{"id":1514,"date":"2015-04-09T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2015-04-09T17:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:17:53","slug":"james-deans-last-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/james-deans-last-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"James Dean\u2019s Last Stop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1518\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1518\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1518\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0223-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"dean photos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial to James Dean &#8220;Too fast to live, too young to die, bye bye.&#8221; Eagles<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1517\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1517\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0216-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"diner photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside of present day diner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Brenda Magana<\/p>\n<p>A general store located at Blackwell\u2019s Corner by the intersection of State Highways 33 and 46 was where famous 50\u2019s movie star James Dean made his last stop before his fatal car accident a few miles further down the road. James Dean was driving his Porsche 550 Spyder, which he named \u201cLittle Bastard,\u201d to Salinas, California, to attend a car race.<\/p>\n<p>The last things Dean was able to enjoy before his unfortunate death was an apple, a Coca-Cola and the fresh country air. After his death, the general store changed its name to \u201cJames Dean\u2019s Last Stop!\u201d in memory of the famous actor. Remodeled in 2010, the store added a \u201cForever Young Restaurant\u201d and \u201cEast of Eden Fudge Factory\u201d to keep James Dean\u2019s memory alive.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant offers classic food such as cheeseburgers and fries, patty melts, Frito boats, club sandwiches, milkshakes, floats, and other classic 50\u2019s diner fare. The fudge factory offers 30 delicious and creative flavors to choose from. Maple nut, peanut butter chocolate, cookies n\u2019 cream, chewy praline, red velvet, rocky road, you name it, they have it! The factory also sells homemade bark and \u201cAshers\u201d delicious chocolates. The store also sales locally grown pistachios, almonds, cashews, walnuts, and pecans. The pistachios and almonds are offered in a variety of flavors as well. They sell hickory, BBQ, habanero, chili lemon, garlic onion, roasted, salted, and more. Last but not least, they also carry some of Paso Robles finest wines such as Sunset Red III, Robles Rojos, Muscat Blanc, Chardonnay, and Cameo.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be passing by, make sure to check out this amazing and memorable store; trust me you won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1519\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/first-store-were-james-stoped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1519\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1519\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/first-store-were-james-stoped-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"store photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of store where James Dean made his last stop.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1521\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1521\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0207-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"fudge photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fudge for sale<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Memorial to James Dean &#8220;Too fast to live, too young to die, bye bye.&#8221; Eagles   Inside of present day diner  By Brenda Magana  A general store located at Blackwell\u2019s Corner by the intersection of State Highways 33 and 46 was where famous 50\u2019s movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}