Riding in the wind blows
Cold is fine, especially when the sun is out. I can throw on some long sleeves, maybe a set of knee warmers or long pants, and I’ll be plenty warm once I start moving. But the wind? NO. WIND BAD. That means I’ll probably get farther behind in miles until it warms up, which means weird, short videos for a bit.
The Rose Bowl was built in 1922, twenty years after the first “Rose Bowl” game (originally called “The Tournament East-West Game”). Since 1923 only one Rose Bowl game was held somewhere else: in 1942 people were afraid it would be an easy war target, so they moved the game to Duke University in North Carolina. Duke lost the game.
This was the first time I rode around the stadium, and I learned one important thing: go clockwise. If you go clockwise you get to ride on a path around the park; counterclockwise and you end up on the regular road.
The Monkees filming Head.
Lots of movies have been filmed at the Rose Bowl, including mainstream stuff like Yes Man and Cheaper By The Dozen (the 2013 Steve Martin version), but also some odd and/or less remembered stuff, like:
- Head (Monkees is the craziest peoples)
- High Anxiety
- Wild in the Streets
- Harold Lloyd’s 1925 silent The Freshman
And many music artists have played here. When Depeche Mode was at their peak they had a massive concert at the Rose Bowl.
Other bands:
- U2
- Journey
- *NSYNC
- Beyonce
- Jay-Z
- Eminem
- Rihanna
- One Direction
- 5 Seconds of Summer
- Kenny Chesney
- Coldplay
- Green Day
- Taylor Swift
- Ed Sheeran
- The Rolling Stones
- BTS
…and twice KIIS-FM’s Wango Tango, which had a ton of muscial acts. My favorite list is the one from 2003 that has Bowling For Soup as the first/headline band and KISS and the last band, below such noted musical luminaries as Jennifer Love Hewitt, O-Town, and Paris Hilton. No shame in that.