Local Pasadena
Happy Earth Day!
As of April 2024, the City of Pasadena has a new and mandatory Organic Waste Disposal Program which is easy to navigate and participate in!
Past Events
Holidays on Holly
Join us Thursday, November 16th and kick off your holiday shopping with the independent retailers of Holly Street, offering drinks, food, music and holiday cheer until 7pm.
Past Events
Doo Dah Parade Kazoo Hand Out at Gold Bug
Doo Dah Parade
Sunday, November 19, 202311:00am–2:00pm
Parade kick-off is located just around the corner from our store at85 E. Holly StreetPasadena, CA 91103
Please join us at Gold Bug between 10...
Past Events
16 Year Anniversary Celebration
This October marks the 16th Year of Gold Bug in Old Town Pasadena, which means we are having a PARTY! Please join us Friday, October 13th from 4pm-8pm to celebrate our anniversary and enjoy a Trunk...
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Opening Event for New Work by Kristina Drake
Kristina Drake debuts her first clothing collection at Gold Bug this evening, featuring hand embroidered jean jackets with bold, colorful and unique nature-inspired patches of her own design.
Past Events
Holly Street Summer Block Party
The Shops on Holly, and Gold Bug, invite you to join them in celebrating the 2023 summer with the Holly Street Happy Hour, August 5. The event starts at 4:00 pm with staggered closing hours from 6...
Press
KTLA video segment "LA Revealed" on LA Unscripted: Gold Bug the Retail Shop
This video aired on KTLA television Jan. 25, 2022 during a segment from LA Unscripted: a daily broadcast focused on the places, people and personalities that make up Los Angeles.
Press
Q & A with Voyage LA "Local Stories"
Gold Bug is perhaps most easily described as a Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities, a collection of notable specimens of human artifact through art and other found objects of natural history presen...