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Baywood Country Club set to close next month
By YVETTE OROZCO
An era in Pasadena is about to end soon as the Baywood Country Club nears its final closing in December.
With preliminary approval given, a new complex will be built on the Club’s current site at Red Bluff Road and Genoa Red Bluff Road.
The first country club in the Bay Area, Baywood was established in 1954, just in time for the post World-War II generation and succeeding generations to turn it into tranquility central, for civic, social and leisure activity.
The complex includes a golf course, swimming pool, tennis courts, driving range, and facilities that have been used for decades of weddings, graduation parties, banquets, school athletic tournaments.
Baywood has also been the meeting place for several community organizations and will behind a wealth of memories.
“My son had his high school graduation party there,” said Jackie Gaw, board member for the Pasadena Aggie Moms. “It was awesome.”
Gaw, has lived in the Pasadena area for more than 25 years and has attended various events held at Baywood and feels a sense of nostalgia and affection for complex.
“If Baywood County Club would ever close, it would be greatly missed, especially by the Pasadena Aggie Moms because we have a lot of our functions there,” said Gaw, who was planning on attending an Aggie bonfire at Baywood this week.
Events are held in an indoor complex that includes a snack bar and spacious dining room, which has hosted generations of students in celebration of countless achievements – from scholarship presentations and essay contest winners to simply recognizing other good works from youth.
Located near Armand Bayou, Baywood has also provided a vast space for wildlife to roam.
Baywood County Club is a private club, with a dedicated membership that has seen other golf courses, tennis courts and swimming facilities develop in Pasadena over the years, but as all firsts the first have a special significance, Baywood will leave many remember long after December.
“I will be miss just having some place to go, relax, kick back and be yourself,” said Gaw.
With preliminary approval given, a new complex will be built on the Club’s current site at Red Bluff Road and Genoa Red Bluff Road.
The first country club in the Bay Area, Baywood was established in 1954, just in time for the post World-War II generation and succeeding generations to turn it into tranquility central, for civic, social and leisure activity.
The complex includes a golf course, swimming pool, tennis courts, driving range, and facilities that have been used for decades of weddings, graduation parties, banquets, school athletic tournaments.
Baywood has also been the meeting place for several community organizations and will behind a wealth of memories.
“My son had his high school graduation party there,” said Jackie Gaw, board member for the Pasadena Aggie Moms. “It was awesome.”
Gaw, has lived in the Pasadena area for more than 25 years and has attended various events held at Baywood and feels a sense of nostalgia and affection for complex.
“If Baywood County Club would ever close, it would be greatly missed, especially by the Pasadena Aggie Moms because we have a lot of our functions there,” said Gaw, who was planning on attending an Aggie bonfire at Baywood this week.
Events are held in an indoor complex that includes a snack bar and spacious dining room, which has hosted generations of students in celebration of countless achievements – from scholarship presentations and essay contest winners to simply recognizing other good works from youth.
Located near Armand Bayou, Baywood has also provided a vast space for wildlife to roam.
Baywood County Club is a private club, with a dedicated membership that has seen other golf courses, tennis courts and swimming facilities develop in Pasadena over the years, but as all firsts the first have a special significance, Baywood will leave many remember long after December.
“I will be miss just having some place to go, relax, kick back and be yourself,” said Gaw.
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irishblue wrote on Nov 20, 2008 12:13 PM: