| 1958 |
September 7: New St.
Paul's Lutheran School building is dedicated at the site near the
southwestern corner of Heim Avenue and Canal Street.59
Lawrence Kokx's packing house closes. (Source: Tom Pulley)
Luskey's 1958-59 Orange City Directory includes the following listings:
Al's Barber Shop (Al Campbell, 16432 Santiago Blvd.), Custom Body
Shop (8610 Santa Ana Canyon Road), Dodge Glenn Union Service Station
(W.G. Dodge, 8692 Santa Ana Canyon Road), Olive Cafe (E.W. Mulder,
16372 Anaheim Olive Road), Olive Forgeing and Welding (G. Hughes,
Santiago Boulevard, corner of Orange-Olive Road), Motel Olive Apartments
(R.J. & Mrs. E.P. Underwood, 8620 Santa Ana Canyon Road), Olive
Food Market (T.O. & Mrs. B.H. Millers, 8702 Santa Ana Canyon
Road), Olive Garage (A.W. Ames, 16482 Anaheim-Olive Road), Olive
Hillside Groves, Inc. (H.D. Lemke, president, W.E. Collin, vice
president, B.F. Guard, secretary manager, 8642 S. Santa Ana Canyon
Road), Olive Pharmacy (L.C. McClelland, 8722 Santa Ana Canyon Road),
Olive Pool Hall (R.L. Parent, 16432 Santiago Blvd.), Olive School
(P.H. Petersen, principal, P.O. Box 27, Olive), Olive Tavern (E.W.
Mulder, 16376 Anaheim-Olive Road), Radice's Nursery (Charles &
Mrs. J.E. Radice,
8532 Santa Ana Canyon Road), Santa Fe Railway Co. (C.F. Gross, agent,
8691 Santa Ana Canyon Road), Sol-Air Products toys manufacturers
(G.H. Matter & L.G. Deterding, 16381 Anaheim-Olive Road), St.
Paul's Lutheran Church (Reverend L.E. Muhly, pastor, 16601 Main),
St. Paul's Lutheran School (Roland G. Hoeppnor, principal, 8651
Magnolia). Olive Cafe and Olive Pool Hall appear for the last time
in this Directory.52
Olive Mission (Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church) is founded, started
by members of First Southern Baptist Church of Anaheim. (Sources:
Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church, accessed July 2016, and Southern
Baptist Church of Anaheim "Church History" Web site, accessed
December 2010) |
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| 1959 |
Circa this time, many
orchard owners—or their descendants—begin selling their
property to housing developers. |
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| 1960 |
Circa this time, Olive
Hillside Groves—a Mutual Orange Distributors house—closes
its operations.25
The Santa Fe Railway agency at Olive closes.39
Construction of new homes begins in many areas surrounding present-day
Olive. Based on Margaret Hughes' hand drawn map dated in the 1940s,
some of the streets located near St. James Avenue would be named
for former orchard owners: Greenleaf Avenue for Mr. Greenleaf who
grew oranges and lemons, and Bortz Street for L.A. Bortz who grew
lemons.9
The S.A.V.I. canal/tunnel falls into disuse due to the construction
of a housing tract northeast of the original Olive streets in the
early 1960s. |
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| 1961 |
Luskey's Orange
City Directory includes the following listings: Olive Elementary
School (8651 Magnolia Avenue—this is shown as the address
for St. Paul's Lutheran School in Luskey's 1958-59 Directory),
Olive Motel and Apartments (R.I. and Mrs. E.P. Underwood, 8620
Santa Ana Canyon Road), St. Paul's Lutheran Church (8651 Magnolia
Avenue—the same address shown in this directory for Olive
Elementary School), St. Paul's Lutheran School (16682 Heim Avenue),
Bert's Service (8610 Santa Ana Canyon Road), Dodge Glenn Union
Service Station (8692 Santa Ana Canyon Road).52
The Olive Elementary School site is annexed to the City of Orange.8
The Santa Fe Railway depot is retired and the structure is used
as the temporary U.S. Post Office.39
August: Olive Assembly of God Church is founded by Peter and Beverly
Caruso. Services are held in the family home on Heim Avenue which
would be cleared away along with surrounding orange groves the
following year to make way for the construction of Heim Elementary
School in 1963. (Source: Bevery Caruso, November 2015)
Sunday, December 10: Fire guts the one-story brick building that
houses The Olive Food Market, U.S. Post Office, and The Olive
Pharmacy at the northeastern corner of Orange-Olive Road at Lincoln
Avenue. This structure, dating back to 1923, would never be rebuilt.2
(Additional source: Clay Miller, Register Staff Writer, "Olive
Business Area Hit; $200,000 Damages: Skeleton Remains Today."
