Sunday, June 14, 2009

Gabrielli's Deli & Gilligan's Island Liquor

Janel asks if anyone remembers Gabrielli's Deli or Gilligan's Island Liquor in Placentia...

I grew up in Placentia in the early 1980's. Does anyone remember Gabrielli's Deli and Gilligan's Island liquor store located in the Toy City plaza at the corner of Palm and Valencia? I attended El Dorado High School and worked at the deli during my High School years. A lot of great memories and friend from those days!!

5 comments:

  1. Hi Janel: I remember those places; lived just south of that shopping center. Originally, the "Toy City" store was a "Michael's" supermarket. Michael's was a small OC grocery chain -- there were also Michael's markets in Yorba Linda (now the YL Bowling Alley), Orange, maybe Garden Grove, a few others. I think that Placentia shopping center was called "Palm Center." In addition to the Michael's (later Toy City) store, Gabrielli's Deli, and Gilligan's Island liquor store, there was also dry cleaners AND my favorite place: Leilani's Ice Cream Parlor. The whole center was bulldozed at some point (Late '80s? Early '90s?) and a tract of houses now sits on the site where the shopping center used to be.

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  2. I worked at Gilligan's Island at night, I myself grew up in Placentia. I can remember as a child, Our family would pile in our van and head over to Gabrielli's for a meatball sandwich. There was a time when Placentia was all orange groves and parks, also Golf courses.I have fawned memories of that little town. It was a great place to grow up and live in!

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  3. Yes that was the "Palm Center" made frequent trips to that Toy City before it moved to Rose & Yorba Linda Blvd where the (Safeway, Michaels Crafts) as well as the Dollar Store now.

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  4. When I was a kid, i'd spend my allowance money there to buy candy. :) And I LOVED going to Toy City... it was the biggest toy store around (at the time). Good memories.

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  5. I grew up outside Yorba Linda at Imperial Hwy and Orangethorpe (Fairgreen). I remember when I stopped sucking my thumb, my dad took me to the store/pharmacy? in the Y.L. Michaels and I rec'd a Timex watch w/stretch band (that I still have). There was also a cleaners there as well. I still live in Y.L. (since 65'/age 7) and I remember how it all used to look. No longer a quaint little town of 5000, that's for sure!

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