Scotts Valley
Scotts Valley is a small city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about thirty miles (48 km) south of downtown San Jose and six miles (10 km) north of the city of Santa Cruz, in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mount ...
Santa Cruz Metro
Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (SCMTD), or simply Santa Cruz METRO, provides bus service throughout Santa Cruz County, California. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
Santa Cruz METRO also operates the High ...
and the
Highway 17 Express
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. Pasatiempo sits at an elevation of . The 2020 United States census reported Pasatiempo's population was 1,093.
The ZIP Code is 95060 and the community is part of area code 831.
History
Pasatiempo was founded by Marion Hollins, winner of the 1921 Women's U.S. Amateur Golf title and captain of the US Curtis Cup team in 1932. Marion Hollins came to California in the mid-1920s to work for Samuel Morse, owner of the Pebble Beach company, and given responsibility for establishing
Cypress Point
Cypress Point Club is a private golf club located in Pebble Beach, California, at the northern end of the Central Coast. Its single 18-hole course has been named as one of the finest in golf, best known for a series of dramatic holes along th ...
golf club. After
Seth Raynor
Seth Jagger Raynor (May 7, 1874 – January 23, 1926) was an American golf course architect and engineer. He designed approximately 85 golf courses in about 13 years, his first in 1914, at age 40. His mentor was Charles Blair Macdonald, the creat ...
died, she hired Alister MacKenzie to design the course. MacKenzie gives her credit for designing Cypress Point's famous par 3 16th hole.
After Cypress Point, Marion Hollins set out to build her own golf course and sports center, and on January 12, 1928 she announced that she would be building a sports and real estate complex on land just outside Santa Cruz, CA, calling the area Pasatiempo Estates. She hired noted architect William Wurster to build her home, which still stands today at 33 Hollins Drive inside Pasatiempo. She also brought in Alister MacKenzie to design a course at
Pasatiempo Golf Club
Pasatiempo Golf Club is an 18-hole golf club on the West Coast of the United States, located in Pasatiempo, Santa Cruz County, California. Designed by the famous English architect Alister MacKenzie, the course is famed for its breathtaking scen ...
, which opened in September 1929 with a match featuring Bobby Jones MacKenzie established his home in Pasatiempo, which still stands along the 6th Fairway of the course on Pasatiempo Drive.
Pasatiempo Golf Club
Pasatiempo Golf Club is an 18-hole golf club on the West Coast of the United States, located in Pasatiempo, Santa Cruz County, California. Designed by the famous English architect Alister MacKenzie, the course is famed for its breathtaking scen ...
is located in the community.
Although Marion Hollins' plans for Pasatiempo originally included a steeplechase course,
bridle path
A bridle path, also bridleway, equestrian trail, horse riding path, ride, bridle road, or horse trail, is a trail or a thoroughfare that is used by people riding on horses. Trails originally created for use by horses often now serve a wider r ...
s, a park and a beach club on Monterey Bay, her ambitious plans were thwarted by the
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
. In November 1940, she left Pasatiempo in a shakeup of Pasatiempo Estates and moved to Monterey, where she died of cancer. Today,
Pasatiempo Golf Club
Pasatiempo Golf Club is an 18-hole golf club on the West Coast of the United States, located in Pasatiempo, Santa Cruz County, California. Designed by the famous English architect Alister MacKenzie, the course is famed for its breathtaking scen ...
remains a Top 100 Golf Club, and the development still has the original clubhouse (now called the "Hollins House"), a swimming pool, and tennis courts.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km), all of it land.
Demographics
The
2010 United States Census
The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators servin ...
reported that Pasatiempo had a population of 1,041. The population density was . The racial makeup of Pasatiempo was 925 (88.9%) White, 5 (0.5%) African American, 6 (0.6%) Native American, 34 (3.3%)
Asian
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Latino
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* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
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of any race were 85 persons (8.2%).
The Census reported that 100% of the population lived in households.
There were 423 households, out of which 90 (21.3%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 284 (67.1%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 22 (5.2%) had a female householder with no husband present, 19 (4.5%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 13 (3.1%)
unmarried opposite-sex partnerships
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, and 6 (1.4%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. Seventy-five households (17.7%) were made up of individuals, and 42 (9.9%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46. There were 325 families (76.8% of all households); the average family size was 2.74.
The population was spread out, with 170 people (16.3%) under the age of 18, 58 people (5.6%) aged 18 to 24, 159 people (15.3%) aged 25 to 44, 372 people (35.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 282 people (27.1%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 53.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.5 males.
There were 449 housing units at an average density of , of which 90.8% were owner-occupied and 9.2% were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.9%. 89.5% of the population lived in owner-occupied housing units and 10.5% lived in rental housing units.