The Register December 11, 1961) |
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| 1962 |
January: Olive Assembly
of God and Olive Christian School temporarily relocate to a wooden,
white, two-story Craftsman house at 16051 E. Lincoln Avenue. (Source:
Beverly Caruso, November 2015, and OC Archives road works photos)
March 21: Olive Mission (Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church) members
begin meeting in a farm house at 604 W. Lincoln Avenue. (Source:
First Southern Baptist Church of Anaheim "Church History"
Web site, accessed December 2010).
Libby J. Meats sells to Charmaine Meyers Nance the parcel of land
across from Olive Elementary School, to the west of the railroad
tracks.9
Pacific Telephone's November 1962 Orange County Telephone Directory
lists Olive Equipment Co. at 15505 Lincoln in Orange, and Olive
Tavern at 16372 Anaheim-Olive Road in Anaheim.55 |
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| 1963 |
January 11: Merlex
Stucco begins operating in the former Olive Hillside Groves building
at 2911 N. Orange-Olive Road.24
Olive Elementary School is rebuilt to meet earthquake standards.56
The Orange Olive Center is built on Orange-Olive Road. The two tenants
outside of the strip mall in the Center are Al's Party Pantry (store
no. 2) and Snyder's Shell Service station, neither which are in
operation today. In recent times, Christine's Dance Studio would
occupy the former Al's Party Pantry building at 2681 N. Orange-Olive
Road, and the Orange Hill Auto garage would operate in the former
Snyder's Shell Service station building at 2707 N. Orange-Olive
Road.52
July: New St. Paul's Lutheran Church sanctuary is dedicated at the
southwestern corner of Heim Avenue and Canal St.59
Pacific Telephone's November Orange County Telephone Directory lists
the following "new" information: Olive Cabinets Inc. (16762
Lincoln Avenue), Olive Cleaners (826 E. Lincoln—located today
at 820 E. Lincoln in the Olive Heights Center), Olive Heights Pharmacy
(820 E. Lincoln Avenue in the Olive Heights Center), Olive Medical
(830 E. Lincoln Avenue in the Olive Heights Center).55
According to LoopNet.com, the Olive Heights Center was built in
1964.
The Olive branch of the U.S. Post Office at 8673 Santa Ana Canyon
Road55
becomes an Orange Post Office station64
and relocates to 2683 N. Orange-Olive Road in the strip mall at
the Orange Olive Center. |
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| 1964 |
Luskey's Orange City
Directory includes the following "new" information for
Olive: Olive Christian School (16051 E. Lincoln Avenue), Olive Heights
Citrus Association (Rudy Heman, manager), Olive Heights Pharmacy
(M.F. Maietta).52
October 5: The former Santa Fe Railway depot structure—that
most recently housed the U.S. Post Office in Olive—is razed39
due to the realignment of Orange-Olive Road and Lincoln Avenue.9
The Signal Oil Company Service Station structure—listed in
Luskey's 1965 Orange Directory—is identified on the U.S. Geological
Survey map at the southeastern corner of Lincoln and Orange-Olive.
This same map shows Olive Assembly of God Church in its new location
at 8561 Dowling Street (later renamed Glassell St.).45 |
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| 1965 |
Luskey's 1965 Orange
City Directory includes the following listings for Olive—the
street names and/or numbers having changed since the realignment
of Orange-Olive Road and Lincoln Avenue: Mission Clay Products (B.B.
Garrett, president, Owen Garrett, vice president, Ted Hellers, manager,
1629 E. Lincoln Avenue), Olive Garage (Anselmo W. Ames, 606 E. Lincoln).52
Luskey's Directory includes the following listings for the City
of Orange: Lincoln Avenue (Southern) Baptist Church (604 W. Lincoln
Avenue), Olive Elementary School (Robert Jobe, principal, 8612 Olive
Avenue), Merlex Materials and Manufacturing, Incorporated (M.H.
