Been here many times and it is really a great place to visit. You will be here all day as there is so much to see. Bring water and a lunch. They have a picnic area under a grove of oak trees.

My mechanic still services a Helms Truck that one of his customers owns.

Love seeing these iconic locations . The old westerns are my favorite . Thank goodness for the classic tv stations that air all these great shows. And thank you for this video !

I grew up in Mar Vista which was a couple miles away and remember driving by this beautiful building with my father on Venice Blvd on our way to a Dodgers game. My father was not a fan of the freeway so we took Venice to Figueroa to Sunset to what is now Vin Scully Way. In addition to Helms, there were so many old classic buildings to see on our way to the game. They are probably gone now 😢. Thank you for sharing.❤

Fascinating! Thanks Graham I would love that! Go to our website and give me your info : www.bestofcal.tv

Love the segment. New subscriber. Third video. Reminded me of California Gold which I grew up with. It was common “Bob” would be stolen in our small city putting him on a roof for senior prank. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

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Pat, this is the first time for me commenting even though I followed you on here for quite a while... Like you I have spent a long-ime in HOLLYWOOD but now retired, had various jobs for all the studios including having been a studio historian for MCA-Universal City Studios and later 20th Century-Fox. My uncle was asst. manager at MGM British, and I'm British but came out here in 1976, and my daughter is third generation and works at Disney... When UI first came out here I lived in Burbank, and I knew the name well before Rowan & Martin's "beautiful downtown" iconic line... I knew it from watching the old Warner Bros. TV shows I saw in the late 1950's on British TV. You are a natural for these informative trips down memory lane that really highlight whats made California so iconic. Your variety of topics keeps us all coming back for sure, and your infectous energy and interest gets us all thinking. I used to give very special HOLLYWOOD VIP tours on weekends years ago, tours that were not the usual "take-you-for-a-ride kind, but to location sights and movie ranches. Today's CGI/AI HOLLYWOOD is totally different to both of us, as we came in at the tail-end of the old Studio System, and Disney was Walt Disney Productions and the old-timers were still running their own departments! Anyway, I live just 15-minutes away from Bob's Big Boy, so we just have to get together if you feel so inclined. So, keep up the good work and I wish you and your family a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

I should have been clearer......I like Pats "gift wrapping". "style" better than this instructor was giving him credit for. :)

Those trucks with the wood drawers full of doughnuts visited our street in Bakersfield in 1963. As an 8 yr old, we loved those guys!

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I grew up in Riverside in the 50's and early 60's and when the Helms truck came down our street my mom, my sister and I would be out there waiting. Always got pretty much the same things: jelly doughnuts and glazed doughnuts. I've never found any to equal those by Helms. I thought every kid knew about Helms until I met people later in life from any place outside of southern California. They had no idea what I was talking about. That's when I realized Helms was our own southern California company.

I get up on Helms Bakery goods. It was the highlight of our day. All the neighborhood kids looked forward to that truck with its family whistle coming down the street. Does anyone remember the "Bridge Cookies" one of my moms favorites. The donuts were to die for and the bread was always fresh and delicious. Yeah, I did the school field trip thing too! Thank you for preserving such a wonderful place that brought tasty memories to so many ❤❤❤😊😊😊

When I was a kid in Pacoima,we would have a Helmans truck drive around with all baked goods and doughnuts!!!! I miss that yellow truck

Ahhh big bear, Lake Arrowhead.. 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤

The Rifleman had a lot of the same folks and others like Dennis Hopper, Sammy Davis Jr., and Mako. Funny thing was The Rifleman portrayed Chinese, Japanese and Blacks as heroic, tough and intelligent. It ran from 1958-1963 and I remember lynchings in that time period when I was a kid.

I remember my mom taking us there when we were little kids🥰🤗 I went in the 60s

Love this coverage Pat!!!

Interesting!

Wow, yet another VERY cool episode of Best of California!

They used to make cookies that were like today's Milano Wafers. I used to fake being sick to stay home when the Helm's truck came so I could get a box on the house tab. We did a tour of the bakery in like 3rd or 4th grade, it was pretty cool. My grandfather was a baker that used to supply all the roach coaches in South Bay with pastries.

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We lived way out in the boonies on the Irvine Ranch and the Helm's guy only came by once a month. When he opened the back door of the 'truck' it smelled heavenly. Their cream puffs were to die for, my favorite.

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Ellwood Oil Field, a large oil facility and storage site near Goleta, California on Feb 23, 1942 fired 16 shells by a Japanese submarine I-17 when it surfaced. Damage was minimal.

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Thanks for visiting us Pat!

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Excellent show, the blimp hangers, Japanese submarines off the coast of California, artillery in the hills above San Pedro, wow. I took the tour of the USS IOWA in San Pedro, very cool tour. Thanks Pat for this walk down WWII in So Cal memory lane. Loved the description of the medals and items on your Dads uniform.

Love it.

Best of California is such a fun and interesting show!

The enemy attacked two sea-borne oil tankers, farther up the coast from Goleta, days later. One of which was sunk. At a different date, which excapes me, there was a trio of enemy subs, on the surface in a remote cove in the NW of Catalina, which was spotted by a patrol in a speedboat, not the kind of which that could attack. Apparently, no radio, so by the time they got back to Hamilton or Avalon, and search planes and surface ships could be dispatched, the subs had disappeared.

I drive past the Tustin Hanger every week. For Naval history fans, we also have the USS Iowa in San Pedro. The USS Midway in San Diego was just a little too late for WWII, but it was built in that era. Both are great tours.

Thanks Pat! What a great video.

Man, you have the world by the tail on a downhill pull.

OMG! I loved Van de Kamp's. Raspberry tarts and mini pecan pies. Used to go to the Hughes, on Sunset in the Palisades, after school. Get the three-pack of pecan pies and a gigantic 16 oz glass bottle of Coke. Those windmills were everywhere, in supermarkets and free-standing restaurants.

Awesome facts!!! Learned something new

Precious memories of Long ago

If you want to see some animals at the farm, you must practice your animal sounds.

2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Jocko’s.

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Thanks Lisa! This place is the best!

I used to live in Rosemead Calif, And i remember a helms truck used to still be selling donuts on the 80s