OUR BUILDING

The 1937 warehouse Memory Den inhabits was originally a meat and produce distribution center for many years. The train that runs behind the building to this day would actually stop and unload meat directly into the basement via the infamous meat chute, though that access has long since been bricked and boarded up. You can find an original framed blueprint of the grocery that was located on the top floor in the customer bathroom near the clock wall.

View of a building labeled 'Pacific Fruit & Produce Co.' with parked trucks and vans outside, with train tracks in the foreground.

For a few years in the 1970s, the building was used as indoor batting cages. You can still find remnants from these days all around the upstairs area; homebases painted on the floor, the odd baseball on a windowsill. Keep an eye out!

The building then became Coast Auto Supply beginning in the early 1980s. Coast Auto Supply closed its doors in 2017, and the building sat vacant for five years until Memory Den opened in July 2022.

A busy street scene in front of a store called Coast Auto Supply, with cars parked along the road and a man in a suit walking and reading a paper. The store sign reads 'Everything for the Auto,' and small signs in the windows advertise auto mirrors, hubcaps, mechanics tools, lenses, paints, enamels, and ignition parts.