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A New and Crazy Food Destination in Disneyland Will Open in 2018

2018 is just a few days away! Aren’t you excited about it and the new things and events that will happen this coming year?! Every year there is always something different, something worth waiting for and/or thinking of. There is a place wherein there is really something new to expect, in fact, it happens not just yearly but also as season changes or even if it’s just an ordinary month. Well, we do not know how they tend to come up with new things from time to time but they really do! We know that you know the place that we are talking about, as it’s one of the most magical place in California- or the world-, it is Disneyland!

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Disneyland won’t ever be a boring place as it always try its best to offer something new to its guest. It is not just in their attractions or something additional on its colorful parade but it also happen in the food that you may find the place! Yes, it doesn’t have to be Halloween or Christmas for you to find something cool and Instagrammable food and beverages in Disneyland! They are really happy to announce that this coming year, they will be welcoming a new diner in the park. This new food house really deserves a spot in Disneyland as the food and drinks they are serving in their current branches perfectly match the ambiance and theme of Disneyland. This new food house is none other than Black Tap!

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Black Tap is not new for some who have been to New York City as this restaurant serves award winning burgers and their super popular CrazyShakes! The restaurant will open its first California location next year in the heart of Downtown Disney District at the Disneyland Resort. Isn’t that exciting?! Next year, one of NYC’s most popular food house will be within our reach, no need for expensive airplane tickets! Black Tap will be creating a unique concept for its location in Disneyland. It will have an indoor and outdoor seating so if you feel like having a quiet dining, you may stay inside but if you want to enjoy your eye catching and delicious shake while watching other park guest move around, you may stay outside and have a seat. There may be some changes but the atmosphere in the place will be the same as their New York Branch! It will still contain that casual and classic American food stop but with that New York vibe!

https://www.blakelynewyork.com/restaurant.htm

We know you’re already getting thrilled with this new food house but there is something more exciting about their opening, their CrazyShakes! This is not your ordinary milkshake, as the name states- its crazy! How crazy? Well, have you ever seen a colorful Mickey Mouse designed topping on a milkshake? It’s that crazy! It’s not just that because they will be offering several more milkshake flavors with matching over the top decorations to feel your stomach, your eyes and your Instagram page! You might not resist ordering something different in each visit or you might choose to order different flavors if you will be going in a group as it is really exciting to see how each shake will be decorated. There will be shakes topped with candies, cotton candy, cookies, chocolate treats, nerds, and a lot more. This will surely satisfy your sweet tooth. Since it’s really crazy, it might get your IG followers go wild and they might want to visit the place as early as they possibly can! Aside from the shake they also have their famous burgers that may match your shake or their craft beers. You will really go out of their place with a full tummy and an unforgettable.

http://www.delish.com/food-news/videos/a46853/black-tap-sour-power-milkshake-zendaya-milkshake/

Now you know why this food stop perfectly match its Disneyland location! It will surely add more magic and excitement in the park! Disneyland really made sure that you will not just be thrilled with their rides and attractions but will also serve you meals and treats that will never disappoint you. If you have tried this in NYC or will be trying it on its first days in DTD, share your experience with us so that our readers can also know more about it!

https://www.popsugar.com/food/Black-Tap-Chloe-Vegan-Milkshake-42440197

We are really excited for this restaurant to arrive this coming 2018 and for more attractions, destinations and other surprises that Disneyland will offer!

5 Stores that Californians Grew Up With

Year after year new things come and go, new buildings are built, and some old buildings are put down, new businesses open, some closes. This is a normal thing in any part of the world. Nothing is permanent in this world, especially in the business industry. Some big time players may last long but they also have to change some things from time to time to get along with what the customers wanted and the situation needed. Those small time players sometimes last as well because of the relationship they were able to build in the community but not every year is a good year, they also have their ups and downs. But, they may have lasted or not, most of them still left a mark in our hearts and will be a great part of our past.

In California, there are several stores which had been a great part of the state’s community for years and is definitely remembered by most citizens, especially the elders. These stores are mostly groceries and department stores that had been our grandparents and parent’s favorite place back then.

Let’s go and have a trip down to memory lane. We have listed some of the stores that made a mark to some Californians. These stores are stores that those who grew up in California will never forget.

