Friday, June 26, 2009

When Magnolia Didn't Go Through to PCH

Melanie asks if anyone remembers when Magnolia St didn't go all the way to PCH...

Does anyone remember when Magnolia in Huntington Beach did not go all the way through to PCH? I actually liked that, but I suppose that it wasn't so good for all of the traffic on Brookhurst and Newland!
Not having lived in Huntington Beach, I don't remember that. But in Santa Ana, you used to be able to take Flower St all the way from the south to the north. But during the 1980s, folks living in that posh area just north of 17th St & Flower, lobbied the city to stop the flow of traffic in their neighborhood. So, at first the city prevented you from taking Flower St across 17th St for only certain times of the day. I think now, it's resistricted all times of the day.

9 comments:

  1. Newland didn't go through to PCH either. Of course, Southeast Huntington Beach was pretty much empty until development started in the 1960s.

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  2. For better or worse, I helped pave that last section of Magnolia.

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  3. Slightly far afield, until the mid-60's, the 5 freeway ended right around the location of today's 57 freeway in Tustin. It was country road from Tustin to San Clemente, as I recall.

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    1. As far as I remember, the 5 extended down to about where Jamboree is today... used to by Myford Rd.

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    2. As far as I remember, the 5 extended down to about where Jamboree is today... used to by Myford Rd.

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  4. Magnolia in HB was also called Cannery until the early 1970s, if I recall correctly. From Westminster northward, it was called Magnolia.

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  5. At first I thought you were talking about Monrovia in Costa Mesa...it used to go all the way through from Victoria to Newport but then they cut it off with barricades to stop the through traffic and it turned into a ghetto.

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  6. That area in HB was basically bean fields, tomatoes and strawberry fields thru the mid 60's. Magnolia ended fefore PCH because of proximity to the power plant. Magnolia was called Cannery in HB as there were canneries there to process the fresh vegies.

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  7. Magnolia use to dead end at garden grove blvd.

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