Back in the day (as in “1800s”) well-heeled Easterners would head west to escape the brutal winters. (And quite frankly, who would blame them?) One of the most popular places to spend the winters was Pasadena (it helped that there was a major station on a major railway line). And one of the hotels there is shown in this circa 1901 photo: Hotel Green. Construction started in 1887 and over the next 16 years it grew to three separate buildings and included the bridge across Raymond Ave, which became a popular place to watch the annual Rose Parade which ran along Raymond at the time.
Here’s another view from circa 1914:
There is no longer a bridge across Raymond Ave, but in this 2020 satellite photo, we can see what looks like a remnant of that.
Back in the late 1980s, I looked at an apartment for sale here. It was a bachelor listed at about $110,000. (I’m sure it would be much, much more now.) I decided not to buy, but I’ve always been glad that I had a chance to see the interior of the building.
A plan for a new structure to be built on the Castle Green’s surface parking lot is in the works… https://la.urbanize.city/post/developer-dusts-early-20th-century-plans-project-near-pasadena-central-park
That’s nice – but where do people park?
Residents park in a garage about a block away.
I lived in the hotel on the Green Street side when I was a student at the Pasadena Playhouse 1967-1968.