Michael D's Café
598 Los Angeles Ave, Moorpark, CA
Michael D’s Café was a diner right besides the highway that is Los Angeles Ave. It was the Sunday brunch place, serving yellow eggs and crispy hash browns. They had expanded before their closing, and perhaps it was Covid that shut them down, or simply life, but its absence went unnoticed until things began to move again in the world.
Now, Sundays are spent in a different diner with decent food despite the eggs that make me nauseous.
The diner now lays bare with blacked out windows and suddenly the large parking lot felt so much more empty. The only cars visiting were from the drive-thru of Pollo Loco.
One More Time
220 E High Street, Moorpark CA
One More Time was a thrift shop that was run by local Moorpark senior citizens. Now it rots under the pepper trees, covered in fallen foliage and engulfed by erosion. What was once filled to the brim with old items, awaiting the chance to be picked up again, is soon to be a lost testimony of the past.
Moorpark Kabob Kitchen
537 E Los Angeles Ave, Moorpark CA
Kabob Kitchen was a Mediterranean restaurant that drew smiley faces on the Styrofoam boxes. It hid behind the large McDonalds, side by side from the taqueria.
Maria's Family Restaurant
104 E High St., Moorpark, CA
Washing Well
11 W Los Angeles Ave, Moorpark, CA
Hearts Of Jade
213 E High St, Moopark, CA
Hearts of Jade was open for a duration of 9 years. The building was a repurposed gas station built in the early beginnings of Moorpark itself. Their shop was a symbol of a new life for the owners, filled with the things they enjoyed together, being the succulents that grew from miscellaneous pots and antique goods.