VerBurg, president, H.L. Wagner, vice president, Arthur Woodman,
secretary-treasurer, 8642 N. Orange-Olive Road), Olive Cleaners
(Newton Dyerly), Olive Medical (M. DeLuca, J. Jen Kin, and R. Clough),
St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Reverend Reinhold F. Knaus, pastor,
16702 E. Heim), St. Paul's Lutheran School (Paul A. Weerts, principal,
16702 E. Heim), Signal Oil Company Service Station (2101 N. Orange-Olive
Road).52
St. Paul's Lutheran organization sells its property in Olive.59 |
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| 1966 |
First National Bank
of Olive building is razed due to the realignment of Lincoln Avenue.9
Pacific Telephone's September Orange County directory lists Olive
Assembly of God and Olive Christian Day School at 8561 Dowing (misspelled
from "Dowling").55 |
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| 1967 |
Four hundred feet
of the Santa Fe spur line crossing Ocean View Avenue is retired.18
Circa this time, prior to February, Tzaddi Wedding Chapel and Metaphysical
Center begins operating in the former St. Paul's Lutheran Church
sanctuary.42
Circa this time, prior to March, Enco Products Service Station begins
operating at the former site of Signal Oil Company Service Station.42
September: Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church services are held in the
church's new facilities at the southwestern corner of Lincoln Avenue
and Canal Street. The church is dedicated on December 7.65
Pacific Telephone's Directory lists only Olive Assembly of God at
the 1966 address, and Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church is listed at
16751 Lincoln Avenue, which is equivalent to the address listed
for Olive Southern Baptist Church in 1966.55
Action Recycling Center is established and makes use of the former
Lawrence Kokx cabbage shed structure. The business continues operating
out of the modified structure in 2011. |
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| 1968 |
Pacific Telephone's
November 1968 Orange County White Pages Telephone Directory lists
Tzaddi Chapel and Center at 8651 Magnolia Avenue in Olive—the
former address of St. Paul's Lutheran School and Church.
Pacific Telephone's Directory lists in the City of Orange: Enco
Products Service Station (2101 N. Orange-Olive Road—the former
address of Signal Oil Company Service Station), Olive Heights Pharmacy
(its last entry in the Directory).55
Pacific Telephone's Directory includes the last entry for Mission
Clay Products Company at 1629 E. Lincoln Avenue in Orange.55
In Pacific Telephone's November 1971 Orange County Center and North
White Pages Directory, Mission Clay Products is listed at the following
locations: 23835 Highway 71 in Corona, 217 N. Magnolia in Whittier,
and 10009 S. Painter in Santa Fe Springs.54 |
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| 1969 |
January 14: The Brickyard
shopping center is founded at 1667 E. Lincoln Avenue in Orange,
on the former site of the old Mission Clay Products Company brick
yard.24
However, construction on the shopping center does not begin until
several years later.
May 12: Enco Automotive Products is conditionally dissolved and
Enco Products Service Station at 2101 N. Orange-Olive Road subsequently
closes.24
Eisenhower Park is founded at 2864 N. Tustin Avenue, on the northwestern
corner of Tustin and Lincoln. The park is named in honor of former
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower who passed away this year. |
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| 1970 |
Pacific Telephone's
November Orange County White Pages Telephone Directory includes
the following listings in the Orange and Olive area: Olive-Heights
Market (at the same location as Hi-Ho Market and Liquor today—824
E. Lincoln in the Olive Heights Center), Olive Little Leagues (8612
Olive Avenue—the address of Olive Elementary School).
This directory also lists Olive Assembly of God at 8561 Glassell.54
When the unincorporated area occupied by Dowling Street was annexed
to the City of Orange on September 14, 1972, the address for Olive
Assembly Church changed to 2830 N. Glassell Street. (Source: Mark
Winters, City of Orange planner) |
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| 1971 |
Pacific Telephone's
November Orange County White Pages Telephone Directory includes
the following listings in Orange: Olive Elementary School (the same
address of the school today—3038 N. Magnolia), Olive Heights
Wedding Chapel and Reception Hall (the same location as the former
Tzaddi Chapel, but assigned a new address—1000 E. Lincoln),
Olive Heights Catering (1000 E. Lincoln).54 |
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| 1972 |
The Lakeside Professional
Medical Dental building opens at the site of the second flour mill—which
later became the site of the Padre Tile Company in the mid-1920s.
The one-story, glass building stood on the northeastern corner of
Ocean View at 1301 E. Lincoln Avenue in Orange. |
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| 1973 |
July 6: North Orange
Christian Church is established32
at the former site of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church—now listed
as 1001 E. Lincoln.54
The church also occupies the former parochial school building on
this parcel.
