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Foster Freeze Redondo Beach, California | ||||||
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Residence of Redondo Beach will remember this Foster Freeze on Pacific Coast Highway. It is greatly missed. Please, take a second and tell us your thoughts on this painting. What others have said about Foster Freeze: My dad was the first owner of this store back in 1947. I had lots of free ice cream. That was the where I had my first real job in 1971 at the age of 12, grew up at the apt complex were the big tree is on the right hand side of P.C.H. 710, surfed Topaz with my Zapot bros I grew up in SoCal, so I know that Fosters Freeze. It still exists, only it now is at Keys St. and S. 1st St. in San Jose. Great painting, by the way. I am the one who hauled the "Cones" sign to my sister in Seattle. I also went to South School and am old enough to reember when the building was built as well as when it was torn down and have many memories of Fosters and the softies they served. When I was in high school my best friend and I used to sit on the curb in front of Fosters eating our cones and watching the cars go by. What a time capsule! I must have had hundreds of their 5 cent cones. I went to South School right across the street and saw this view everyday. I have moved to Seattle, but my sister was there when they tore it down. She was quite upset and I told her to go get a piece of it. She brought it to me the next time she flew up here. The word "Cones" as seen on the blue trim around the roof and at the left center of this painting now proudly hangs in my kitchen! It is made of wood and cut out with a jig saw and has many layers of white paint. Wow! Brought back memories for me cause I went to the school across the street from there. Saw that vision everyday. Alot of slushies were drunk there! Alot of good times after going to the beach all day. Thanks for drumming up the memories. Anita Got to have have it! So many wonderful family memories. 4 kids Mom & Dad the beach. In the evening my mother would take 1 of us to go watch the sunset with her.It was our alone time with mom, this always included a trip to Foster Freeze on the way. We all looked forward to our turn to be with her one on one. Hi Steve... I grew up in redondo beach with my old pal todd mcgough, surfin topaz and saphire street, i went to south elementary school across the street from this foster freeze, viva chili fries,your paintings are great , i too am a watercolor artist living in costa mesa ca. jim jurekovic Miss the South Bay. Redondo is not the same, but what is. I knew I had seen this before.... so much of our ICONS are gone from Redondo and Hermosa .... But the wonderful memories we shared are in this drawing ... Wonderful ;) too cool to see the old foster freeze again. unbelievable but one of the other people that left a comment lived in the same place before me 708 pch, we must of moved in after them, i lived there form 65-70, my mom worked nites so she would give me a dollar to eat there, which bought a couple of hamburgers a fry a drink acouple of 5cent ice creams and a flying saucer, i also went to south school across the street. your paintinings are fantastic and capture the mood of the redondo many of us grew up with. It was a great place to be a kid in the fiftys and sixties but very sad to see it change.I am gratefull for your paintings and plan to purchase two of them in the near future. Chocolate chip shake! Need a say more? Ted Muegenburg What a great memory! What a great painting! As far back as I can remember we went to this location for a cool or frozen treat. From the first grade on I went to summer school across the street and stopped at the Foster Freeze for an ice cream cone for my walk home. Thank you for bringing back a more innocent time. I also grew up around that area back in the 60s and 70s. My brother Mark Husar commented on the picture a while back. Myself and best friend Danny Kelley spent many a Saturday afternoon eating there after fishing at King Harbor in the morning. I would like to get a copy of this, can I. But this one, Steve, is still my favorite - it stirs good feelings in my stomach. Jim Temple Seeing this lovely painting brought back so many happy memories. In the 1970s I went to elementary school at Patterson School(formerly South School) right across the street. Usually I brought a lunch to school, but every once in a while, my grandmother would meet me at the edge of the schoolyard at lunchtime and we would walk across the street to get a burger and french fries. The burgers had a wonderful 1000-island style sauce---to this day, my aunt and I