These pages started with just a handful of locally owned & operated businesses that lasted more than a generation (20 years).

The lists have now grown to include some businesses that made a lasting impression in a shorter amount of time.

So pick your city and enjoy a trip down memory lane.

Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Ventura

SOME CONTINUING LEGENDS:

Aloha Steakhouse

Andreas Seafood

Avenue Tire

Avenue Wheel &

Alignment

Beachfronter

Apartments

Bench Warmer

Bob Carlson Towing

Brophy Bros,

Busy Bee

Cabrillo Pharmacy

California Oaks

Realtors

Carpeteria

Casa de Soria

Cavalier Men's

Hairstyling

Center Glass

Clarke's Liquor

College Pharmacy

Culligan

Dexter's Camera

FJ Hairstyling

Firestone Tires

Five Points Car Wash

Peking Inn

Pierpont Inn

Rayco Roofing

Reid's Appliance

Rogers Pharmacy

Salzer's

Sans Souci

Santino's Pizza

See's Candy Shop

Solari's Liquor

Star Lounge

Taft Electric

Taylor Pest Control

The Wharf

Tolman & Wiker

Tony's Pizzeria

Tri-County Locksmiths

Unique Cleaners

Ventura Leather

Ventura Locksmiths

Ventura Muffler

Ventura Townehouse

Ventura Travel

Ventura Trophy

Vic's Plumbing Supply

LEGENDS NOW GONE, BUT LEAVING MEMORIES WITH US:

Dave's Delicatessen

Derrick Room

DiFiori's Italian Deli

Don's Drive In

Dorothy's Beauty Box

Drug King

El Charrito Mexican

Restaurant

Elephant Bar

Ernesto's Mexican

Restaurant

Evita's Mexican Rest.

F. W. Woolworth

Fazio’s

Federated

Fiesta Restaurant

Fotomat

Fox Theatre

Frank's Market

Franky's Place

Franz & Franz

Rexall Drug

Fuddrucker's

Gene Lewis

Service Station

Gin Mill

Golden China

Godley Business Machines

Grace Scott Shop

Granny's Camper Sales

Granny's Pantry

Great Eastern Dept. Store

Great Eastern Dress Shop

Green Mill Ballroom

Hal Dikes Chevron

Hamilton Diamond Co.

Harris Motor Co.

Harry's Market

Heck Music

Hemingways

Hess Hardware

Hibb's Clothing Co.