1. I. Magnin

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This might be one of the earliest department store in San Francisco. The store was founded in 1876 and was originally selling baby items and gorgeous bridal wear. Eventually, due to its success, it was able to offer other items and had been known as one of the few California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store during its time. It was also able to have several branches in Southern California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. However, the store had its fall and was sold to Macy’s in 1994, but a lot of its branched closed down even before it was sold. In October 2006 Macy's resurrected the I. Magnin name and now uses it as a house-brand label on ladies apparel.

2. Alpha Beta Supermarket

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Alpha beta was actually a chain of Super markets popular in the United States. It started in Pomona in 1917 and had been a favorite grocery shopping center in Southern California. This grocery had been passed to several owners during its years. Changes in its name happened for some time as well but no matter who owns it, it is still one of California’s favorite supermarket. But, no matter how families love it, it still went to its end in 1995. Even though it closed down, we know that it been a great part of the lives of the Californians, it may even had one of their best family bonding moments.

3. The Emporium

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This department store served the Californians for almost a hundred years. This is a popular mid-line department store in San Francisco. It’s location in San Francisco’s Market Street seemed to become a tourist and shopping destination for decades. Due to its popularity, it also operated several branches in various suburbs in Bay Area. This stored was tested by disasters during its time as a part of it was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1906, but it was able to reconstruct after two years. But, the store permanently closed down in 1996 to be redeveloped. It is now a part of San Francisco’s Shopping Center that is more popularly known today as Westfield.

4. Galco's Old World Grocery

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This store is one of the stores which had been in service for decades and still one of the favorite stores in the community it is in until now. This store is popular for selling soda pop since 1955. This stores had sold hundreds of different brands over the years, well, some of those brands might be inexistence nowadays. It really saw brands and flavors come and go. The store is a small store that also support small brands and businesses. Today, Galco’s is offering more than 700 flavor of soda pop that this generation is enjoying.

5. Soap Plant Wacko

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The Soap Plant started as a small business in 1971. By 1984, owners began to see potential to expand by acquiring a couple of vacant storefronts next to Soap Plant, which lead directly to the opening of the WACKO. This gigantic 6,000 square foot warehouse served as the only pop culture toy shop with a pop rock attitude. Well, you can easily say that these is one cool shop even if you’re outside the store. So if you want a unique or a gift that will give a blast from the past, this is one of the best place to be at.

If you had been to some of these stores and other long-lived and loved stores, share your picture with us so others can see the beauty of these stores back in the days!

California Memes that Can Make Your Day

We always see a lot of things posted in social media. There are actual news and there are those fake ones which are sometimes polluting the minds of their readers. Well, that’s one of the saddest truth that the improvement in technology had brought to the society. The fact that each and everyone of us now has access to the online world makes it easier for others to manipulate the minds of people and/or makes it easier for some to spread lies to put others down. Well, there are only few groups or individuals who do this types of things but the power of the internet spreads it faster than the wind. But hey, not everything we see in the internet is bad! There are actually a lot of greater things that we should spread more than those fake news. There videos of people going good deeds to help those who need it most, there are videos of talented people who wanted to be noticed or somebody wants us to notice them, there are life hacks that may help us in our everyday life. Well, there are really lots of things found over social media that can really make or ruin your day but of course we must choose the things that could make us happy.

One thing that can make us laugh when we see it are the funny memes. Yes, the funny pictures match with some statements. Well, not all memes has funny pictures, but the statement match with it is enough to make us laugh or smile. According to an article, a 'meme' is a virally-transmitted cultural symbol or social idea. And also, majority of modern memes are captioned photos that are intended to be funny, often as a way to publicly ridicule human behavior. But other memes can be videos and verbal expressions. Some memes have heavier and more philosophical content. Memes can be about an event, a person or a place. And having that said, did you know that here are several memes made for California?

We searched thru the internet and found several memes regarding the state! Some are good enough to make you smile, some will make you laugh but some might be too much that it might not be funny anymore. We want everyone to have a good day so we have collected some of the memes that we know you can relate to and might make you giggle realizing that it really is the truth or just because the images are hilarious enough.

1. Here are memes that shows that living in California is expensive.

Yes, rental houses, even rooms are too expensive in California! It might be a bit exaggerated but hey, prices for rents and even in buying a house and lot is really costly in California. Let’s just hope it won’t really end up with these type with that rate, fingers crossed!

