The Rose Bowl may mean big-time college football to millions of people, but to locals, the Rose Bowl is just one feature of the large Brookside park situated in the bottom of the Arroyo Seco. (Arroyo Seco means dry stream bed, which the area is--most of the year. The "stream" flows in a concrete channel.) At Brookside children learn to swim at the Aquatics Center. Golfers play early morning rounds at the Golf Course. All day long cyclists whiz by joggers and walkers on the streets that circle the park. And then there is the gigantic Flea Market held in the Bowl's parking lot once a month. Further down the Arroyo where native plant restoration projects have been underway, there are miles of hiking trails.
Many of the homes on the eastern edge of the Arroyo were built in the early 1900s. On the western side are three neighborhoods -- Linda Vista, Anandale, and San Rafael -- which were not originally part of Pasadena. Because they were annexed at a later date and were somewhat remote until bridges were built across the Arroyo, they remained mostly farm land for decades.
In the Arroyo Seco behind the Rose Bowl, to the
north, is a neighborhood of homes that is locally called...well,
"behind the Rose Bowl". These homes in Pasadena and
Altadena are quite small and
the neighborhood is ethnically diverse. |
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