Photographs (Then and Now): Harbor and Commonwealth 1889/2023

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon.

For this series of posts, I will find a historic photo of Fullerton and then juxtapose it with a photo of the same subject matter today, from approximately the same angle.

For this first post, I begin with one of the first photos taken of Fullerton, the corner of Spadra (now Harbor) and Commonwealth Avenue, taken in 1889 (below). Left to right, the buildings are: The Chadbourne Building (a social hall with some businesses), The St. George Hotel (which no longer exists), and Stern and Goodman’s (a general store).

Below is the corner today. Left to right, the buildings are: Salon Technique, Mickey’s Irish Pub, and Cha2O, a Vietnamese restaurant that is now closed.