RtS: Old World Village
 

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Old World Village
7561 Center Ave. #49
ph: 714.895.8020
Huntington Beach, CA
July 11 2010
http://www.oldworld.ws/


The Lowdown
A Disney experience outside the park

Food
Decor
Service

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The Gig
Dachshund races

The Grub
Lots of beer!

The Scene
In Huntington Beach. California, twenty minutes from Disneyland is a place that belongs in fantasyland. This place is vintage ****ed-up (in a good way) Orange County! Old World Village is a small German/Austrian themed outdoor shopping area with a large beer garden that we visited for the Dachshund races. For the $1 entrance fee the first 500 (of was it 50?) people get free food, for the rest of us there are many concession areas, little dogs running their legs off, also there is a German band playing all you um-pa-pa favorites a dance floor, cabaret acts . . the area is dressed to old Disney standards with something to freak you out at every turn. Normally there is no charge to enter any of the buildings:gnome: , unless there is a special event. There is a hotel on site as well as a church just in case you want to get hitched with plaster gnomes and deer looking on. If you can't come for the races, come for another event of just come have a drink in the bar, the people are very friendly. Put on your Dirndl or Lederhosen and get down there!

Sounds irresistible.

Any pics? And how often are the wiener dog races? (I'm 3000 miles away, but I'd include that in my itinerary for a visit.)

I visited the link in your post, and at the right, there is another link to the dachshund racing - and a very entertaining video about Riley, the undefeated champ. If I lived out there, I would probably have obtained a dachshund by now.

The races are Sundays at 3pm late April through October 31st
"Oktoberfest 2010 begins September 5th thru October 31st we celebrated OKTOBERFEST every Wednesday through Sunday"
There are some photos on the website and we did take a few from Brendan's Iphone but still need to download them - I will go badger him about it
- maim but not kill


OK there are some photographs http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellyda...7624478974282/ on flicker, I should warn you though my dear husband is the worlds worst photographer, he says he is finished, then takes the photo as you walk away.

OMG! It's still there?! I remember going there in the 80's. I thought it was long gone!

It's still there and looks exactaly the same. I go there for Octoberfest.

OMC is an art gallery in Old World Village curated by two really awesome people I got to know (through working at Peet's), Rolf and RoxAnn.

I highly recommend it. Go, go, go if they ever put some of their photography on display again, which I don't see on their schedule.

Oh, and they knew Steve from the Beat Hotel.

Driven by there many times and always wondered. Now it is a must see one of these days.

This sounds awesome, especially since it's outdoor, making it doable with a baby in tow.

They seem to be missing polka.

I want to hear about the cabaret acts

And the kraut rock!

what can I say, dudes in leather shorts playing horns (the band is quite good) couple dancing on the large floor between entertainment, and in addition to ladies in dirndls dancing there was yodeling, an about oh, 80 year old woman in pink tights and a pair of hot pants with beaded fringe, she had a large tray with what could have been juggling or balancing (magic?) items. I was very sorry to miss her act but the puppies were racing, and I was distracted I think Iwe will have to attend many times to see it all.

Hmmm - I think we need to put together a cabaret act...

Well, until recently I was a Cabaret bellydancer, I have LOTS of sparkly beaded stretchy, shiny, things, canes, swords, and big feather fans . . . I think I just passed the point at which I can be arrested in Utah

If I've had enough alcohol I can for real yodel.

Cynthia - I remember that lady!!

This Saturday there's an open house for an apartment to rent.

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/apa/1856923776.html

tempting . . .

As my friend who found the listing said, "Living upstairs from a German restaurant would be bad for my health."

Yes but how about as an artists studio?