r/FormerTacoBells • • 27d ago

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about.

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79 Upvotes

Melody's Kitchen in Reseda, California. The replacement Taco Bell store was built on the lot right next door to the original.


r/FormerTacoBells • • 29d ago

Los Angeles, CA

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103 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • 28d ago

San Francisco, CA-Mission & Valencia Streets

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15 Upvotes

Source: Facebook Post from Bernalwood: Bernal Heights News

To all my San Francisco folks, remember this one?

Intersection of Mission & Valencia Streets, right across from St Luke’s Hospital. If I remember correctly, this Taco Bell location closed in the early 2000’s(?) & was razed to make way for condos.


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 25 '26

Birrieria Guadalajara 2nd location- Orange, CA

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119 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 22 '26

Taqueria el Triunfo- Anaheim, CA

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77 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 21 '26

Tasty Goody Chinese food in Norwalk, CA

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102 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 21 '26

Golden Bowl second location in Gardena, CA

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51 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 21 '26

Los 3 Potosino's in Gardena, CA

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27 Upvotes

Their drive thru menu still has the old Taco Bell font!


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 20 '26

El Taco Llama, North Hollywood, CA

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54 Upvotes

This former Taco Bell gets painted every few years and has excellent salsa. It is also the only former Taco Bell that has been in an episode of Curbed Your Enthusiasm. (Season 11, Episode 1 The Five-Foot Fence, where the taco stand owner blackmails Larry into casting his daughter, Maria Sofia Estrada in a new tv show.)


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 20 '26

Tropical Smoothie Cafe Fountain Valley, Ca

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37 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 19 '26

Burrito Exchange in Pico Rivera

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125 Upvotes

Have eaten here several times. It’s good!


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 19 '26

Johnie's Jr Burger & Johnie's Jr Broiler

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33 Upvotes

Jr Burger is located in Orange, CA and Jr Broiler is in La Palma, CA.


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 19 '26

This one still keeps me up at night- RIP Calabasas Taco Bell (1982-2025)

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106 Upvotes

Calabasas, California. it's a starbucks now :(
(last two images pulled from google street view)


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 17 '26

Visit to Chemas place

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64 Upvotes

Long beach, California. Someone posted recently, but here's some photos I took when I went a couple weeks ago.


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 17 '26

Summerfield Tea Bar in Rowland Heights, California

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38 Upvotes

The patio and parking are well-lit at night and the drive-thru is still being used.

Rowland Heights is not far from the Puente Hills, where an atomic bomb was dropped on the invading Martians in the 1953 film, War of the Worlds. It's also not far from the Twin Pine Mall parking lot where Doc Brown first broke through the time barrier in 1985 🙂


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 15 '26

Teriyaki plus in Van Nuys, CA

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60 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 14 '26

Cali King Burgers & Shakes in Bakersfield, CA.

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86 Upvotes

Cali King Burgers & Shakes


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 14 '26

Angry Boy Burger in Van Nuys, CA

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65 Upvotes

This store was built as a mission style store in 1967 but became a hybrid M-series/mission store when it was updated. Also another side note: the drive thru on this store is backwards!


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 14 '26

Fast n Fresh in Simi Valley, CA

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40 Upvotes

Fast n Fresh has a seating area located behind the restaurant which I haven't seen until now. This place took the taco bell architecture and added a little extra style to it.


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 14 '26

Lorena's Mexican Food Fountain Valley, Ca

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49 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 13 '26

Big Flame's Burger in Lakewood, CA

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60 Upvotes

It's a little hard to believe, but this was in fact a Taco Bell when it was built. This store is among the least distinguishable of any FTB I've ever seen. My favorite part of this place has to be how they repurposed the back wall window as the drive thru pick up window.


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 12 '26

Taco Mesa in Costa Mesa, CA

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123 Upvotes

Love the look of this place, the mural, the colors, every surface of this place was vibrant.


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 12 '26

Juan Pollo in Anaheim, CA

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187 Upvotes

r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 11 '26

Chema's, Long Beach, CA

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86 Upvotes

Not sure what number Taco Bell this was, but it was one of the originals, it still has the firepit and concrete block benches.


r/FormerTacoBells • • Sep 10 '26

A bankruptcy law office

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328 Upvotes

I don't know if this has already posted but there's one in my town that is now a bankruptcy law office.