Yesterday, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, my partner and I decided to walk around Sierra Madre, a town about 22-ish miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, in the San Gabriel Valley, adjacent to Pasadena, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It's a cute little town. The place has retained its small-town atmosphere, and doesn't even have any traffic lights within its city limits. That author Anaïs Nin lived in Sierra Madre. The 1956 film version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was filmed here.
I took some photos... here, take a gander:
A war veteran memorial.
It seems a lot of older communties in SoCal really like to display and glorify war weaponry.
Sierra Madre's old city hall and fire station. I don't know what the building is being used for now. The current Sierra Madre Civic Center is a very 1970s complex down the street from here.
This is a pretty good ice cream place.
View from a Mexican restaurant. The food is pretty good here.
This place makes their own chips fresh and in-house every day.
The restaurant was nearly empty when we first walked in. More customers started arriving as we started eating our food.
Annoying group of cyclists.
A late 1970s or early 1980s Porsche. I like the way these look, and they remind me of being a kid.
A cute house...
... with its garage.
Anaïs Nin's house.
She lived on a corner.
Anaïs Nin's neighbor's house.
She lived in the hills, near a canyon.
Orange trees in the yard.
Whimsical cottages.
A footbridge over a babbling brook.
Mary's Market, a cute little market and cafe.
I wouldn't mind living in this cute little number.
My partner and I went to Mary's Market and got iced teas, and drank them outside.