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Home Search My WebLink About 100 block of Main Street looking inland from PCH. Note: Freestanding clock (left) and the "Furniture" sign atop the Olsen Building at 215 Main both-left 4th of July on Main Street A 1925 photo of gas station on PCH near First Street. Possibly Andy's Service Station. Station selling Red Crown Gasoline, Zerolene Oils, tires, and accessories. Cafe in background. Note: old glass pumps A 1927 photo of Main Street from PCH showing intersection and many 1920s cars and the unusal steet light on corner Aerial views of PCH and one of Main Street Arches over Ocean Avenue (PCH) and Main Street looking east onto Main Street Arches over Ocean Avenue (PCH) with the Huntington Beach sign hanging below. Golden Bear Cafe on the left. PE Train Depot on the right. Arches erected in 1929 and removed in 1941 due to corrosion of the galvanized steel Arco gas station (originally Richfiled) at PCH and Huntington Street. Circa late 1960s or early 1970s. Note: Price of gas is 27.9 cents for regular and 31.9 cents for premium.Bob Jurkorich's Hudson Dealership at 410 Main on left. Roy Bryant Dodge Plymouth Dealership at 401 Main Street on right Chamber of Commerce meal on sidewalk in front of the Golden Bear Cafe on PCH Ocean Avenue in 1935 Chief Tinsley and an illegal still Christmas lights on Main Street looking inland from PCH Closing of the Golden Bear Night Club in 1986 Collins Building at 102 Main Street with early cars. Circa 1910. Note: Vincent's Place on awning Color photo of Jack in the Box, Gardner House, and Mo-Ped House Color photo of Jack in the Box, Gardner House, and Mo-Ped House (3)Color photo of Main and Clay Streets at the northern city limits taken by Alicia Wentworth in 1947 Color photo of Wimpi's Hamburgers drive-thru and Richard's Coffee Shop Color picture of outside wall of Bray's Alpha Beta Market uncovered during redevelopment Conceptual drawing of Jack's Surfboards and office building at Main and PCH Dead Mans Curve at Main and Mansion, Yorktown, before start of city beautification 1950.Deane Homes sign at PCH and Beach Boulevard with trailer park in distance.Demolition of the Golden Bear Dr. Clark and Nurse Wright in early model car in Santa Ana. Circa 1912 Entrance to Main Street from PCH. Obarr Drugstore on left. Allyn Pop Perkins Malt Shop on right Ferris wheel at entrance to pier for 4th of July carnival. Circa 1946 or 1947 First National Bank, Savings Bank of Huntington Beach, Sundbyes Department Store, City Hall, Main and Walnut First traffic signal in Huntington Beach at Main Grading of Main Street near 13th and Lake Park in 1912 Hardware Store Heidi's Frogen Yozurt at 116 Main Street opened August 28, 1987. Island Surf Co. at 118 Main Street closed Decembr 1996.High view of Main Street looking towards pier and showing some vendors for the Ocean Pacific event in 1982.Intersection of Main and PCH July 4th, 1947 celebration at the entrance to the pier. Chevron station (Standard Stations, Inc.), Pier Cafe July 4th, 1947 celebration at the entrance to the pier. Chevron station (Standard Stations, Inc.), Pier Cafe (3)Lake Street and Atlanta intersection with railroad sign and tracks, girls in bikinis Long photo showing Main and Walnut intersection Looking towards ocean at intersection of Walnut and First Street. Jack in the Box drive-thru and Gardner House right shown Looking towards PCH & First Street (Lake Street) and the Jack In the Box Drive-in Main Street and PCH looking inland with two girls in swimsuits and buntiing and a small boy in the arches in 1939 with O-B-Drug Co., The Rexall Store, in the background., Signs "SUNFREZE Ice Cream and "Fountain Lunch"Main Street as dirt road near Olive Avenue looking towards the pier in June 1906. Note: Sundbye Department Store sign on the left and Dameron & Hallicy Meat Market on the right Main Street at Walnut Avenue between 1938 and 1941. H.B. CutRate built in 1938 and arches taken down in 1941. McCoy Drug Store sign on right edge of