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• Let us not forget the ol' A&W Hambuger Stand on Westminster Blvd,
  in Westminster.

  By  Rick, at July 08, 2007 6:00 PM  

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• Two hamburger stands are at the top of my list. First, the In and Out on south Main St. in Santa Ana. Even the teachers from SAHS ate there. Al made the best french fries...Also there was an A&W drive through somewhere on south Bristol in the early 60's. We would stop there to get a frosty mug on the way back from the beach. Anyone remember where that was?
  
  Bob

  By  Anonymous, at July 15, 2007 11:38 AM  

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• Big-Tee Burgers near the corner of Beach and La Mirada Boulevard...

  By  Doug Mason, at July 22, 2007 11:36 AM  

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• A&W on Bristol was right next to Mater Dei High School. Does anyone remember Yummy's Hamburgers on 17th in Santa Ana just off of Bristol. Use to go there as a kid and the burgers seemed like they were at least a pound each. Like I said I was young and maybe just a big imagination.

  By  Santa Ana Valley 1967, at July 25, 2007 7:31 PM  

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• "World's Best hambergers" or was it called 'World's Greatest Hamburgers". I remeber it being kind of a run-down place, you could eat outside under a big tree, dirt parking lot. It was in Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills area. It wasn't Anahiem hills then though. Anybody remember?

  By  Anonymous, at July 30, 2007 2:41 PM  

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• I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, there was a Chili Burger place called Tommy's at Warner Ave and Magnolia Ave in Huntington Beach. There was also a Family Fun Center there as well.

  By  Steve, at August 01, 2007 9:23 AM  

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• I lived in southeast Santa Ana
  by Madison elementary from 1958 to 1966 the year I got married. I attended Lathrop and graduated from SAHS in i964. The best hamburger stand in OC was Al's In and Out. A number of my friends worked there and I remember the bags and bags of spuds that made the best skin on fries in the world. The A&W by Mater Dei had a dairy across the street or nearby,
  so you had a real fresh aroma when eating there.

  By  Foster Ouellet, at August 06, 2007 11:26 AM  

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• To Anonymous on July 30th... you remember the original Knowlwood's Burgers... and yes, it's motto was "World's Greatest Hamburgers" and they were damn good. Sloppy, big, juicy, a place truckers liked. Always follow the lead of the truckers, that's my motto concerning great coffee shops or burger stands or whatever. Anywhere. The hash browns are going to be just right.
  
  It was out in the open then, your memory serves you right. I used to drive out there in the mid-70's in my old broken down orange volkswagen... figuring I I had the right to drive out there from Long Beach because my Volksy was orange! Plus I bought a hell of alot of burgers out there. Double on the cheese and double on the onion.
  
  The first sign that it would disappear was when the city opened a theater and shops area across the street. I had a date that day, when those shops opened. I had not been out there for a few years.
  
  We were to see the opening of "Dick Tracy" sometime around 1990, the Warren Beatty version... and all I kept ranting about was the damn proliferation of suburbia and "entertainment centers" before the houses were even built.
  
  That theater and it's cosmetic commercial food places were alone out on that corner, in the midst of almost nowhere. Except Knolwood's. And then, I made my statement that ended my relationship.
  
  "The fraud kills the original".
  
  She dumped me. The movie was good, by the way. Had Mandy Patinkin in a very small but great role. I had some recompense. His few minutes made the film for me. But that is another story.
  
  It was then I knew that beautiful open area, with the great hamburger shack that survived forever... was going to die. And it did.
  
  Quickly.
  
  It does survive, by name only, in Irvine and in Fullerton, I think on Harbor by the freeway, and even near the original location.
  
  But that original location... I hear your pain.
  
  Doug Mason
  Anaheim

  By  Doug Mason, at August 15, 2007 5:14 PM  

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• How about Bob and Jean's (?sp) near Chapman and Newport. My first video games experience, there...Pong!!

  By  Anonymous, at August 30, 2007 3:16 PM  

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• Up in Fullerton, our place was Hillside Burgers, located on Brea Boulevard just past where Spadra (now Harbor) and Brea forked. There was a small indoor eating area but we mostly ate in our cars. Their patty melt was one of the most popular items. Hillside basically served kids from Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton Union High School and Fullerton JC. It probably began around 1950 and lasted almost until 1970, I think. It was on the west side of Brea Boulevard and now there's a nursing home on the spot. Right across from Hillcrest Park, too.

  By  Anonymous, at October 02, 2007 9:28 AM  

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• I grew up in Garden Grove in the 50's and 60's and the greatest hamburger "joint" in town was Zesto's in the same parking lot as the Grove Theatre.
  
  Years later I figured out why I like "in and out" so much when I return to SC. It is that it reminds me of the burgers at Zesto's.

