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Southeastern Pasadena refers to the neighborhoods east of Marengo Avenue and Downtown Pasadena, south of Downtown and the 210 Freeway, and west of Eaton Wash. Southeast Pasadena is served by Metro Local lines 180, 267 and 662. It is also served by Pasadena Transit routes 10, 20 and 60 and Foothill Transit line 187.
California's first outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool [8] was added in 1926, when the hotel, formerly a winter resort, began operating year-round. [6] [9] The hotel was later owned by Stephen W. Royce, who sold it to the Sheraton Corporation in 1954. [6] It was subsequently renamed the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel. As a Sheraton, much of the hotel ...
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Pasadena Ave. and California Blvd. Demolished July 27, 1974 for construction of Interstate 710. [8] 2: Pasadena Athletic and Country Club: November 11, 1977 (#77001545) 1978: SE corner of E. Green St. and S. Los Robles Ave. Demolished in 1977 for construction of the Plaza Pasadena shopping mall, which was demolished in 2000. [9]
Pasadena's Washington Theater, currently undergoing rehabilitation, is located at the southeastern edge of the neighborhood. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The theater, which enjoys historical landmark designation, was completed in 1924 and designed by the architect Clarence L. Jay in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.
Billie Burke was a famous Broadway actress and film star who is best known for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Burke was a long-time resident of Rockhaven. [12] Peggy Fears, Broadway actress and legendary Ziegfeld Follies performer-turned-producer who became a real estate financier, died at Rockhaven in August 1994. [13]
The K-8 campus was originally the site of an 1887 shingle-style church. In the 1950s, the architecture firm Smith and Williams designed two buildings on the site. They built a children's chapel (1954) and a Sunday-school building (1956). Garrett Eckbo designed the grounds. The children's chapel won an AIA Award of Merit in 1954.
The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center opened in 1990 in the former site of the city's defunct Brookside Plunge. The project was funded with a $4.5-million city loan and $2 million in private donations, including a crucial final $430,000 from Pasadena neighbor, Eugene Scott, who was also Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center and one of its founding directors.