Fullerton Grows Up 1

Fullerton News Tribune – July 24, 1956 One of the biggest non-industrial developments in Fullerton since 1950 was the start of construction of the $2,200,000 St Jude Hospital. Located east of the intersection of Valencia Mesa Dr and Fullerton Road, it is situated on an 18-acre site owned by the Sisters of St Joseph, who will maintain and staff the hospital. Designed by Seattle architect John Maloney, It will be the first large hospital in Northern Orange County.

Fullerton News Tribune – January 27, 1957 Hughes Aircraft plans to build a $6,000,000 plant here before the end of the year. Principal output of the plant will be components of ground radar systems for the Army, Navy and civil airways. Key people are to be relocated here, but the objective is to hire many local people. The reason for choosing for site, picked over four other locations, was partially based on the desirability of the city as a home for Hughes’ employees.

Fullerton News Tribune – March 13, 1958 Fullerton will be the home of a new four-year state college for Orange County. A 238-acre site at the southeast corner of Cypress and Pioneer will be the setting for classes scheduled to begin in the fall of 1959. Construction may begin within the next six months. Plans now are to have temporary buildings ready for occupancy by September 1959.

Fullerton News Tribune – August 12, 1964 Plans were unveiled today for one of Southern California’s largest commercial developments, a six-building office-hotel complex scheduled to rise on the prime 10-acre site directly at Fullerton’s “Y” intersection of Harbor and Brea Blvds. To be known as the Brashears Center, the bold project takes full cognizance of Orange County’s emergence as an urban center by providing a dynamic, self-contained business community within a highly integrated master-planned complex.