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for "Pastime") is an
unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
Highway 17 Express
The Highway 17 Express is a regional bus service in the San Francisco Bay Area, operated by Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, Santa Cruz Metro as part of the Amtrak Thruway network. The route connects Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz a ...
. 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
Area code 831 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for a small region of the U.S. state of California. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises Monterey County, San Benito County, and Santa Cruz County. The area code w ...
Curtis Cup
The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match. It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and The R&A and is contested by teams representing the United States and " ...
team in 1932. Marion Hollins came to California in the mid-1920s to work for
Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a Electrical telegraph#Morse ...
, owner of the
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach is an unincorporated community on the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey County, California, United States. The small coastal residential community of mostly single-family homes is also notable as a resort destination, and the home of ...
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 the ...
Alister MacKenzie
Alister MacKenzie (30 August 1870 – 6 January 1934) was an English golf course architect whose course designs span four continents. Originally trained as a surgeon, MacKenzie served as a civilian physician with the British Army during the ...
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
William Wilson Wurster (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1973) was an American architect and architectural teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, best known for his residential desig ...
to build her home, which still stands today at 33 Hollins Drive inside Pasatiempo. She also brought in
Alister MacKenzie
Alister MacKenzie (30 August 1870 – 6 January 1934) was an English golf course architect whose course designs span four continents. Originally trained as a surgeon, MacKenzie served as a civilian physician with the British Army during the ...
to design a course at Pasatiempo Golf Club, 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 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 ...
s, a park and a beach club on Monterey Bay, her ambitious plans were thwarted by the
Great Depression
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. 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 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
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, the CDP covers an area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km), all of it land.
Demographics
Pasatiempo first appeared as a
census designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in the 2010 U.S. Census.
The 2020 United States census reported that Pasatiempo had a population of 1,093. The population density was . The racial makeup of Pasatiempo was 916 (83.8%)
White
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, 5 (0.5%)
African American
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Pacific Islander
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, 21 (1.9%) from other races, and 96 (8.8%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 85 persons (7.8%).
The whole population lived in households. There were 422 households, out of which 114 (27.0%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 305 (72.3%) were married-couple households, 25 (5.9%) were
cohabiting
Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not legally married live together as a couple. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. Such arrangements have become incr ...
couple households, 57 (13.5%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 35 (8.3%) had a male householder with no partner present. 58 households (13.7%) were one person, and 36 (8.5%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.59. There were 339
families
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(80.3% of all households).
The age distribution was 179 people (16.4%) under the age of 18, 53 people (4.8%) aged 18 to 24, 182 people (16.7%) aged 25 to 44, 332 people (30.4%) aged 45 to 64, and 347 people (31.7%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 53.8years. For every 100 females, there were 100.6 males.
There were 455 housing units at an average density of , of which 422 (92.7%) were occupied. Of these, 376 (89.1%) were owner-occupied, and 46 (10.9%) were occupied by renters.