The Original Taco Bell Building
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Top Places in IrvineOrange BalloonIrvine, CaliforniaPeter the Anteater StatueIrvine, CaliforniaSee All This entry is a stubHelp improve Atlas Obscura by expanding The Original Taco Bell Building with additional information or photos.Irvine, California, isn’t the place where the first Taco Bell opened (that would be Downey, a city about 30 miles northwest of Irvine), but Irvine has something a bit stranger to its name. Since 2015, a nondescript parking lot behind the Taco Bell headquarters has been the home of the original Taco Bell building.Closed and at risk of being demolished in its original Downey location, “Taco Bell Numero Uno” was uprooted and driven down Interstate 5 to the Taco Bell headquarters, where it has sat locked and empty ever since. There’s been talk of eventually finding a new place to put it, but for now it occupies its humble patch of asphalt, resting silently in the shadow of the corporate behemoth that it spawned.Know Before You GoThe Taco Bell rear parking lot i...