Eastside · Neighborhood
San Marino
About
San Marino, just south of Pasadena, is an affluent, almost entirely residential city of big homes on low-density, tree-shaded streets. The Huntington is here, and Lacy Park is where locals walk. There's barely any commerce; quiet is the point.
Jasmine says
The ceiling of old money.
How gentle is the gatekeeping here?
Even the park charges admission: Lacy Park's thirty acres of perfect lawn
cost non-residents money on weekends, and there really is someone at the gate collecting.
(Weekdays are free, old money's charity hours.)
Fun fact: General Patton grew up here,
and his father was one of the city's founders;
every post on the rose arbor has a donor's brass plaque.
'My parents paid cash for this place for me,
so I'd never have to sit in Westside traffic.
The property tax is higher than my startup's annual revenue,
but at least the neighbor's gardener is quiet before 8 a.m.'
A Loro Piana cashmere sweater, straight white pants, The Row Margaux,
and the point is: not a single visible logo anywhere.
The IG only posts corners of the Huntington Library gardens.
Peak old money: super low-density homes, century-old shade trees and quiet gardens.
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