Olive Through the Ages

Tour of Olive: Section E

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Olive Hillside Groves, Incorporated: Founded in 1914. Building burned down on December 16, 1927, along with neighboring Olive Heights Citrus Association. Rebuilt of brick in 1928 on the same site, at 109 Railroad Street (listed as 8642 Santa Ana Canyon Road in 1947). Operations at this Mutual Orange Distributors house ceased in 1960. (See 1915 image and 1929 image.)

Merlex Stucco: In 1963, Merlex Stucco began operating in this building—listed at 8642 N. Orange-Olive Road in 1965—and remains here today at 2911 N. Orange-Olive Road. (See 1969 image and recent image.)

Growers Fruit Company: Built here in 1911. In 1921 Thomas H. Peppers and his partner A.J. Miller bought out this packing house and renamed their firm Peppers Fruit Company. In 1923 the name of the firm changed to Olive Fruit Company. In 1932 a fire burned down this building at 101 Main, which would never be rebuilt. (See detail from a 1912 panoramic image, and background of a 1929 image.)

Olive Heights Center: This strip mall was built circa 1965, and still occupies the south side of Lincoln Avenue mid-way between Orange-Olive Road and Magnolia Avenue to this day. When first constructed, tenants included Olive Cleaners at 826 E. Lincoln (located today at 820 E. Lincoln), and Olive Medical at 830 E. Lincoln. Olive Heights Pharmacy was listed at 820 E. Lincoln Avenue in the 1968 directory, Olive-Heights Market was listed at 824 E. Lincoln in 1971 (the same address as Hi-Ho Market and Liquor today), and The Olive Pit was listed at 834 E. Lincoln in 1973—and still remains at this address today. (See recent image.)

Olive Post Office: In 1919, the U.S. Post Office was located here on the south side of Hope Street at 4 east Olive Boulevard. In 1926, the post office was housed in the brick building at the northeastern corner of Railroad Street (later called Canyon Way, and Orange-Olive Road today) and Hope Street (later called Santiago, and Lincoln Avenue today). The post office remained here until the brick building burned down in 1961, at which time it temporarily relocated to the Santa Fe depot near the northeastern corner of Lincoln and Orange-Olive Road. When the Santa Fe depot was razed in 1964, the Olive Station post office moved to its permanent location at 2683 N. Orange-Olive Road in the strip mall at the Orange-Olive Center, where it remains today. (See 1928 Sanborn Map.)

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