still talk about that unique sauce!! Those sweet memories of my grandmother taking me for a simple but much treasured treat are very vivid even 20 years later. She passed away many years ago, but I always think of her whenever I pass that corner of PCH and Knob Hill. Thanks for your lovely painting. NICE LOOKING SITE ONYEZE KEEP IT UPP I am a crew member of a Foster Freeze restaurant in Northern California. I have some concerns about the policies and procedures of Foster Freeze, if you have any information you can spare would you please E-Mail it to me. Wow! Thanks for the memories. My brother Steve and I hung out at Frosties fromabout '58 to '66 when I got drafted. Also went to Kindergarten at South School next door. 10 cent cokes and nickel ice creams - how could you beat it. At great stop after the beach or just hanging out at night when you were looking for a party (or an occasional drag race). I lived at 708 PCH from age 6 til teens and not only have you captured one of my favorite memories but you can almost make out the apt bldg where I lived with my mom, dad, sister and brother(he was about 6 weeks in '52 when we felt the big earthquake) and next door were cousins almost by the dozen. Thanks Iv been there and eat some food, i whint to the beack and had fun that day. I love watercolor paintings. I even paint my selfe. verey nice painting This is a great painting, and it's fascinating to read what you folks think about it and about Foster's Freeze. I volunteer with the Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Commitee (www.modcom.org) and we have been working hard for 20 years saving places like this. The 1953 McDonald's at Lakewood and Florence in Downey was a great victory. This particular stand may be gone, but it's funny that the general idea is that the entire 'lifestyle' is gone. It may be 2004, but you could still have 'one more rootbeer freeze' by going to an identical 1950's Foster's in Torrance, or in Hawthorne. You can get a .59 cent burger under actual golden arches in Downey, bowl a game at Java Lanes in Long Beach... or you can have a night out at the Vineland Drive-In theatre in the City of Industry. I have a feeling I'm much younger than some of the folks reading here, but the things you loved 40 or 50 years ago are often times alive and well just a few miles away and I encourage you to go out and support them. Check out our site and maybe you will want to support the work of the Conservancy as well. We have a big 20th anniversary driving tour coming up in September, 2004. Thank you. This is down the hill from where I lived in Redondo Beach. Just saw Fosters Freeze. My God, how many many many times I took my wife and kids (4 of them) for burgers and shakes!! Looking at the painting, I can smell the burgers with just the right amount of sea air. Jim My grandfather, John Poe, owned and operated this Foster's Freeze from the mid 50s until he passed away in August 1962. His sister and her husband, Marie and Laz Paul, then bought it and continued to operate it until sometime in the 70s. During the late 50s and early 60s, I can remember spending many summer vacations with them and got to help out at the store sweeping around the store and picking up trash and stacking stuff up in the back storeroom. My pay was a frosty cone or a slush or whatever I wanted for every two hours I worked there. I can vividly remember all the high school and college kids hanging there every Friday and Saturday night. Back in the late 40s, my grandpa, my dad and his brother made all the mix for all the Foster Freeze stores in Southern California. When they were bought out in the early 50s they were given several of the Foster Freeze stores in exchange. They were located in Santa Monica, Venice, Redondo Beach and Arcadia. What memories! I too, grew up in Redondo Beach, lived on Vincent Park, across from RUHS. From small child to RUHS days, Frosty's was always in my life. It was our "hang out" in high school... The police would come by and chase us out and we'd take off for Taco Tios at Ave C & PCH. But we'd always end up back at Frosty's. It was our "place". As a struggling new watercolorist, I hope some day my paintings are half as wonderful as yours. Jeannine Hermosa Beach The son of the owner STILL operates a Foster's Freeze in Burbank (201 S Glenoaks) and makes (arguably) the best darned burgers in the chain! My Brother and I were talking about this painting last night. The memories came back. In the middle 60's my Dad and Mom would stuff all four of us kids in the old Rambler And head down to this fine beach hang out. Usually, after dinner. My Dad would have the hot fudge sundae, Mom the pineapple