McFadden Public Market

    515 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92701

    The McFadden Public Market building was constructed prior to 1919 and renovated in 1930 by the McFadden family, one of the original pioneer families of Santa Ana. Up until 2017, the Public Market building featured an arcade-style shopping complex, home to several different stores that varied throughout the 20th century. In 2017, the Public Market was renovated and converted into a food hall and late-night arcade/bar. The current architecture of the building’s facade still reflects the original design of the Spanish Colonial Revival style that was popularized during the 1930s.

     

    Sources:
    1. Leslie J. Heumann, “McFadden Public Market Evaluation,” SantaAnaHistory.com, July 23, 2001.

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    2018

    La Catrina

    Located on a billboard in the McFadden Market Place parking lot, the 15 ft. x 18 ft. mural depicts La Catrina as a white skull with flowing blue hair, two pink flowers adorning her hair, as well as a crown of yellow and orange flowers. Additionally, La Catrina has a third eye in the middle of her forehead, and she is flanked on both sides by strange machines. The mural itself was created shortly after the Public Market was transformed into the food hall/arcade that it is now, and stands as a remembrance of lost Mexican culture amidst a mechanical modern world and increasingly technological society.

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