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Nestled among the Coyote Hills and steeped in local history, Fullerton Homes are often homes that appear almost cottage-like and like cottages of England, are much larger inside than they first seem from the outside. Many homes have been fully remodeled, or even re-constructed. Ample lots and larger homes, each with distinct uniqueness populate the streets surrounding a quaint but bustling and energetic downtown. Fullerton is uniquely flavored by its oil industry past as one of the main train stops in the early 1900s. Several colleges including CSUF and Fullerton College bring in a dense local population of students- many who live in Fullerton homes year round. It’s a town where people settle in and stay. Often the colleges expose people to the community who then fall in love with it and stay.

Downtown Fullerton engenders the old and new all at once in a unique blend of college life and history. One of the main terminals during the area’s oil industry days, Fullerton has retained many of its old landmarks from the train station to the police station, not to mention Fullerton College where students arrived in canoes in the hundred year flood of 1938, when most of Orange County found itself flooded. Fullerton shops restaurants and entertainment share a long tradition of blending new and old. The day I took this video, we ate at Rutabegorz, established 40 years ago and still serving up 70s fare in a 90s environment- solar powered. Plummer Auditorium finished up the night in an excellent dress rehearsal of Brigadoon. Shot with the new Canon 550D T2i, which I’m still learning. The creative modes are every bit as varied as you expect from an SLR camera.