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2. Slangs from California

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3p37u0

Here’s a funny photo,

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/169448004707488271/

3. Temperature and Season

Well, we all know that California’s weather is warmer than the other states and maybe that’s the reason why there are tons of memes about it.

When the temperature goes down to 63 degrees…

https://onsizzle.com/i/californians-be-like-ns-63-this-is-me-%F0%9F%98%AC-6900056

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/colorado-memes/

Yes, Colorado and California is both in the United States but the feeling is different when temperature changes.

When the season is changing but the temperature in California is not…


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When everyone else in United States are in full winter attire and people are California are just in…….


https://me.me/t/winter-in-california

Here’s another,

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/521925044295784303/

Well, you really need to go somewhere specific in California if you want to experience the snow.

4. Food and Drinks

We now how delicious wine in California is….


https://dailylolpics.com/cute/23-funny-animal-memes-and-pictures-of-the-day-9/

Aside from wine, we all know how they really love their avocados and without it, it’s like…

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Simply because…

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5. Rain and Storm
We also found tons of memes when it comes to raining in California. Why? Maybe because it is one of the most uncommon weather in this state.
https://www.pinterest.com/explore/california-funny/


https://jokideo.com/tiny-bit-of-rain-meme/

6. Expectation vs. Reality

When asked “where are you from?” and you say that you are from California, they’ll think that you are from the city or living near the beach. Have they forgotten that there are other cities in California?!

http://mymemes.biz/california-meme/california-meme-3/
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These are just few memes compared to the hundreds of memes we found over the internet. So if you want to see something that will make you smile or laugh even for a few seconds, the web is just there, go and search for more funny memes!

A Fusion of Pizza and Burger in Los Angeles

People always love eating, who doesn’t? Even those who are on a fitness diet has there cheat days right?! It’s always satisfying to be able to fill our stomach with something really good. It’s like, there are times that we are really hungry but we are still looking for something specific that if we won’t be able to have it we will still feel hungry. Cravings bro! Cravings! There are times that we crave for something because it’s been a long time since we had it, sometimes we crave for it just because it’s really delicious and the week can’t be over without having a taste of it. But there are times that we crave for something because we saw it in social media. We get attracted to how it looks and the description that the video or the post is saying. Some are really delicious but there are some that is just good to look at, let’s admit that.

When it comes to burgers, we wouldn’t want to be disappointed. Especially because of the fact that this was said to be originated from the United States. Also, there are a lot of stores selling burgers, from popular fast food chains to fancy restaurants to food trucks, so if you’re burger is not good enough customers might not buy from you ever again because they have other stores to buy it from. But since the power of social media advertising is really strong, a way to attract customers nowadays is by making your food unique, delicious to look at and advertise it in social media. But still, make sure that once customers arrive, the food will be as good as it looks! Well, a restaurant in Los Angeles is really aware of this fact so they came up with something that you might not be able to resist, Meatzza! You burger bun is extremely out of the ordinary because its pizza!

https://twitter.com/MEATZILLADTLA/status/895436613081157632

Meatzilla, located at 646 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA, was created to support and fulfill the cravings of those in LA who are looking for classic burgers. And they also made sure that the price is affordable but is still with quality. The business started out with the name Meathead but eventually changed its name to after a few months. But, no matter what the name is, their tasty burgers still remained, and that is what’s important. The store is keeping it laid back with their hand pressed Angus Chuck beef patties, fresh ingredients and home-made sauces.

https://dtlaexplorer.wordpress.com/2017/06/20/what-do-you-get-when-you-cross-a-hamburger-and-a-pizza-find-out-at-meatzilla-in-dtla/

We know you’re wondering where the Meatzza we are talking about is, well it is all over the store. Yes, every burger is available in Meatzza style! It’ll be choosing at your own risk but no worries, everything is really good at this place. If you think you made a wrong decision when you changed your bun into a pizza, just wait until you try it because you might not regret having it. These mini-pizza bun is actually made from the ordinary burger bun. What made it different is that it was covered with tomato sauce, Muenster and Mozzarella cheese and topped with mini peperoni’s as well to give it a complete pizza look and taste! Trying this bun out will be a great fusion of taste and flavor in every bite without making it taste over powering.

