Friday, November 29, 2013

Memories of Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, and Garden Grove




Thanks for the fun!


  1. I wish I knew your name. I also went to Doig jr.high, and lived on Brookhurst and Hiawatha the next street over from you. I was born in 1950.

  2. My first apartment was on Keel Street in the Buena Clinton area in was mainly bikers, hippies and Marines from LTA living off base. We added an "O" to the street sign and it was KEEL-O for a long time...

  3. I live a few miles from Santiago HS near Mile Square Park, I used to live at West and GG Blvd. around 2000. The JITB is still there. I don't remember the Winchell's. The Bob's was on Harbor and Chapman? The Del Taco became a Boston Market around 2000; it's now a Bank of America. Denny's is still there. The Loves Steak House is gone. ("When you're in Love's, the whole world's delicious") The electronics store (Sav-on Electronics?) is gone as well. Lucky's Grocery is now an Albertson's. Didn't there used to be a car wash there? I think there was a cleaners on the SW corner of Harbor & Garden Grove Blvd. There was also a musical instrument store across the street from there. Was the Sambo's closer to Disneyland?

    Shame on you for sneaking into Disneyland, I'm going to report you = ) .

    I would love to go back an do some of this stuff again. If I did, I take a nice camera with me and take pictures of everything.

    BTW, the DW on Harbor is still there if you can believe that. It's now across from a Toyota dealership.

  4. I lived near Mile Square Park, but I remember the area rather well. The Bob's your thinking of is on Harbor south of Chapman, right? It's now a Coco's, and has been for some time. I don't remember the Sambo's or Winchell's (though I do remember the chains), but the JITB, and Denny's are still there. The Sa-von Electronics is gone as of about 10 years ago. I'm remembering a cleaners on the south side of Garden Grove Blvd, west of Harbor facing GG blvd. There was also a musical instrument store across from that on GG blvd. Both are long gone.

    The Love's Steak House has been gone for about 15 years now. ("When you're in Love's, the whole world's delicious"). The 22 fwy has been widened. The Del Taco became a Boston Market, and is now a Bank of America. Lucky's is now Albertson's. There was a plaza on the NW side of Harbor right after the start of the bend that had a supermarket, but I can't remember the name of the Market.

    Belisle's (The pink restaurant on the west side of Harbor, before Chapman) was put out of business in 1995. They used to have a guy standing there to wave people in, as I remember. I think all of the homes that faced Harbor in that area are gone too.


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