I remembered something unanswered from yesterday. From DR Jane:
DR Chas Orange Julius. When I think of Orange Julius today I am not impressed. When I think of it from my childhood, charming and delicious.
I only had it had two locations. My mother and I would stop at the drug store counter, sit at the counter and have an Orange Julius along with a sandwich or hot dog.
Later I would get them at Stan's, who made them extra special. If I also got a hot dog then I would sit at the counter to eat, otherwise it was either sit to drink & chat with Stan or get it to go.
It's actually a little surprising that I only positively remember ever having it in three places: (1) On Hollywood Blvd., where I discovered it on moving there in summer 1972. I think it was a stand, not a real walk-in place. I always picture it on the north side of the Blvd., but I believe it was actually just to the left (east) of the New-View. (2) Stan's, my favorite. A chili dog and a Julius and a donut or two there are something I'd kill to have now. (3) Wilshire and Beverly Dr. - or was it Canon? - north side of Wilshire, on the first floor of the office building right there at street level, in the mid-to-late 70s.
Fast forward about 40 years and I'm walking through a mall here one day, and there was a modern-day incarnation of Orange Julius. I knew this was going to end up being a waste of a couple of bucks, but I had to do it -- I had just the orange drink, which of course was nothing close to what I remembered from L.A. That wonderful taste and texture were a thing of the past.