Pacific Telephone's November Orange County White Pages Telephone
Directory lists The Olive Pit at 834 E. Lincoln in Orange, where
it is still located today in the Olive Heights Center.54
Two hundred feet of the Santa Fe spur line between Palm and Orange
Avenue is retired.18 |
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| 1974 |
Pacific Telephone's
November Orange County White Pages Telephone Directory lists Lincoln
Avenue Baptist Church at 1310 E. Lincoln Avenue, its current address.54 |
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| 1976 |
February 3: The "First
Site of the Olive Mill" brick monument with bronze plaque is
placed on the northwestern edge of in Eisenhower Park. This monument
is erected by the Orange North Rotary Club, Orange Bicentennial
Commission. |
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| 1977 |
Pacific Telephone
White Pages Directory lists Assembly of God — Olive - Orange
at 2830 N. Glassell Street, and Orange Christian School at the same
address.54
By 2002 the church would be renamed Orange Christian Assembly. The
church and school would remain on this property until 2007,55
sharing the facilities with Pyramid Autism Center beginning in 2004.
Though Pyramid is solely operating on this site today, the property
is still owned by Southern California Assemblies of God. (Source:
Grace, Pyramid Autism Center representative)
Local developers Roger Hobbs and Alan Trider purchase the brick
yard site and begin development of The Brickyard shopping center
in partnership with Bruce Gelker (developer of the Saddleback Inn
in Santa Ana). (Source: Phil Brigandi) |
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| 1979 |
Pacific Telephone
White Pages Directory lists Olive Little League Snack Bar at 2841
N. Glassell, Orange, 714-998-4161. This may be the last listing
for Olive Little League.54 |
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| 1981 |
August 7: The following
business entities were photographed in black and white on this date:
Olive Motel Apartments at 8620-22 Orange-Olive Road, and Olive Garage
at 606 Lincoln next door to Henry's Bar. (Source: First American
Corporation)
Circa this time, a two-story office building is built at the southeastern
corner of Lincoln and Orange-Olive Road, where the Enco service
station used to operate.24
This structure still stands today at 710-722 E. Lincoln Avenue.
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| 1983 |
October 13: C.C.c.c.
Heating & Air Conditioning, Incorporated begins operating in
the former Olive Garage building. This business continues to operate
today at 606 E. Lincoln Avenue.24
Luskey's Orange-Villa Park Telephone Directory lists the Olive Garage
Official Inspection Station at 2845 Orange-Olive Road in Orange.53 |
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| 1984 |
June 9: Olive Elementary
School closes.31
Heim Elementary School also closes this month.59
Olive Heights Citrus Association shuts down its operations on Orange-Olive
Road due to its merger with Orange Heights Citrus Association in
Corona.33
Pacific Telephone's November Orange County White Pages Telephone
Directory lists the Olive Garage at 2845 Orange-Olive Road in Orange,
where it operates today.54 |
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| 1985 |
Autumn: St. Paul's
Lutheran School opens for Kindergarten through 8th grade students
at the former Heim Elementary School site.59 |
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| 1987 |
The Olive Heights
Citrus Association property is purchased by Danny Letner who forms
Sun Kest Properties to further the redevelopment of this parcel.9 |
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| 1988 |
December: Fire guts
the Olive Heights Citrus Association structure.9 |
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| 1989 |
October 28: "Fire
Station No. 20, 8663 Orange-Olive Road, Olive," is named by
the Orange County Fire Authority as being at high risk for severe
earthquake damage.65 |
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| 1993 |
October 7: Olive Civic
Center is included in the National Register of Historic Places,
Register No. 93001038.28 |
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| 1994 |
Summer: Rudy Heman—Olive
native, former fast-pitch softball legend in Olive, and one-time
manager of the Olive Heights Citrus Association—dies at his
home in Olive.36 |
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| 1997 |
February 23: Fire
Station #20, deactivated in 1996, closes.30
Both Fire Station #20 and Olive Heights Citrus Association structures
are razed to make room for a housing development.2 |
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| 1998 |
Greystone Homes constructs
36 detached residential condominium units to the west of the Santa
Fe railroad tracks, on the northwestern corner of Lincoln Avenue
at Orange-Olive Road.34
The Greystone Crossings tract is located in a cul-de-sac that would
be named Santa Fe Place. |
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| 1999 |
September 7: Olive
Elementary School reopens.16
The school is located at 3038 N. Magnolia Avenue in Orange. |
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| 2001 |
Vero, a division of
Merlex Stucco, begins operating out of the former Lawrence Kokx
packing house. The entire building is owned by Merlex Stucco. |
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| 2006 |
November: A number
of residents attempt to halt the development of a 12-unit condominium
proposed for construction on Main Street near Buena Vista.58 |
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| 2009 |
July: Olive Station
U.S. Post Office is listed as one of the post offices in Orange
County that may close in the near future due to the Postal Service's
budgetary concerns.
