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Old 01-14-2010, 12:50 PM
 
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Just wanted to let everyone here know I've really enjoyed reading this thread, excellent insight from all! Makes me think about what it would've been like back then, especially with great surfing and probably cleaner water back then!
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Old 01-14-2010, 01:09 PM
 
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Just wanted to let everyone here know I've really enjoyed reading this thread, excellent insight from all! Makes me think about what it would've been like back then, especially with great surfing and probably cleaner water back then!
Oh, how I loved anything with the name "Hobie" on it.
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Old 01-14-2010, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Oh, how I loved anything with the name "Hobie" on it.
Wish I still had my Hobie little league team baseball uniform.
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Old 09-21-2011, 02:08 PM
 
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what a flashback! yep! I was there too! Mon Ami, the Mecca, the golden bear, prison of socrates, Harmony, Rendezvous, Retail and Disneyland. I remember a good friend who attended SHHS with Jackson Browne used to tell me about great songs he had written while still in school. Who knew? What a talent - I love his music! And Steve Noonan! I loved his music back then but lost touch. Great to see his name on this site. My first date with my husband was the Mon Ami - what a great start to a relationship that began in 1965 and still going strong. I'm certain it was the music!
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Old 09-21-2011, 03:07 PM
 
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what a flashback! yep! I was there too! Mon Ami, the Mecca, the golden bear, prison of socrates, Harmony, Rendezvous, Retail and Disneyland. I remember a good friend who attended SHHS with Jackson Browne used to tell me about great songs he had written while still in school. Who knew? What a talent - I love his music! And Steve Noonan! I loved his music back then but lost touch. Great to see his name on this site. My first date with my husband was the Mon Ami - what a great start to a relationship that began in 1965 and still going strong. I'm certain it was the music!
Ya just stole my thunder with The Golden Bear (Glen Yarbrough for one), The Rendezvous (Jan & Dean) and The Prison of Socrates (Jose Feliciano).

Was also at Disneyland for its grand opening. Sailed in the Flight of the Snowbirds. The 1950s and 60s in Newport Beach and all of Orange County - the Paulo Drive-In in Costa Mesa, as well as Bob's Big Boy and Shakey's Pizza, driving through orange groves to get anywhere, John Wayne, Andy Devine and other notables meeting for coffee at the Goofoffers at Richard's Lido Market, Roy Rogers, Dale Evens and family summering on Lido Isle, et al.

Truly a magic place and time in what was then truly the Golden State.
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Old 09-22-2011, 07:57 PM
 
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Yellis Dairy. The SQR. Coach Van Horbek. Sinkin' Lincoln. The plunge. Sammy Lee's swim school. Walker's restaurant. The Water Wheel. Duane's Pirate Cavern. LaPalma Chicken Pie Shop. Pickwick Hotel. Fox Anaheim. Sampan Chinese restaurant. Timpane's pizza.

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Old 09-24-2011, 01:16 AM
 
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Don't forget my favorite hole-in-the-wall burger joint in downtown Orange - Fike's. Great burgers, kick-a$$ chili and root beer served in a frosty mug that would give A&W a run for its money any day. Across the street was the Orange Theater. I could walk in with $1.00 in my pocket, catch a double-feature (with a cartoon) and stuff myself sick with drinks, popcorn and candy and still walk out with change in my pocket.
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Old 09-25-2011, 12:37 AM
 
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Yellis Dairy. The SQR. Coach Van Horbek. Sinkin' Lincoln. The plunge. Sammy Lee's swim school. Walker's restaurant. The Water Wheel. Duane's Pirate Cavern. LaPalma Chicken Pie Shop. Pickwick Hotel. Fox Anaheim. Sampan Chinese restaurant. Timpane's pizza.

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Now there's a name I haven't thought about in a long time. Was it on Brookhurst or Euclid? My parents loved that place.

I used to go to the Chicken Pie Shop a lot when I worked in Anaheim, along with The Red Vest(is that right?) on Euclid and La Palma, Copper Penney on Katella, Mama Cozza's on Ball Road in Anaheim . . .

I love reading these threads too. I grew up with an orange grove six houses down the street, and had to walk by many going to school. When I first got my car, I would go for a "drive in the country" on Chapman into Santiago Canyon, and the only things really there were trees - hardly any houses. When driving down to San Diego, there was absolutely nothing between, what, El Toro and San Juan Capistrano? I think we camped once at Featherly Park, that too was out in the country, no homes in the canyon, lots of farms and ranches.

And that is one of the reasons I left SoCal. People can talk about how great it is now, but back then it wasn't crammed with millions of people like now, there was still such a thing as open space, it wasn't concrete and asphalt for miles and miles in every direction. It was truly the constant physical and psychological crush of humanity that I needed to get away from, and I did. But it makes me sad that I had to leave my home because it became too crowded and too expensive.

Sorry, but nostalgia is just that, makes you happy, makes you sad.
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Old 09-25-2011, 01:41 AM
 
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This is what I mean, this is how it was driving to San Diego, open space as far as you could see:

5 Freeway at El Toro Rd, El Toro, circa 1960s | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/3401997117/in/photostream - broken link)

Lots of great pictures in this Flickr photo group of Orange County: Flickr: Orange County Archives' Photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/ - broken link)
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Old 09-26-2011, 12:05 PM
 
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Now there's a name I haven't thought about in a long time. Was it on Brookhurst or Euclid? My parents loved that place.

Red Vest(is that right?) on Euclid and La Palma,
The Sampan was on Brookhurst. Later they built a shop next to it that sold the Agnew watches remember those?

I can't remember a Red Vest on Euclid and LaPalma. Was it a bar, restaurant?
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