Orange County looks to redeem its fabled Road to Summer, one seedy motel at a time
Jodie Mosley remembers when Beach Boulevard lived up to its reputation as Orange County's Road to Summer.
Starting in the 1950s and for decades after, it was an ambling corridor for locals and tourists in search of good-hearted fun. Families knew it as the gateway to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, where they could gobble the famous fried chicken and whoop through the thrilling final drop on the Timber Mountain Log Ride. And beachgoers knew it as the most direct route to the sandy shores and celebrated swells of Huntington Beach.
"We had relatives visit from New York and we would go to Knott's Berry Farm, the California Alligator Farm and the beach together," said Mosley, 61, a lifelong Anaheim resident. "Driving down Beach, you would see people with surfboards on their cars."
In the boom years, Beach Boulevard's drawing power supported dozens
