Roses bloom everywhere in Pasadena, which is fitting, since the city’s most celebrated events, the Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade, are named in their honor. Just outside Los Angeles, Pasadena offers manicured lawns, pristine residential streets, and a welcoming pedestrian charm that give this Los Angeles County town an almost idyllic feel. It’s no wonder that Pasadena is often Hollywood’s favorite stand-in for classic suburban America in innumerable films and TV shows, including Back to the Future and Father of the Bride.

Although Pasadena was never the center of Old Hollywood, the stars of the era found refuge throughout the city and the remnants of that era still remain. While the charm of the Hollywood Walk of Fame has faded over the decades, and many of the Old Hollywood film and radio studios now house other businesses or churches, Pasadena is a place where the charm of that era can still be found if you know where to look.

Pasadena’s architectural glamour, old-fashioned haunts, and historic homes conjure the era. If the glittering scene of the early film industry is your travel itinerary inspiration, here are ways to find that Old Hollywood glamour in the Crown City.

The Langham-Huntington Hotel

Formerly called Hotel Wentworth, the Langham-Huntington Hotel in Pasadena is over 100 years old and feels like your very own personal country club. The interiors of the hotel are decorated with ornate details and gold-framed oil paintings. The sprawling hotel, with over 300 rooms, features views overlooking the cityscape and acres of lush gardens. The ideal place to host an afternoon tea party or enjoy a sunset martini while listening to a live jazz band, just visiting the Langham conjures the best of the Old Hollywood era.

Pasadena Playhouse

In a region where the best actors reside, it’s no wonder that the Pasadena Playhouse has a reputation for being a long-standing, revered playhouse. This playhouse has welcomed plenty of A-list actors to the stage over the years. Once a theater school, the playhouse trained legendary actors, including Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. The range of types of shows that have been featured here, from musicals to comedic one-woman shows to Shakespeare, and everything in between, has made the playhouse a Southern California staple. Even the building, which was built in the 1920s in a Spanish Colonial Revival style, is worth the visit alone.

Today, the 600-plus seats welcome people from all over for plays, revivals, musicals, concerts, and readings. Grab a glass of wine at the outdoor concession in the courtyard before finding your seat, and afterwards, several award-winning neighboring restaurants are a great place to grab a late dinner.

Gamble House

Pasadena is renowned for its remarkable historic architecture, and the Gamble House stands as one of its most iconic examples. Designed by great architects Charles and Henry Greene (their firm is commonly referred to as Greene & Greene) for David and Mary Gamble of Procter & Gamble in 1908, the house is known to be one of the best examples of the Arts & Crafts Movement.

Today, the house is over 100 years old, and its renowned architecture and interiors can be enjoyed by visitors. Hosted by the Gamble House Conservancy, walk-through tours are available to anyone who wants to see the sprawling porches and artistry wood designs of the era. As a visitor just walking through the house, you can feel the history within the home’s walls, which has seen 100 years of dinner parties, family gatherings, and visitors from all over the world.

Pasadena Antique Center

Enjoy strolling through the busy streets of Old Town Pasadena the way a silver screen starlet might have, with a vintage compact mirror and silver cigarette holder, by visiting the Pasadena Antique Center. A great place to find relics from that time period, with plenty of vintage Hollywood charm, antique lovers and vintage shoppers could spend half the day exploring this sprawling gem of an antique market.

Rose Bowl Flea Market

As the largest antique and vintage center in Los Angeles, the Pasadena Antique Center is only rivaled by one other antique market (which also happens to be located in Pasadena), the Rose Bowl Flea Market. On the second Sunday of every month, over 20,000 visitors gather to explore this vast and incredible market, which features around 2,500 vendors. For Old Hollywood lovers, the Rose Bowl Flea is a great place to shop for everything from Art Deco-era cosmetic cases to Hollywood Regency furniture to vintage gowns.

The Raymond 1886, also called 1886 Bar

The Raymond Hotel, a winter residence for the wealthy built in the 1880s, has quite a past. The original Victorian hotel only survived for less than a decade before burning to the ground. Rebuilt in 1901, the new hotel was flooded by the wealthiest of the wealthy –names like Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie– and became the place to be by the roaring twenties. The hotel often hosted Hollywood movie stars, including Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, during that era. By the Great Depression, the Raymond Hotel was destroyed, and what remains, the caretaker’s cottage, is now a cocktail bar where you can sit outside on the Craftsman’s patio and enjoy a martini with plenty of allure.

Los Angeles visitors commonly seek the lure of the Old Hollywood scene, but finding that charm can be difficult when navigating busy Hollywood. For those who want to channel that glamour, Pasadena offers everything from vintage finds to really great cocktails. A visit to the Crown City is an ideal vacation away from the modern era.