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[Moonchilde]

Y’all are making me kinda homesick for my SoCal favorite spots!

I basically hung out in Santa Monica and Venice the last 18 years before I moved north. When I lived in OC I was in Laguna all the time, Capistrano, Newport-Balboa and worked in Newport Beach. I lived everywhere in the OC from Huntington Beach to Newport to Irvine, Tustin, Santa Ana and Garden Grove 10 min from Disneyland. I grew up and went to school mostly in the Valley.

Who knows this place?

[missy1]

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@tansy wrote:

I spent a lot of time at Crystal Cove in Laguna Beach, @missy1.  

@tansy. I went to Diver's Cove many times. (to the right of main Laguna Beach boardwalk)

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[Caligurll]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

Y’all are making me kinda homesick for my SoCal favorite spots!

I basically hung out in Santa Monica and Venice the last 18 years before I moved north. When I lived in OC I was in Laguna all the time, Capistrano, Newport-Balboa and worked in Newport Beach. I lived everywhere in the OC from Huntington Beach to Newport to Irvine, Tustin, Santa Ana and Garden Grove 10 min from Disneyland. I grew up and went to school mostly in the Valley.

Who knows this place?

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@MoonchildeI recognize it as the building used as the exterior shots for the Jeffersonian in Bones.

[Moonchilde]

Really, @Caligurll - how fun. I never watched Bones very much.

The building close-up is the Natural History Museum of LA County, built in 1913. It was closed for several years for retrofitting and is back bigger and better than ever. The long shot is the Rose Garden at Exposition Park. The view from the steps is that view. The building at the far end is the Air and Space Museum. To the right, out of view, is the building which houses Space Shuttle Endeavor.  Exposition Park also houses the LA Memorial Coliseum, which has hosted two Olympics already and will likely hold a third. To the left across the street is the campus of the Univ So Cal (USC).

[DiAnne]

I was born in Pasadena, CA.  My grandparents came to Pasadena as children.  Two sets of my great-grandparents, both sets of grandparents all lived in Pasadena.  My parents went to grade school and high school there.  I was at every Rose Parade until I was in high school.  We moved to Seal Beach when I was in third grade.  Lived in several locations around Orange County including Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Tustin, Santa Ana, etc.  

I moved from Orange County to the Seattle area in 1991.  I love having all four seasons but they are mild.   I still miss the Hollywood Bowl, concerts at the Greek Theater and all the theater available in LA.  I did not realize how good I had it!

I have friends who live in San Diego, Laguna Beach and Newport Beach.  Nice places to visit!

I also have cousins in the Bay area.  Two live in Sausalito and one in Marin.  My last surviving aunt lives in San Carlos.  

[Moonchilde]

Wow @DiAnne, we lived in a lot of the same places!

I only went to the Rose Parade once, believe it or not; decided watching on TV was warmer & cozier ;-) I have friends in their late 70s who live in Pasadena that camp out every year for the parade, and then go visit the parked floats after.

I loved going to both the Bowl and the Greek, but hadn’t been to the Greek in maaany years. The last time I went to the Bowl was maybe 5 years ago. I always took one of the park & ride buses, but the last few times it was pretty dodgy whether I could move fast enough to get to the bus afterwards, and getting TO the Bowl took more than an hour. Taking the earliest bus, I barely had time to grab food, potty and get seated. That took a little of the fun out ;-(

[Noel7]

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@qvcaddition wrote:

@Moonchilde

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@Moonchilde wrote:

To introduce my CA credentials -

@Moonchilde@Born and raised here, second generation. My maternal grandparents lived here from about 1915. Both my mother and I, and my sister, born and raised in SoCal. Nieces and their families living in NorCal and the Central Coast, and me too now on the Central Coast. I lived almost my entire life all over SoCal from the Valley to Long Beach to all over the OC, visited San Diego and Santa Barbara multiple times. Have only visited briefly north of here - in the fire areas, once.  So...familiar with the state ;-

I love the weather and the scenery on the Central Coast (and the wine), and the slower pace. I don’t miss SoCal traffic, prices, heat and crowds, but very much miss its cultural diversity, its museums, its international cuisine, and its shopping.

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Hi, thanks for the tread.  I was born and raised in San Francisco 81 years ago. Raised by my Grandmother from Italy and lived in North Beach.  My Father was a crab fisherman.  I graduated from Galileo HS in 1954.  I also lived inner and outer Mission through the years.   Moved to Linda Mar for 15 years and worked at The MOONRAKER restaurant for a few years, a beautiful place over looking the ocean.  Ok now live in Sonoma County for forty two years.

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@qvcaddition

Where was the Moonraker exactly?  It sounds so familiar, I know I've been there.

A Gal girl, hey   OMG a crab fisherman!  Classic SF and wonderful!

I have always loved North Beach.  When our daughter was little, I used to take her there to that famous Italian bakery (I can't think of the name) to buy Italian Easter bread for the holiday.  Then she graduated to the poster shops on Columbus, left over from the 60s, and then a corner Italian pastry/coffee shop.

Do you remember the Spaghetti Factory in North Beach, with the chairs hanging off of high walls?  Loved that place.

[Noel7]

The Moonraker!  Linda Mar threw me, I'm not used to that name,  Rockaway Beach says google, but maybe they don't know, either.

I think I know the one, flat, large dining area, literally hanging over the rocks?  If it's the one I'm thinking of, we went to a Bat Mitzvah celebration there.  Another time, also.

@qvcaddition

[Noel7]

Beautiful @BirdieGal !

[Noel7]

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@hennypenny wrote:

I was born in San Francisco. I am a 5th generation San Franciscan.

Noel, looks like our families may have crossed paths in the past.

I have been living in Santa Barbara since the 1960's. Came for school and never left.  I love and adore it here, but San Francisco will always be home.

This will be a nice thread, just have to train myself to check in.

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 @hennypenny

I remember you and I talking about growing up in SF, I was putting up old photos of The Big E and, I think, The City of Paris

We may have also talked about Blums cake, was it Coffee Crunch?