Eye Level Pasadena

If you have an instrument tucked away that you’ve been wanting to play again, the South Pasadena Adult Concert Band looks like fun:

Now recruiting players (click here to see larger)

Guitars

Lots of guitars

Guitar closeup

South Pasadena Music
1017 Fair Oaks Ave
South Pasadena, CA 91030
(626) 403-2300
southpasadenamusic.com

Family Fair tree at night

Looking west

Looking east

There are a pair of west facing benches near this bridge where you can sit and watch the sun set over the freeway.

Gold Line crossing at Mission and Meridian in South Pasadena

Dansko keychain charm

This picture is for Chez Shoes’s Dansko Love flickr group. I got a pair of Dansko mary janes at Lucha’s in South Pasadena a couple of years ago, and when I did they gave me this, too.

South Pasadena farmers’ market

Ginger

Thursday night, Erin, Superspark and I went to the South Pasadena farmers’ market and then to Firefly for their farmers’ market night sangria and tapas. Is anyone out there a regular at this market or Pasadena’s Saturday morning market? I like them both, but for different things. The Saturday morning market has more variety, but the Thursday night market is a good after-work place to go and relax.

erin’s kitchen: Farmers’ Market, Firefly, and Friends
Superspark: Tapas at Firefly Bistro

South Pasadena farmers’ market
Thursday nights, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. (in winter, it ends earlier at around 7:00 p.m.)
Meridian Avenue & Mission Street

South Pasadena Music

South Pasadena Music feels like a third place. It’s a great place to buy an instrument and to take lessons, but it’s more than a store. It feels good to be there. It feels kind of like a low key community hub. When I walked in this week, they had a copy of the South Pasadena Downtown Redevelopment Plan on the counter, and people (including me) looked at it and got into discussions about it. It felt like something out of a Ray Oldenburg book.

Kathy of Aphrodite in Jeans likes it there, too.

South Pasadena Music
1017 Fair Oaks Ave
South Pasadena, CA 91030
(626) 403-2300
southpasadenamusic.com