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South Pasadena
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South Pasadena is a small city between Pasadena and LA that keeps its old houses and small-town feel. Around Mission Street are an indie bookstore, antique stores, cafés and restaurants, with a Metro A Line stop right there and a farmers market on Thursday evenings. It shows up in tons of films and ads.
Jasmine says
The financially independent crowd who refuse to follow the herd.
The town's treasure is a 1915 drugstore,
Fair Oaks Pharmacy, a living fossil on Route 66,
with a vintage soda fountain up front and an actual working pharmacy in the back.
Their 12-pound sundae has been in the LA Times,
the 'wake your ancestors' kind of dessert.
'Thank goodness our town bans drive-thrus.
I just bought a $40 organic sourdough and some orange wine;
let's sit on the porch, sip, and silently judge
the people speeding down Fair Oaks.'
Vintage print dresses, distressed Western boots, a reusable tote:
head to toe it looks thrifted, and every piece is actually very expensive.
Independently wealthy and not following the crowd: handmade bread, orange wine and indie bookstores.
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