There was a time, I’m sure, when the Ebell Club’s building was the talk of the town. Unless you are a member of the Ebell Society of Santa Ana Valley or a member of the Santa Ana Rotary, you may not be familiar with this “east of Main” beautiful Mediterranean building at 625 French Street.…
Read MoreWhen you talk to some people around town, they believe the Howe-Waffle House is a restaurant that IHOP passed up when the pancake magnate purchased all the old waffle establishments (presumably because they wanted to have pancakes instead of waffles on their menu). The fact is, IHOP was never even in the picture. What was…
Read MoreAround the corner from my office stands the largest unaccomplished project we have ever not finished (is that a triple negative?). The main contributor to the project’s degree of difficulty to be developed, in one way or another, has always been the economy. The building is just less than 50,000 square feet, and has stood…
Read MoreHave you ever played Monopoly, and the man in blue with the nightstick sends you to the can. “Bummer,” one might say. My first trip to the Orange County Jail, one of downtown’s more ominous structures, was not at all like this. Originally designed in 1969, around the early 80’s the over crowded jail was
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