Van De Kamp's Windmill, Harold Bissner 1967

            We first moved to Southern California in 1958; my father John A. Locke, had just accepted a position as Assistant Engineer at Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakery.  Moving from Portland, Oregon, my folks looked for a house close to work with good schools; they settled in Glendale, California and dad went to work everyday at the Van de Kamps plant located at the corner of San Fernando Road and Fletcher Drive.  At the time, windmill restaurants like the one above, dotted the Southern California landscape.  The restaurants always had a section where you could purchase goodies from the bakery, served by waitresses dressed in Dutch costumes.  During the summers, my brother Dave and I would accompany my dad down to the plant and give him a hand replacing the caster wheels on the carts where the baked goods were first placed for cooling and packaging.  Our reward was getting to spend time with each other and stuffing ourselves with pies and cookies from the packages that were not fit for delivery.  The architect, Harold Bissner and my dad were good friends; he was Van de Kamp's "official" architect, designing not only buildings for the bakery but private residences as well.

The Van de Kamp Windmill Restaurant is one of the few remaining and is now a Denny's restaurant located on historic Route 66 in Arcadia, California at 7 E. Huntington Drive (corner of Santa Anita Avenue) . 

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Taken in: United States / California / Arcadia / Downtown Arcadia (show map)

Taken on: July 17, 2013

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