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Memories:
South Coast Plaza
By: Bruce Tovar, 30 Jan.2002
When I was a kid, there wasn't a South Coast Plaza. All major shopping(school
clothes) was done in downtown S.A. There was a Vandermast, Penney's,
Woolworth's. The Hawaiin Night Club another writer referred to was Kona
Hawaii on Harbor and 5th. They had a great show with flame and hula
dancers. It was a bit expensive at about $5 to $8 a plate. Lots of orange
groves, everywhere dotted with strawberry fields.The "blimp base", sonic
booms, Knott's, the Buffalo Ranch, the trained bear ranch, and the monkeys
at Prentice Park are among my other memories.
- Bruce Tovar
By: Anonymous, 24 Jan.2002
The City has sold out! More condos. Tear down everything old and put
up generic crap! Remember Papa Joe's? The Cukoos' Nest? Huh?!? Roll!
- Anonymous
By: Kristan Parrott , 24 Jan.2002
I remember S.C.P. when it was a Sears store in the middle of bean
and strawberry fields. I also remember The Zoo restaurant at the corner
of MacArthur and Jamboree, and the guy in the ape suit on the corner
to advertise. I also remember going to the Japanese deer park and also
taking hula lessons at a Huge Hawaiian restaurant on Harbor in either
Garden gove or Anaheim, but I can't remember the name. I also remember
whem South Coast Repitory Theatre was on Harbor in Costa Mesa In a tiny,
tiny space. I think a Condom Revolution is there now. There is so much
I remember, as I am a native, born in 1959 at Saint Joseph's Hospital
in Orange.(!!)bu too much to put here...... alas!
- Kristan Parrott
By: Mark Sudweeks, 28 Dec.2001
Mid '60's Knott's was just the chicken restaurant, the Wagonmaster's
show, the old West town, and FREE. My dad would take us into the general
store, and tell us that we could have all the penny candy we could hold
in one hand. We became masters of architecture, building structures
of candy in our hands as high as we could make it go. He laughs at that
story now, telling us that it still only cost him 25 or 30 cents per
hand.
- David Moore
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