There are so many good restaurants, bars and coffee houses in the greater Pasadena area nowadays. I'm pretty unsentimental about the old ones that have gone kaput--with a few exceptions. For instance, I'm still mourning the loss of The John Bull on Fair Oaks, which was my local pub for many years. It ceased to be... Um, five or six years back. Monahan's on Lake Avenue in Pasadena is long gone, too.

Monty's Steakhouse, which decades ago I nicknamed Monty's Snakehouse, is still there. I'm unable to find a decent graphic of their sign at Google.

Buster's coffee house is mandatory when I'm in South Pas. I'm off to do a Google image search. ;-)