sundae, and us kids the hot dipped chocolate cones. It was a fabulous time for all! I grew up in Redondo Beach and graduated from Redondo High in 1958. If my buddies and I were not sitting on the railing outside the math wing at school we would be down at Foster Freeze. Thanks for the memories. Bob Adams I grew up here in the 40's and 50's, just over the hill on Juanita Ave. Got off the school bus here and watched many adolescent fights out back, got knocked around myself on occasion... ah, the good ole days! I grew up in the Fifties just up the street from this wonderful place. I used to buy a "Slush" several times a week when I got off the school bus by South School. Thanks for bringing back such beautiful, cool blue memories. I grew up around foster freeze and visited daily for 8-10 years. Every summer day Steve Starkey, Pat Taylor, Leonard Treadwell, Bob King and I and all our friends would come by and raise hell. One October night... Halloween as I remember, we hung a mannequinn from the tree South of the corner and caused all kinds of traffic problems!! Great times, great friends and a great hangout...all are gone now! Mark A hot Summer afternoon and that smooth, cool "frostie" fighting with the salt on the lips. Body surfing at Ave. C had its crowning glory here at this memorable spot. The last of the frozen elixir slurped from the crispy cone as "Shaboom" blasted from the '51 Merc's radio. The trip home was always made sweeter by a stop at the Foster Freeze. thanks for the memories, and in such vivid, warm colors. A thousand words...... I remember the Foster Freeze as the place to get together and get a snack, we lived on Sapphire and Broadway and used to go there all the time. It is so sad to see your memories disappear, but this picture by a fantastic artist brings back the memories in such a good way. Well painted, great pictures, watercolor is hard and you make it look so easy. I too grew up in Redondo Beach, as did my parents, and for me too, Fosters is an icon. We spent many an evening, and/ or a hot afternoon there in the 60's. Oh for one more Rootbeer Freeze! Foster Freeze was an icon to many generations of Redondo Beach & Redondo Union High School students. I can still see the old foster freeze, meeting my frends there so many times throughout the years. What a shame it could not be restored but instead like all of the great old places in Redondo I too have great memories of the Foster Freeze on PCH. Whenever my sister and her friend Nancy were out and about (and off their diet) they were there. You have captured the essence of Redondo in my memory with this piece, your work is beautiful. thanks, Ali I must add my comment to the others as I, too, have many memories of Foster Freeze and all of the other landmarks that you have captured so beautifully in your paintings. Even all of these years later, Fosters' Old Fashioned Freeze memories crop up into conversations with fellow RUHS grads. (We graduated in 1957). I grew up on Knob Hill, too, and my parents used to send all 7 of us kids down to Foster Freeze on summer nights. We'd trail home, licking ice cream cones and carrying Jamocha shakes for mom and dad. My sister also worked there in the 70s, though it was getting pretty run down by then. Thanks for this painting. I will tell my sisters and brothers about it. I worked at the Denver coffee shop up P.C.H. till I could get a job at Foster Freeze. The Beach Boys were singing about the girls that would stop there going or coming from the beach. I worked behind the ice cream window in 1965 & 1966. All my friends from RUHS would hang out in the parking lot at night.I love this painting. Thank you Steve. I grew up in San Pedro and Graduated from RUHS in 1960. You have brought back old, but very fond memories. Your paintings are beautiful and so vivid. Thank you again, Terry Jones Just as I remeber the area, a great memory builder in looking at this painting. i grew up on nob hill and passed this fosters every summer day, i get chills looking at it WOW, THIS IS SUCH A MEMORABLE PLACE OF MY CHILDHOOD FROM 9 YEARS OLD AND ON, I SPENT ALMOST EVERY HOT SUMMER AFTERNOON THERE EATTING HOT DOGS & DRINKING AND ROOTBEER FLOATS AFTER A HARDY GAME OF VOLLEYBALL DOWN ON KNOB HILL. WHAT A GREAT WEBSITE, THANK YOU !!!!!! I WILL BE SURE TO VISIT OFTEN, YOU TOUCH ON MANY IMPORTANT PLACES OF MY YOUTH IN REDONDO/PALOS VERDES AND SAN PEDRO & NOW THAT I LIVE IN COLORADO IT IS NICE TO KNOW I HAVE A PLACE I CAN REFLECT TO WHEN I BECOME HOMESICK. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. KARIN Giclée prints that can be purchased featuring Foster Freeze:
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