Bean packing plant in Irvine (Tia Juana's)

A few weeks ago, I posted the above picture of an "Irvine bean packing plant," which I found in the OC Almanac (OC Public Library). It seemed to me that this is the structure one finds today along Sand Canyon and interstate 5 and houses, among other things, Tia Juana’s Long Bar and Restaurante. So, I dropped by there today and took this pic:

Looks like a match to me. (The train tracks are on the other side of the building, which is unaccessible.)

I Googled Tia Juana's and found the site for the restaurant. There, we're told:

Tia Juana’s was the perfect fit for the 1885 lima bean warehouse. Once the center of the vast Irvine Ranch, the warehouse was originally built to process the lima beans which were grown on what is now El Toro Marine Base. At harvest time, as many as 200,000 hundred-pound sacks of lima beans would be shipped all over the world from the rail line at the back of the building.

As agriculture gave way to the high-tech urban Orange County, the warehouse was restored and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tia Juana’s Long Bar and Restaurante moved in that same year [1986], using great care to preserve the original character of the building. Even when new touches, such as the murals that are painted on the walls, were added, they were installed on new wood, which overlays the old, leaving the walls intact. Most of the original equipment is located throughout the building and stored in the loft overhead.

While the ranch hands of a hundred years ago would indeed be surprised at how the building is being used today, we believe they would approve and would enjoy Tia Juana’s, as we hope you are.

Elsewhere on the site, we're told that the "bean and grain storage warehouse" was built in 1895, the blacksmith's shop was built c. 1916, and the hotel was built c. 1913. The site includes the following photos:

Old Town Irvine, across from Tia Juana's, this afternoon