photo and pier entrance at back of photo.Main Street looking towards ocean MAIN STREET NORTH FROM OCEAN AVENUE ( P.C.H - PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY )Maybe some political event, note ladies in booth wrapped with bunting, banners flown across street Minnie Higgins in charge of the vegetable department of the Alpha Beta Market at 218 Main Street Newspaper photo showing Patti (Jewett) Fogarty and Richard (boyfriend) crossing Main Street at PCH in 1972. Note: Cow on top of building above Jack's Surfboards Night photo of the Southern Californial Edison Steam Pland at PCh and Newland Ocean Avenue - Pacific Coast Highway - Circa 1905 Ocean Avenue (PCH) looking towards Main Street. Pacific Electric Depot on right. Hotel on left Ocean Avenue looking north from Main Street showing Obarr Drugstore, Ocean Wave Hotel and many wooden oil derricks Ocean side of PCH with tracks and parked cars Old Downtown - Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway - 1897 - Horses and Carriages - People in streets Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) with its arches, the Pacific Electric Train Station, and the Pavilion.Pacific Electric train station at PCH (Ocean Avenue) and Main Street in 1904 Parade of cars when Franklin D. Roosevelt rode from Los Angeles to San Diego on July 16, 1938. Note: Flags with 48 stars on the welcoming arch and wooden oil derricks in the background.Part of a larger picture taken July 4, 1947 showing a ferris wheel, some concession stands PCH and 3rd Street looking north. Note: Fisherman Restaurant (later Maxwell's Restaurant) next to the pier.PCH looking towards Fisherman Restaurant Photo courtesy of First American Title Insurance Co; Ocean Avenue (PCH) looking south at Golden Bear Cafe. Vintage 1920s cars and old stop light Photo from a book of the Huntington Inn on Ocean Avenue (PCH) and Eighth Street which was later used as the Elk's lodge and torn down in the 1960s Photo from a book of the Huntington Inn on Ocean Avenue (PCH) and Eighth Street which was later used as the Elk's lodge and torn down in the 1960s (3)Photo from book of the 4th of July parade on PCH looking north from Main Street showing military band. Note: part of Huntington Beach's welcoming arch is on the right with the Obarr Building behind it. Ocean Wave Motel is also seen.Photo from the Robert Blankman collection of Main Street & PCH Picture of Huntington Auto Service at 610 Main Street. Owned by Elmer Goetsch and Albert Pete Pedersen. Circa 1980s Picture of Ocean Avenue before it was paved showing Ocean Wave Hotel and several small wooden buildings looking south towards Main Street. Note: Horseless carriage and buggy on PCH Picture taken of SeaCliff Business Park at 2100 Main Street, across from Civic Center. Circa unkown Postcard showing divided Main Street at Clay at the north city limits of Huntington Beach with open fields Projekts, Chuck Dent Surfboards Savings Bank of Huntington Beach (The Security Pacific Bank later) and First National Bank at Main and Walnut and Sundbye Department Store next door in 1906. City Hall and Post Office on Walnut side Taking down the Huntington Beach sign and the dismantling of the arches in on May 28, 1941 Taking down the Huntington Beach sign and the dismantling of the arches in on May 28, 1941 (5)Taking down the Huntington Beach sign and the dismantling of the arches in on May 28, 1941 (6)Taking down the Huntington Beach sign and the dismantling of the arches in on May 28, 1941 (7)The Fisherman Restaruant on PCH next to HB Pier The Golden Bear Cafe was a tourist magnet until it was demolished in 1986 to make way for the Pierside Pavilion Two horses and a buggy taken on PCH in 1905 with Ocean Wave Hotel in background.Walnut Avenue showing Stewart Hall (upstairs) and Prescott Hardware (below) and next to it showing only "HUN" is the office of the Huntington Beach News. Note: Buggy and two dogs.William T. Newland of the South Coast Improvement Association at the Huntington Inn Wind and Sea Surf Shop