OCLB - Urban Walk in Uptown Whittier

Great Outdoors Orange County/Long Beach Chapter

presents

An Urban Walk in Anaheim

Date Sunday, January 12, 2025, starting at 10:00 AM

Contact: Frederick Brown E-mail: fredincal346@gmail.com Phone: 562-754-1838

The estimated time for this outing is two to four hours, depending on how much time participants spend at each of the sites.

Wear comfortable walking shoes and clothing, and bring a liter of water.

There are restrooms at Central Park and Public Parking nearby. The group will meet near the restrooms at 10 AM. Click here for map of the Park.

After meeting up, we will walk south on Washington, west on Philadelphia, then south Bright, west on Wardman, to Greenleaf Ave for about a half block to the Starlight Whittier Village Cinema. The building was constructed in 1932, damaged in the Whittier earthquake of 1987, then repaired and re-opened in 1990.

From the theater, our trip will take us north on Greenleaf, 4 blocks, past Hadley to the Guirado House, one of many historic houses in Uptown. At Broadway Ave, we will turn west. We will pass through a residential area with a couple of parks. When we reach the Greenway Belt which is a trail that follows the old Union Pacific railroad’s Salt-Lake route southeast from Los Angeles into Orange County we will follow it.

Our next stop will be the Cool-a-Coo Ice Cream Plant (historic Quaker Maid Creamery) which we will get to at the junction of the Greenway Belt and Hadley.

Reaching Philadelphia Street on the Greenway Trail, we will take a short detour east to see Whittier High School the facade of which was used in the 1985 movie ‘Back to the Future.’

Backon the Whittier Greenway Trail, we will walk to Mar Vista past the orange-growers packing house (King Richard’s Antique Mall).

Turning east until we arrive at the Uptown Market for a look.

Back on Greenleaf we pass the old Whittier Depot of the Southern Pacific Railroad built in 1892 about a half block north of Mar Vista.

We will head back north on Greenleaf reaching the former National Bank of Whittier Building designed by the Parkinson’s. This father and son also designed Los Angeles City Hall, Union Station and Bullocks Wilshire. The elder Mr. Parkinson also designed the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles. This building is now a food court where we will stop for lunch.

After lunch, those interested can take a walk through the Whittier College campus.

Contact: Frederick Brown E-mail: fredincal346@gmail.com Phone: 562-754-1838