State Long Beach has a Japanese garden on campus, not far from where the dorms are. I didn't live on campus, I commuted from my parents' house. Cal State Long Beach is a big commuter school. I did experience what it was like to live on a college campus, though, because I went to UC Santa Barbara my freshman year in college and lived on campus there. I only went to school there for a year before I transferred to CSULB.
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An errand this morning (Sunday, 12.4.2022), I went to Target. Being that it's that "holiday shopping season" right now, it's nice going to Target early in the morning, when there's hardly anyone there.
To get to the Target we go to, we drive through Pasadena's Oak Knoll neighborhood, where filming activity happens every so often.
If anyone's familiar with the 1980s TV show "Benson," this is the house used in the opening credits and establishing shots.
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The Oak Knoll neighborhood, though the demographics have been changing over the years, still kind of exudes "old money."
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Some more "modest" homes.
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This is the house used in the 1991 version of "Father of the Bride" with Steve Martin. In the film, the story is set in neighboring San Marino, but the house is actually in Pasadena.
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Just north of this block is the Target we go to.
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