{"id":25404,"date":"2018-09-09T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25404"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T22:59:20","slug":"california-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-store\/","title":{"rendered":"California Products Featured in New Seal Beach Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/leestore.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Lee Ostendorf, proprietress of Main Street Mercantile, says her new store is a &#8220;dream-come- true.&#8221; \u00a0While growing up in Long Beach she\u00a0loved coming to Seal Beach. &#8220;This town just has the right vibes! It feels like home here,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People are so friendly and I love the store location&#8211;in the back of Brita&#8217;s Old Town Gardens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/shopping\/seal-beach-mercantile.html\">Main Street Mercantile<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>By Chris MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s newest store&#8211;which features many products made in &#8220;the Golden State&#8221;&#8211;just opened in Old Town Seal Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Main Street Mercantile, 223 \u00bd Main St., has pepper plant garlic-based sauces from Gilroy; olive oil and spices from Temecula; cakes made in Fullerton (from a grandmother&#8217;s recipes); quilts, tote bags and little girls&#8217; dresses created by 89-year-old Betty Smith of Lakewood; soaps and lip balm from a Signal Hill mother and son; Southern California jewelry made from recycled sea glass; macadamia nuts grown in Fallbrook; vintage t-shirt reproductions (one featuring an old photo of the Queen Mary) by a Fullerton designer; reproductions of Seal Beach landmarks by a well-known Sunset Beach artist \u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/shopping\/seal-beach-mercantile.html\">Discover this new &#8220;find&#8221;<\/a> that&#8217;s worth the time to see!<\/p>\n<p>About:\u00a0Lee Ostendorf operates Local Harvest Certified Farmers&#8217; Markets (localharvestfarmersmarkets.com) in Los Angeles and Orange Counties:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bixby Park (Tuesdays &amp; Saturdays)<\/li>\n<li>Marine Stadium (Wednesdays)<\/li>\n<li>San Pedro 6th Street (Fridays)<\/li>\n<li>Buena Park Downtown\u00a0Mall (Saturdays)<\/li>\n<li>Old Town Garden Grove (Sundays)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She formerly operated Surf City Nights and Peter&#8217;s Landing Local Harvest Farmer&#8217;s Market in Huntington Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Lee Ostendorf, proprietress of Main Street Mercantile, says her new store is a &#8220;dream-come- true.&#8221; \u00a0While growing up in Long Beach she\u00a0loved coming to Seal Beach. &#8220;This town just has the right vibes! It feels like home here,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People are so friendly and I love the store location&#8211;in the back of Brita&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25405,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404\/revisions\/25405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}