Oldest Operating Taco Bell In Orange County - Southern California Food Review at Laguna Beach
A visit to the oldest operating Taco Bell in Orange County California . The original building Laguna Beach location was also the first to have indoor seating.
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welcome everyone Adam is the Wu here
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today number 13 of this current series
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where I go around to Southern California
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eateries those that are notable tasty
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and/or the combination of being some
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would say iconic the Greater Los Angeles
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area and Orange County I'm heading down
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to Laguna Beach I'm inviting you to join
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me show you
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getting all my accessories ready and
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about to head out that's the back tire
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my bicycle but I'll be driving not
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riding
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I agree big the foot it is a nice scenic
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truck signal ahead what signal are you
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gonna do big the foot I suppose you
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could get on top of those hills and wave
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your arms around a lot that would be a
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good signal I'll be startled everyone
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though at the crossroads of Cleo Street
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and the Coast Highway
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sits the oldest operating Taco Bell in
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Orange County
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look at that beautiful structure over
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there it's open for business it's been
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going strong since the late 64 yeah 1967
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to be more precise than from what I read
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was the very first Taco Bell to have
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indoor seating pretty incredible when
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you think about it think of how many
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there are out there this is the first
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one to have into a city also as best I
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can tell just from you know doing a
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little researching is the third oldest
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anywhere out of all of them this is the
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third oldest still in operation for this
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county it is Orange County it is the
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oldest but all across the board
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the third the very first Taco Bell which
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was located in Downey is at the main
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headquarters Schrunk wrap tucked away
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for all to see you do that you really
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cannot feast your eyes on the original
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architecture like what I am staring at
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and still get yourself a taco from the
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old school
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Taco Bell now I have frequented this
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company's establishments dozens and
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dozens well to be honest hundreds of
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times in my life but this might be the
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very first time I've eaten in one of the
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old school buildings the beauty of this
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is beyond magnificence when it comes to
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fast food history
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little renovations the top portion which
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used to arch up a little more has been
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removed but the outer shell is identical
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these walls could talk
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we'd be mentioning a lot of very full
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bellies and happy smiles from guests
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over the years way over half a century
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happy customers Wow
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around SoCal you will see a lot of these
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structures that have been taken over
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sometimes even by other taco stands and
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burrito places and the likes even even
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food choices that don't even relate to
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their original incarnation of what the
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of what the facades were intended this
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is exciting
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it's happening they used to all look
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like this no longer building them in
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this fashion anymore look at the
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brickwork down here there did reach a
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point when the style of the buildings
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changed completely
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but there were a multitude of these
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types
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a little flower bat out front is
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beautiful
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call the greenery and foliage another
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fun fact there is no drive-through at
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this particular one but they are open
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for take-out just go inside the side
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entry is how you gain access there's a
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fountain by the door well a side door no
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water accumulating and it's not doing
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any sort of clumping at the moment oh
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there's a B right there oh wow look
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I was not able to get too much footage
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inside it's par for the course with a
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lot of places when you go in they think
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some are cool with you wandering around
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with the camera and documenting the
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history and inside of a place and some
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others are confused by it and tell you
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to stop so I got a little better than
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they asked please sir no more filming in
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here and I got my I got my to go order
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I'm gonna go beachside and count out I
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also also got my beverage
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the wouldn't wouldn't beam portions
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right up here a little relics there
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there's two of them one on this end and
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one on the other so good right down this
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way and here's a view from the back
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section you can see portions of where
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that archway used to be original
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brickwork and all only a few yards away
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was this a very very short Stones Throw
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just like those seagulls are sitting on
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the rocks I have found a place in the
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shade to perch not only my bag of meal
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items but also myself little sandy but
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I'm gonna sit right here
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it's a little wet I changed my mind a
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bit these stairs
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little thirsty
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the box is a little little scrunched
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from the way I was carrying it but I
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have I do not recall the menu item but
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it this is a this is a Mexican pizza now
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it's coming back to me and basically it
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has all the cheeses and sauces on top
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and then down in here are the refried
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beans underneath this underneath this
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flap that's going to be good they did
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give me some plastic cutlery to use as
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well this is what we're dealing with
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it's not really about the meal per se
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even though this that's kind of a
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makeshift food review but it's more
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about the location this is something
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that I am familiar with in fact the
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whole bag full of goodies I'm just gonna
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they think I'm gonna use this one put
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that right back and just go in
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so in this kind of style it's broken up
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it's not every day you can go inside the
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oldest Taco Bell in Orange County
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California and get an item that you can
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get frankly anywhere else and in the
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other franchises so pretty pretty dang
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you can really taste the sauce on this
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very prominent
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also picked up a couple of regular tacos
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but they said I don't know if they're
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supreme I don't really see any sour
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cream maybe I didn't but it's got all
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the other accessories so maybe it is a
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supreme yeah I think this is the frame I
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got a few other
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have to kind of twist your neck
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brought my chair down here get a
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little more comfortable Feinstein
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definitely was the frame see the sour
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cream
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they were moving in once I moved away
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they smelled the bag
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Hitchcock would be proud back up these
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stairs
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much easier walking down then going back
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upward
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