Hickey Hardware

Hickory Farms

Hi Ho Burgers

Hill's Drug Store

Hong Kong Inn

Hot Dog

House of Pies

House of Spirits

Howard Johnson's

Howery's Brake

Huck Finn Motors

Huffman Finance

Hungry Hunter

Hunt's China Shop

Imperial Savings &

Loan

Ironsides

J & M Burgers

J.J. Newberry's

Jack LaLanne's

Jack Rose Dress Shop

Jaffe's Camera

Jim & TinaÕs

Coffee Shop

John's at the Beach

Johnny's Sight & Sound

Joseph Magnin

Jue's Market

Julio's Shoe Repair

Karl's Shoe Store

Ken Dole Factory

Tire Outlet

Ken Simonson

Hi Fi & TV

Kimo's Polynesian

King & I

Kingston Florist

Kinney Shoes

Klemm's Market

KUDU Radio

La Casita

Spanish Food

Laura Louise

School of Dance

Leon Walker Furniture

Lindsay Insurance

Loops Restaurant

Sewelson & Cooper

Carpets

Sgt. Peppers

Shade Decor

Shakey's Pizza

Shopping Bag

Small World

Smarty Look

Snooty Fox Antiques

Spinnaker Seafood

Sportsman

Standard Beauty

Supply

Stellar's Jewelry

Straw Hat Pizza

Strimple's Bakery

Swanee's Drive-In

Swedish Kitchen

Tam O' Shanter

Ted & Bob's

Auto Repair

Ted's Sizzlin' Steaks

The Castle

The Gym

The Hub

The Stardust

The Taco House

The Windsor Shop

Thermo Heating

ThriftiMart

Tickertape

Tipps Thai

Toby's Kitchen Store

Tog N' Jean

Top Hat

Towne & Country

Drive In

Travis Music

Trueblood's

Union National Bank

United Engraving

Universal Ford

Vagabond Coffee Shop

Van Gundy Jewelers

Valley Federal Savings

Ventura Book Store

Ventura Department

Store

Ventura Florist

Ventura Harley

Davidson

Ventura Lumber

Ventura Motors

Ventura Nursery

Ventura Printing

Ventura Radiator

Ventura Savings &

Loan

Ventura Toys

Ventura Typewriter

Vetco Offshore

Video Super Shop

Village Kite & Toy

Von's Flower Shop

Vreeland Cadillac

Warren's Restaurants

Weatherly Motors

Weber & Cooper

Auto Sales

Weiner Works

Wellman Jue's

Paradise

Westland Savings &

Loan

Wheaton Plastics

Whipple Chrysler

Plymouth

White Bib

William Dennis

Surf Shop

Willi Walker's

Sewing Center

Willis & Griffith

Insurance

Woolworth's

Worldwide Travel

Yankee Clipper

Youngsterville

Young's Fix It Shop

Your City Market

Zdenek's Plantation

A & E Printing

A & W Root Beer

Drive In

A&P Market

Admiral's Table

AdRay's

Akron

All American Sporting

Goods

All Pro Sporting Goods

Allied Construction

American Commercial

Bank

American Theatre

American Welding

Andy's Barbeque

Heaven

Art & Jenny's Sewing

Machine Center

Art's Barber Shop

Arvind's Bar & Grill

Ashton's Market

AVCO Savings & Loan

Avenue Hardware

Austin's Upholstery

Shop

AVCO Savings

Avenue Bowl

BJ's Steak & Lobster

Bahn's Jewelers

Ban Dar

Bananas

Bank of A. Levy

Bank of California

Barber Ford

Barr's Bakery

Barrel Inn

Batten's Bootery

Beck, Brown & Dwire

Bell Mattress

Bell's Country Store

Beno's

Bergers

Big Al's Old

Mountainhouse

Big Green House

Bill Arnold's Drug Store

Blair's Cafe

Blue Chip Stamp Redemption Store

Bob's B & L Tire

Bob Stuart's Toyland

Brands Buena

Pharmacy

Brass Knob Restaurant

Breezin' Surfboards

Brigham's

Broadway

Brookside Winery

Buena Barber Shop

Buffalo Bill's Bar-B-Q

Buena Stationers

Buena Theatre

Bush Drug Co.

California Office

Equipment

Captain's Table

Cardona's Liquor

Carpet Town

Cartwright's

Casa Maria's

Chapparal

Charley Brown's

Chick's Spudnut

Children's Bootery

Children's Shoe Corner

Chinese Garden

Restaurant

Circus Wagon

Cleck's Beef & Bourbon

Coast Hardware

Coco's Recreation

Village

Colonial Flower Shop

Commercial & Farmers

National Bank

Copymat

County Stationers

Crawford Chevrolet

Crocker Bank

CrossroadsDarden &

Randall Buick

Lou Munding's 76

Louis A. Snow

Love's Wood

Pit Barbecue

Lowell's Town &

Country

Lumber City

Mary Michel's Clothing

Masterson Motors

Maxwell's Restaurant

Mayfair Market

Mayfair Theatre

McConica Motors

Mel's 577 Club

Merle's Drive In

Merryman's Dry

Cleaners

Mets Nursery

Milanos

Mills Jewelers

Minnie Pearl's

Mission Theatre

Mode-O-Day

Moe's Barber Shop

Mohr's Furniture

Molnar Bros. VW

Service

Montgomery Ward

Mound Nursery

Muntz Stereo

Mr. Lucky's

Music Box

Neilsen Tire

Niederhauser Cadillac

Noren's Market

Noyes Plumbing

Old Mexico

Old Vienna

Opal Fort Cleaners

Otwell Oil Tools

Pacific 101

Drive-In Theatre

Pacific Stereo

Palace Barber Shop

Paramount Bootery

Paris Cleaners

Party Palace

Pastry Palace

Pat's Cafe

Peacocke Carpet Co.

People's Lumber

Pet World

Pet N Basket

Petro Shore Travel

Pier Fish House

Piggly Wiggly Market

Pirates Den

Pizza Palace

Plaza Players Theatre

Plum Lift A Door

Poinsettia Bowl

Postal Instant Press

Prosser's Bread Co.

Pump Room

Rain's Shoe Co.

Red Balloon Restaurant

Red Hen Restaurant

Rendezvous

Roller Station

Ronald Banks

Men's Wear

Rose Department Store

S&H Green Stamps

Safeco Title

Safeway Markets

Santa Clara House

Santa Cruz Markets

Santa Paula

Savings & Loan

Saticoy Meat Packing

Sawyer College

Schafer Sporting Goods

Scotch & Sirloin

Scott's Apparel

Schreiber's

Seafood & Beverage

Seaview Restaurant

on the Pier

Security Pacific Bank

Servisoft Water

Conditioning

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Five Points Liquor

Foster Freeze

Fred Short Realtor

Golf N Stuff

Greek Restaurant

Green Thumb

Green's Entomological

H & H Liquor

Herald Printing

Hilford Moving & Storage

House Paper

John Pence Building

Specialties

Johnnie's Mexican

Food

Keynote Lounge

Lights Beautiful

Lynn's Jewelry

Mac's Upholstery

Mandell's Liquor

Matilija Water

Meta Market

Offshore Crane

Oilfield Service &

Trucking