In the early days of highway travel, roadside conveniences were scarce, and in 1926 Frank “Pops” Pohl opened a giant orange-shaped juice stand in Tracy, California, selling orange juice, lemonade, orangeade, and grapefruit juice. The stand became very popular, and Pops expanded with “Giant Orange” juice stands on many California highways. In 1947 the Mammoth Orange was built in Chowchilla, near old Highway 99 and Robertson Blvd., first selling various juice blends and hot dogs. As hamburger stands became more popular, it began selling “Alaska Sized Burgers and Texas Sized Fries,” and its owner, Margaret “Peggy” Dorler, could take ten orders without picking up a pen. In 1954, because of construction of the “new” Highway 99, the Mammoth Orange was moved to the intersection of Highway 99 and Ave 22 1/2 in Fairmead, California. In 1991 the Stiggins family bought the Mammoth Orange and the competing Whoa Boy Orange across Highway 99, and the Whoa Boy Orange closed in the mid 1990’s. Still very popular, the Mammoth Orange finally closed in 2008 because of highway realignment construction, ending as the last operating giant orange on Highway 99. Its name was especially fitting because history now indicates that mammoth fossils were probably buried under it at the Fairmead location.