Re the Rose Bowl--
The stadium is in an Arroyo (small valley) on the western edge of Pasadena. Overlooking the Arroyo and Bowl on the west ridge are multi million dollar homes, although I'm not sure if those homes are still in Pasadena, or the tonier La Canada (pron. Canyada)/Flintridge.

As CalTech doesn't play football any longer, tenancy has been taken up my Alma Mommy, UCLA. For a while City Fathers tried to lure an NFL team to the Rose Bowl, but the citizenry and the NFL nixed that. That works fine for me, as I'd rather have the maximum games tved into LA area.

30 years ago the Pasadena downtown area was really shabby; it has since been rehabbed and the Old Town area has been a real shopping and eating destination.

In addition to Cal Tech, Pasadena is home to Fuller Theological Seminary; I shop the book-store, there, as they have a good selection of Judaica and Near Eastern archaeology.

And before the schism, Pasadena was home to Herbert Armstrong's World Wide Church of God, and affiliated seminary. The property is being converted into mixed use shopping and residences aafter laying fallow for perhaps 15 years.