  By  Anonymous, at October 07, 2007 10:02 AM  

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• Bob's comments regarding Al's In and Out on main and the old A&W are remarkable. I grew up in Santa Ana and Al's was the place. As a little kid of 8 or 9 I would walk to Main Street from Linda Way (Monte Vista School) to visit the Library, Santa Ana Hobby Shop, SAR, Jerry's Flying Hobbies and so much more in that little corner around Main and McFadden. Try explaining that there was a great In and Out before the current In and Out and you can find out who is one of the SA/OC oldtimers! But there was a couple of others, remember Fabulous Eddys? and what was that other big drive in on main, down near Edinger?? Russ's Burgers?? And the Zoo for a summer treat out near Corona Del Mar and who can forget the original Orange Inn and the Smoothies out on the coast highway across and down from the hourse ranch.
  
  Thanks for the mems!
  
  Dan Bleskey
  SAV 72
  SAC 75
  CSUF 81

  By  Anonymous, at November 11, 2007 5:30 AM  

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• I grew up in Santa from about 1955-1976. Most of those years living on McFadden and Bristol. There was a Hamberger stand on Bristol behind our house sort of caticorner. They had a jukebox and me, my sister and our boyfriends, all of us rangeing from ages 11-13, would sit and listed to that jukebox play Purple People Eater and some of the other oldies!
  Also, across Bristol was an A&W Rootbeer stand!
  In my later years after I married, we would go to The Barn in Coste Mesa, where they would cut your tie if you wore one! Ha! They had the "Best steaks ever!"
  Those were the "Good Old Days!" Rose Tapp

  By  Anonymous, at November 13, 2007 4:57 PM  

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• The A&W Root stand was on Bristol & McFadden. Rose Tapp

  By  Anonymous, at November 13, 2007 4:58 PM  

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• To Dan B: I grew up in Santa Ana (1947 - 1985) and we lived on So. Olive right off of Edinger. Jerry was a good friend and I worked with him later in life. I also was good friends with the Palmers (Frank's Hobbies on Main, across from Pep Boys). Al's Quick Snack (In-and-Out) was at the top of the list, but Mel's on the coast hiway was where you showed you car. I live in the South Carolina now, and we have a Zesto's a block away.

  By  Anonymous, at November 20, 2007 5:15 PM  

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• I lived in Santa Ana 1963 thu 1966 our family used to buy burgers at a hambuger stand on the northeast corner of Main and Edinger. It was a great place real salty fries. I cant remember the name can anyone help?

  By  brian, at November 24, 2007 8:26 AM  

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• At Brookhurst and Chapman in Garden Grove was the Pink Spot. True to it's name it was pink. Great hamburgers! In high school we loved A & W drive-in on Chapman. It was the place to meet.

  By  Nancy, at December 07, 2007 12:25 AM  

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• Bob Irember cruzin spots,shell station on main and st.andrews,in and out,faducias 76 on main and walnut,oscers on 1st,orange circle orange,bean hut on harbor,hillside fullerton,harveys boiler firestone blvd. mels mcCarther and coast hyw. befor it was zoo,and the biggest cruz of all NEWPORT pinn.during spring break,the line was backed up into costa mesa.

  By  Bob, at January 05, 2008 11:59 AM  

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• Armstrong's, 1960's in Anaheim, on Lincoln Ave (near Anaheim High School) they had the BEST Burgers, Fries, and Cole Slaw. People would be standing in line around the block to get in. Anyone remember this one??? Sue

  By  Sue, at March 06, 2008 2:40 PM  

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• Garden Grove fast food digs: Patio Pantry @ West Street and Chapman. Was next to Winchell's Donuts, with the Pronto Mart in back. Mardi Gras Liquors across the street. Hamburger Handout, next to Leonard's. Somwone mentioned the Pink Spot - we'd get fish & chips there on Fridays maybe once a month (Catholics = no meat!) Taco Lita on GG Blvd. Don't forget the old Helm's Bakery Trucks that cruised around the neighborhoods. panel trucks with those sliding racks of donuts. Thriftymart at Orangewood and Harbor Blvd. GEM "Membership" Store; White Front; Zody's; JJ Newberry's; Belisle's Restaurant; Van's Shoes and Harveys Barber Shop @ Habor & Chapman. Anyone remember Andres Field - where we played Little League baseball - that was at Harbor and Chapman, too (other corner.)How bout the old Orange County Plaza @ Chapman & Brookhurst? Penney's; Copper Penney Restaurant; Elams for Men; House of Lords (where I bought my first bottle of Jade East cologne...) Denno's Records; Western Auto...I could name most of the stores there in 1960. Chicken Delight!

  By  Anonymous, at April 04, 2008 12:44 PM  

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• Anyone remember A & W burger on ball & brookhurst in Anaheim? YUM! I loved going there. All the burgers were wrapped in foil, ice cold frosty rootbeer in GLASS mugs and walk up service as you sat in your car. Those were the days!

  By  Anonymous, at April 17, 2008 10:12 AM  

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