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Since all burgers can be turned to Meatzza Style, wouldn’t you want to try their BEEF! BEEF! Burger? This burger is already a double burger. Double beef and double cheese and turning it into a meatzza will be something extreme! Why? Well, when would be a double burger plus a pizza be ordinary? This is still actually a normal mix at the store because there are other flavors here that you might want to try. They have Kimchi in some of their burgers, wouldn’t that be exciting to try with a pizza bun?! You might also want to try the spicy burgers, this time there’s no need for you to get a chili sauce for your pizza!

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Whatever you choose, whether you like it in the ordinary bun or with a pizza bun, whatever flavor of burger you choose, its fine. Eating will always be an adventure. There will always be new discoveries so why not discover it now and you might be able to create a unique flavor of your own as time passes by.

A Bouncy Playground for All Ages!

Have you ever dreamt of being able to fly or jump so high to reach the sky? Who didn’t? Those superheroes are one of our first idols. When asked of who they want to be when they grow up, some says that they wanted to be like Superman, or Ironman or any superheroes they grew up watching. But as they grow old they tend to know what is real and what is not. Yet, let’s admit that from time to time we still wonder how will it feel if we can fly? Though there are airplanes that allows us to view the land while flying in the sky, it will still be amazing to be able to do it every single day!

Since flying high seems to be impossible as of the moment, but we know that as technology improves it may happen, jumping high will be the closest thing we can do to reach higher. Trampoline is the tool we can use for us to be able to jump higher that we normally do. Some may thing that the fabric is stretchable but it’s not. The elasticity is provided by the springs that connect it to the frame, which store potential energy that allows you to reach higher every you exert additional force when you fall down to the fabric.

Nowadays, trampolines are used not just as a backyard playground. Some puts net around it and fill it with small balls that will work like a ball pit for kids to play in. The cool thing is, it will not just be full of balls but will be a bouncy pit as well. Aside from entertainment, it is also used in competitive sports and some cross training for other sports.

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Since trampoline can be a source of entertainment and is also a good way of exercising, wouldn’t it be nice to have an entire place full with it? Bounce, Bounce, Bounce, bouncing all the time! Well, since bouncing is next to flying and it’s really a fun thing to do, there are several trampoline playhouse or parks that are opening almost everywhere! California will never be left behind when it comes to trendy place, activity, food and everything so we guess you now know that they also have one huge trampoline playhouse in their state!

https://www.mommynearest.com/edition/bay-area/article/must-do-house-of-air-in-san-francisco

https://www.mommynearest.com/edition/bay-area/article/must-do-house-of-air-in-san-francisco

House of Air Adrenaline Park can be found in two cities in California. There is one in San Francisco and one in Carlsbad. House of Air is an indoor Adrenaline park open not just for athletes or adults but for anyone, young or old as long as jumping is your passion. Inside the place there are several attractions. They have the Open Jump where you can continuously jump up and down and even sideways since it is with angled trampoline walls as well. Wouldn’t that be fun? Jump until you drop! But if you’re going to the place with friends or the whole family, you might want to try their Trampoline Dodgeball! These might be the best sport invented in trampolines! Jump as high as you can to avoid being hit by the ball! Who knows, this might be the best training ground for you or your kids to be able to enter the dodgeball leagues! Besides, big dreams starts from small beginnings right?! For the kids, there is also a designated area for them to avoid accidents. The area is for kids 3-6 years old.

https://houseofair.com/

http://www.zipcar.com/ziptopia/locals-guide/house-of-air

Aside from this activities, there’s also a place where you can do some wall climbing on their auto-belay rock tower. If you’re in the place to improve your aerial skills, no worries, they also have professional trainers to guide and help you out. After some time in this place, you might learn some new exhibition tricks while on air! Isn’t that nice?! But, jumping on trampolines can also be hazardous so make sure you follow all the rules on the place. It wouldn’t be fun if you’ll get hurt right?! Always remember that your safety will always be the priority and that place knows that as well so they have created set of rules to follow to protect their guest.

https://houseofair.com/programs/camps/

Just in case you want to join their training camps and classes, you may visit their site for their schedule and for tickets as well. Just in case you want to celebrate your birthday or a reunion here, you may do so all well, just contact them for parties and events. Happy Bouncing!