Cage Elevator

Castle Green, in Pasadena, boasts a clackety-clack traditional cage elevator. Now condos, the former hotel is, hands down, my favorite building in California. My devotion to this dome-laden dream place is as large as its dome-y rooftops.

I find it impossible not to stand across the street and stare, slack of jaw. Impossible not to long to live there. Impossible not to wish I was just a doorknob in some hallway for a day, or maybe that cage elevator, creakily transporting guests and luggage.

You've also wished you were an elevator, right? Or an old hotel doorknob?




Image: Castle Green