Eastside · Neighborhood
Temple City
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Temple City is a small SGV city known for its camellias and an annual Camellia Festival parade. Las Tunas Drive and Rosemead Blvd have lots of Chinese restaurants and dessert shops. The residential streets are quiet and things close early.
Jasmine says
The 'Good Girl' camellia quiet zone.
This city goes wild just once a year:
the Camellia Festival has run since 1944, older than the city itself;
every last weekend of February, first graders are crowned king and queen,
handmade camellia floats parade down Las Tunas Drive,
and twenty thousand people come for a three-day carnival.
Then, the other three hundred sixty-two days:
'After 9 p.m. in Temple City,
it's so quiet I can hear the neighbors one street over sighing.
The worst traffic here
is outside the elementary school at 3 p.m.'
Rush hour here? 3 PM at the elementary school pickup line.
A quiet camellia town that goes to bed at 9 p.m.
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