An Old Towne Gets Through Today’s Challenges

Lisa Ackerman-Baldwin (L) fills out a receipt for a customer inside her recently reopened A&P Collectibles store in Old Towne Orange, Calif., on May 30, 2020. Chris Karr/The Epoch Times

ORANGE, Calif.⁠—Old Towne Orange in California is a place of antiques and curiosities—most of its buildings are more than 100 years old and house small specialty shops. 

It’s not a place for essential services. It’s a place for leisurely days of window shopping and dining in cozy restaurants—the kind of days people have yearned for amid stay-at-home orders.