Yorba Linda is the Land of Gracious Living so I figure

I've lived pretty graciously for a long time. There is an

official Yorba Linda home page.

This page will be real unofficial.

Yorba Linda is a sleepy little community full of horses

and trucks. My friends Sandy and Roger are typical

Yorbans with their three horses and a pickup.

The town is so sleepy that one year the local press

dubbed adding a drive-thru to the McDonald's the

number one story of the year. This year we had a grand

opening of an OSH hardware store that we're still

talking about.

The city council likes to keep Yorba Linda sleepy. A

few years back they refused to allow building of a

movie theater. Too many teenagers looped on Coca-Cola

and popcorn could cause big problems in the

community. So the theater got built right across the

street from Yorba Linda in the city of Anaheim.

There's one place in town that's not only sleepy, it's

positively dead. Yes, Yorba Linda is the home of the

Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace (and Pat and

Dick's gravesite, too). It is located on Yorba Linda Blvd.

just west of Imperial Highway. The oddist story about

the library concerns an exhibit on popular music and the

presidency. It seems that the library was going to call

the exhibit "Nixonpalooza" until Perry Farrell and the

real Lollapalooza gang threated a lawsuit. The

wacky rockers are hiring rich lawyers to threaten

poor librarians! Please explain...

Yorba Linda is now safe from monks. On March 4, 1997 the

city council decided not to approve building a Buddhist

monastery near a residential neighborhood. While the

official reason was crowds and traffic, the comments of

this Yorba Lindan says it best: "It is detestable to me

that this is being considered because God commanded his

people to rid the land of those who worship pagan gods."

(I'm not kidding -- this was from the LA Times,

OC edition, March 6, 1997, page B6.)

If you come to Yorba Linda, be sure to have a meal at

our very own Main Street Mexican/Italian restaurant

located downtown. Then travel south on Imperial

Highway (where it is officially called the Richard Nixon

freeway) to Orangethorpe. Turn left and visit an area of

Yorba Linda that the city council doesn't know about.

They must think it's in Anaheim, because there's a bar

there called the Canyon Inn where they play live rock

music and people make noise.

(By the way, it really is a nice little town.)