South Lake is a neighborhood in

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. It is Pasadena's premier shopping district and home to the

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. South Lake is bordered by

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to the north, the Pasadena–

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border to the south, Hudson Avenue to the west, and Hill Avenue to the east.

Landmarks

The shops on the east side of South Lake Avenue are notable for being accessible from the street and from Shoppers' lane, a half-mile long alleyway that runs alongside Lake Avenue. Also located on Lake Avenue is a large

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department store built in early 1940s modern architecture. At the center of the neighborhood is Caltech, Grant Park, and Tournament Park.

Education

South Lake is served by Hamilton Elementary School, McKinley School, Wilson Middle School, and Blair High School.

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and St. Philip the Apostle School are private schools in the area.

Transportation

South Lake is served by

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lines 177, 267 and 662. It is also served by

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routes 10 and 20.

Notable residents

Due to the location of Caltech, South Lake has been home to many in the scientific community. *

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

, physicist *

Robert A. Millikan Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the Elementary charge, elementary electric charge and for his work on ...

, physicist * Jack Parsons, rocket scientist *

Amos G. Throop Amos Gager Throop ( ; 1811–1894) was an American businessman and politician in Chicago, Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. Most famously he was known for being a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War. He served as a Chicago alderma ...

, Caltech founder, former Mayor of Pasadena. *

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