THE ASSOCIATION performed at Gold Street in the mid-60s.

Latest in a series on the “Forgotten Wonders” of West Orange County.”

Any OG Garden Grovers remember Belisle’s Restaurant at Harbor Boulevard and Chapman Avenue; it was the city’s most famous eatery for nearly a half-century, well-known for its brownies the size of your head and whimsical slogans on the marquee such as “Five out of four eat here.”

Not nearly as well-known is a spin-off called Harvey’s Gold Street, located for a while at Beach and Garden Grove boulevards.

Successful as a restaurateur, Harvey – the father of the Belisle clan – decided to capitalize on the rising musical trends of the mid-Sixties – and open a night club and eatery in an old red barn-like structure and start booking some of the better- and lesser-known acts of the folk, rock and soul music of the time.

The place soon resounded to the sounds of The Association, Sonny and Cher, Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, The Righteous Brothers, Little Anthony and the Imperials and the Ventures, not to mention lesser lights such as The Pretty Kittens and The Hondells and the highly original The American Beetles.

Golden Street, “where the action never stops,” did stop after a few years and became Pinnacle Peak, a western-themed steak restaurant that was famous for cutting off your neckties and hanging them from the rafters.

Pinnacle Peak eventually migrated to a former Big Yellow House restaurant on Trask Avenue between Magnolia and Brookhurst Street, and the building is now operated as The Brodard Chateau, a Vietnamese cuisine restaurant.

The original site is currently occupied with the definitely un-hip uses of a car wash, a Taco Bell and service station and minimart. What, as the hipsters used to say, a drag.