Mock Mills of California 🌍
5987 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, Alameda
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37.84610 ,
-122.26 )
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Arcadia
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34.14024 ,
-118.03 )
- Built as a Van de Kamp's restaurant in the 1950's. Now a Denny's
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Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, North Shore
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33.34959 ,
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Buellton
(#usmock36)
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34.61151 ,
-120.19 )
Windmill Inn :
smock mill
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Appeared in the movie "Sideways"
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Capitola, Santa Cruz
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36.97353 ,
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Windmill House :
house with attached windmill sails:
"The house that Jack built", circa 1926
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Carlsbad
(#usmock9)
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33.12301 ,
-117.32 )
- Now a TGIF
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Castro Valley
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37.69245 ,
-122.08 )
Golden Tee Golfland :
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Fremont
(#usmock185)
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37.57932 ,
-121.99 )
California Nursery Historical Park Rose Garden :
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Golden Gate Park
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Outside Lands :
Temporary pair of windmills created for the Outside Lands festival
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Kingsburg
(#usmock67)
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36.51877 ,
-119.56 )
Swedish Mill Restaurant :
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Kingsburg, Fresno County
(#usmock10)
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36.51304 ,
-119.55 )
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Los Angeles
(#usmock16)
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34.04404 ,
-118.55 )
Lake Shrine :
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Los Angeles
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34.00793 ,
-118.28 )
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Malibu
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Manhattan Beach
(#usmock140)
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33.89314 ,
-118.36 )
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Milpitas
(#usmock148)
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37.44848 ,
-121.88 )
Golfland :
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Pismo Beach
(#usmock183)
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35.15289 ,
-120.67 )
smock mill
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looks to be the pool house, right on the cliff top
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Ramona
(#usmock182)
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33.01389 ,
-116.95 )
Mount Woodson Castle :
The windmill may at one time have been capable of pumping, but from an early period a gasolene engine was
present, and the last sails on the building were certainly not workable (and even they seem to have been
missing for a few years).
Also variously known as the Amy Strong House, Amy Strong Castle, Ramona Castle etc.
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Rodeo
(#usmock70)
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38.03586 ,
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Windmill Club :
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San Jose
(#usmock150)
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37.24973 ,
-121.86 )
Golfland :
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Santa Cruz
(#usmock59)
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36.96446 ,
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Lincoln's windmill :
Amsterdam Bicycles :
Built circa 1930. Flower bulb shop for Los Robles Farm, Later Buckhart's Candies shop. Now Amsterdam Bicycles.
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Santa Nella
(#usmock5)
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37.10922 ,
-121.01 )
Pea Soup Andersen's :
I've seen reports that some of the Pea Soup Andersen windmills were actually designed to produce
electricity - you can apparently see power output gauges in the restaurants.
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Selma
(#usmock4)
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36.57289 ,
-119.62 )
Built as a Pea Soup Andersen's restaurant
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Sherman Oaks
(#usmock155)
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34.16196 ,
-118.46 )
Castle Rock mini golf :
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Solvang
(#usmock37)
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34.59514 ,
-120.14 )
Hamlet Square :
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Solvang
(#usmock38)
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34.59615 ,
-120.14 )
Danish Inn :
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Solvang
(#usmock39)
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34.59404 ,
-120.13 )
Houses a number of shops
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Solvang
(#usmock40)
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34.59517 ,
-120.14 )
Kronborg Best Western :
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Solvang
(#usmock41)
part of a house
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Solvang
(#usmock209)
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34.60809 ,
-120.12 )
Sunny Fields Park :
The childrens climbing frame/fort has a doorway in the form of a windmill
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Solvang
(#usmock102)
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34.59578 ,
-120.13 )
Ferdinand Sorensen Windmill :
tower mill
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garden/driveway building dating from 1947, which has been there so long that the road is known as Old Mill Rd
Originally white plastered exterior walls were changed to cedar shingle covered in 1969.
The balcony railings have also changed since then, from a cross pattern to a parallel rails arrangement.
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Solvang
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I suspect this was temporary - all the photos cluster around July 2008
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Sunnyvale
(#usmock149)
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37.35497 ,
-122.01 )
Golfland :
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Tecopa
(#usmock71)
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Mock Mills - Historical Locations
East Los Angeles
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Van de Kamp :
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Los Angeles
(#usmock166)
Van de Kamp Bakery store :
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Los Angeles
(#usmock167)
Van de Kamp windmill store No. 1 :
Erected 1921 in a lot near Beverly Boulevard and Western Avenue.
Designed by Harry Oliver, a Hollywood art director
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Los Angeles
(#usmock168)
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34.11460 ,
-118.24 )
Van De Kamp - Fletcher Road :
Stood alongside the main Van De Kamp building,
on the corner of San Fernando Road and Fletcher Road in the 1930s
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Los Angeles
(#usmock169)
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34.11457 ,
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Van De Kamp - Fletcher Road :
matchbook cover
A drive in restaurant that replaced the earlier coffee shop mock mill on the same site in 1939.
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Los Angeles
(#usmock170)
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34.03813 ,
-118.14 )
Van De Kamp - Monterey Park :
Now a Carrows restaurant, and has lost its windmill tower.
Retained the windmill in the late 1990's when it was a Tiny Naylors restaurant.
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Los Angeles
(#usmock171)
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34.07851 ,
-118.12 )
Van De Kamp - Alhambra :
Now the Savoy restaurant.
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Los Angeles
(#usmock172)
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33.79320 ,
-117.91 )
Van De Kamp - Anaheim :
Now a Covered Wagon restaurant - tower demolished when restaurant remodelled from round to square floorplan.
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Los Angeles
(#usmock175)
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34.06359 ,
-118.36 )
Van De Kamp - Beverly Hills :
On a Vons supermarket
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Los Angeles
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Van de Kamp - various :
Trying to track all the various Van de Kamp windmill bakeries / restaurants is pretty difficult,
so this is a catch all entry for them for the moment.
These peaked at 320 bakeries and outlets, three coffee shops, plus a drive-in restaurant.
Major locations for these were Los Angeles and Seattle.
Coffee shops and drive-in locations given on various ads.
San Fernando Valley Plaza - 6261 Laurel Canyon near Victory, North Hollywood
Wiltshire - 5665 Wiltshire Blvd
Fletcher Drive - at San Fernando Road
Pasadena - 1696 East Colorado
Northridge - 18460 Roscoe Blvd at Reseda
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Norwalk
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33.92150 ,
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- Built as a Van de Kamp's restaurant in the 1950's. Became a Norms hamburger restaurant, but demolished sometime between Jan 2012 and Oct 2014.
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16/09/2025
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