September: The foundation is laid for condominiums at the northeastern
corner of Main and Ocean View. |
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| 2010 |
June: Olive Station
U.S. Post Office is removed from the list of post offices to be
closed. |
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| 2011 |
July: Olive Station
U.S. Post Office is again placed on the list of post offices slated
for closure. In December, an announcement is made that all post
offices on the list will remain open until May 2012. However, operations
at the Olive Station continue post 2012.
Construction is completed for condominium units on the north side
of Main Street at Buena Vista.
Apartment units are constructed at the former Olive Motel Apartment
site, originally the Clement Lumber Co. site, on the northeastern
corner of Orange-Olive Road and Buena Vista. |
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| 2015 |
March 23: Property
owned by Southern California Assemblies of God is sold to an investment
firm. The church and school were active at this site until 2007.
May: Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church is merged with The Main Place
Christian Fellowship and the old corporation is dissolved. |
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| 2016 |
Merlex Stucco and
Vero are acquired by Parex USA, and by September the new company
post its signage outside the former Olive Hillside Groves brick
building Merlex Stucco occupied since 1963. About this time, the
former Lawrence Kokx packing house next door that the Vero business
occupied sports a banner: Central Valley Builders Supplies, the
name of a hardware and garden store headquartered in Napa Valley,
CA which was founded in 1948. |
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| 2017 |
July: Olive Pony Baseball
league (which plays its games at Olive Park) takes its first Little
League World Series championship.73 |
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| 2018 |
October: The former
Olive Assembly of God buildings on Glassell—most recently
occupied by Pyramid Autism Center—are demolished to make way
for the construction of Trio Townhomes. |
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| 2019 |
June 10: The low,
brick and mortar border that surrounded the base of the Old Santa
Ana fieldstone monument on N. Orange-Olive Rd. since the 1960s
is removed due to its deterioration over time.
October: Construction completed on Trio Townhomes on the former
Assemblies of God property.
November 10: Lakeside Professional Building on the corner of
Lincoln and Oceanview is demolished.
December 12: Olive Station U.S. Post Office is temporarily closed
from this day through the present time.
December 31: Fabric Land at the Lincoln Village strip mall closes,
after being in business for 58 years. |
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| 2020 |
Parex USA moves out
of the former Merlex Stucco building at 2911 N. Orange-Olive Rd.
The building stands vacant as of December 2022. |
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| 2021 |
Grading begins
for a facility to be constructed at the northeastern corner of
Lincoln Ave. at Oceanview, the former site of the second Olive
Mill of 1890 and, more recently, Lakeside Professional Building.
Metal fencing appears around the lot on the northeastern corner
of Lincoln and Orange-Olive Road (formerly the site of the 1923
brick building that burned in 1961) adjacent to the current Olive
Garage.
A sidewalk is constructed on the eastern side of Orange-Olive
Road, north of Lincoln Ave., up to Buena Vista Ave.
A chainlink fence is built around the former Merlex Stucco (Olive
Hillside Groves) brick building on Orange-Olive Road. |
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| 2022 |
January: Aspire Inn
& Suites opens at 428 E. Lincoln Ave. in the former JR Motel
building which was constructed in 2017 and operated until 2020. |
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| 2023 |
April 1: Sunrise of
Orange, a Sunrise Senior Living facility that provides "Assisted
Living / Memory Care," holds its Grand Opening celebration
on premises at the former site of Lakeside Professional Building,
1301 E. Lincoln Ave. |
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| 2024 |
January 31: The
Village at Orange on Tustin St. and Meats Ave. closes. It was
known as the Mall of Orange when it first opened in 1971. The
Sears anchor store, which opened as a standalone store in 1967
with plans to be connected to the constructed mall (source: https://villapark.co/the-village-closing/),
closed on April 18, 2021.
The shopping center at 301-349 E. Grove Ave. (across from Shaffer
Park on Orange-Olive Road) closes and is surrounded by a chainlink
fence. Michael's Market originally opened in 1964 at this strip
mall when it was new.
September: Sections of The Village at Orange mall are now in
the process of being demolished. |
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