The Orange County Tribune Every Wednesday & Saturday

JIm Tortolano Editor and Publisher Marilyn Lewis Tortolano General Manager

The Orange County Tribune is published on Wednesdays and Saturdays with some exceptions. Address is 9402 Luders Ave., Garden Grove, 92844.

E-mail : orangecountytribune@gmail. com.

Website: www.orangecountytribune. com.

Phone: (714) 458-1860.

Established Aug. 6, 2016. All opinions expressed in The Tribune, unless otherwise stated, are those of the individual writer or artist and not necessarily those of The Tribune.

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Oh, gee! Who could forget Newberry’s?

Are you “OG?” Or perhaps “OGG?”

OG is slang for “original gangster,” a term which started on the mean streets of L.A. and which has come to mean “old school” or a long-time-resident of an area or veteran of a profession or skill.

A lot of our readers are OG, mostly because –let’s face it – hardly anyone under the age of 40 reads a newspaper (or news website) any more).

Retorts

Jim Tortolano

So, you may be OG if you remember:

• The Green Shack in Huntington Beach where the oil workers, wildcatters and roustabouts liked to hang out

• The slowly saluting giant Chevron service station attendant at Katella Avenue and Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim

• Southern Hills Miniature Golf Course in Stanton on Beach Boulevard, where there were absolutely no hills

• Belisle’s Restaurant at Harbor Boulevard and Chapman Avenue in Garden Grove, which served brownies as big as your head (well, almost)

• Barber City, one of the communities absorbed into Westminster

• Any of these now-defunct stores: The Treasury, Boston Stores, J.J. Newberry, SQR, Robert Hall, Orbach’s, Food Giant, Mayfair, Fazios, Wineman’s, Broadway, Montgomery Ward

• Any of these now-gone eateries: The Pink Spot, Priscilla’s Cake Box, Imperial Restaurant, Charley Brown’s, Me N Ed’s, The Jolly Knight, Victoria Station, Bob’s Big Boy (gone from Orange County, anyway),