Dispatch: Historic San Juan Lot 'Now Worthless'

In his latest column for the Capistrano Dispatch, historian Don Tryon explains why all the equipment has been removed from the on Ortega Highway.

Tryon reports that the landowner, Ed Franks of Pasadena, closed shop after his contract ran out with Union Oil Co. and he found out he'd lose part of the property when CalTrans acquires it for the new .

Franks, who is related to the late, inherited the land through his family. "What may have been the most valuable 40 percent of an acre in Orange County is reduced to a worthless vacant lot,” Franks told the Dispatch.

Of all the land Judge Egan owned, which was quite a bit, Frank's lot is the last remaining parcel.

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