Who remembers... (Fontana, Orange, Inglewood: to buy, high school, live)

[Fontucky]

The Orange Inn? Here's a crappy scan of an old pic I found in my stuff. Please feel free to use this space post any old pics you might have of anything OC-related.

[DewDropInn]

Me. We used to take all the out-of-state relatives there for a date shake. We put them in the yellow convertible, with the top down in January, and show them we lived in Paradise.

Don't suppose you remember the old root-beer stand that was shaped like a barrel? It was in the middle of an orange grove (everything was in an orange grove back then) in some place like Orange or maybe Lemon Heights. We're stretching back 50 years here, and I was a little kid, so I'm not sure exactly where it was. Don't even know if it was an A&W stand but it was great!

[Fontucky]

Nope, don't remember that. But I would have been a fan, as root beer is my thang. I can remember my Dad holding me up so I could reach into the icy water of the chest cooler at Haneys Market in S. Inglewood (Imperial & Yukon) for a frosty Hires on a hot Summer day.

My grandparents in Windsor Hills, on the other hand, always stocked Shasta root beer in a can. Boooo. No comparison.

Anyway, I'm wandering...

[DewDropInn]

There was also a place that was shaped like an orange and had a big red and white straw sticking out of the roof. Also in O.C.

I have memories of getting a big bottle of root beer from A&W and taking it home. Then we'd have to return the jug to get the deposit back. The root beer had to be guzzled down that day or it would loose it's fizz.

Giant do-nuts. Big statues of guys hovering over the muffler shops holding something like a hammer or a tire. I just saw one of those up in Flagstaff, AZ at Univ. of Northern Arizona and just about broke down in tears. Pitiful.

So did you ever eat at the Nixon bros. hamburger stand on Whittier Blvd?

[Fontucky]

Nope, never did. We seldom left S. County, as there was an old wooden floored, two story J.C. Penny store in downtown Laguna for my Mom to buy us school clothes. It closed down when South Coast Plaza opened up, so that's where we'd so every August for school clothing. They also had a Sears there for my Kenmore loving parents.

At least my Mom didn't make me be a Toughskins kid. She'd buy me real Levi Strauss blue jeans for 5 bucks a pair at the El Toro base exchange.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

There was also a place that was shaped like an orange and had a big red and white straw sticking out of the roof. Also in O.C.

Did you know there's still one of those alongside Rt 66 here in Fontana?

Bono's Historic Orange - Google Search

[CAVA1990]

I remember it. I think that's the one where the LB High School girl was killed crossing PCH to get to it.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

The Orange Inn? Here's a crappy scan of an old pic I found in my stuff. Please feel free to use this space post any old pics you might have of anything OC-related.

Where was that?

[Fontucky]

She must have been chewing gum.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Where was that?

Correction: Where IS that? 15395 Foothill Blvd, Fontana