Tip's Restaurant matchbooks, when the diner was located at Castaic Junction (part of the Newhall Ranch, then
considered Saugus — before there was Valencia or The Newhall Land and Farming Co.'s planned community
of Newhall Ranch).
Tip Jardine started Tip's Restaurant, a Santa Clarita Valley mainstay for half a century.
It was here, when Tip's was at its original location at Castaic Junction, that actor James Dean, 24,
ate his last meal (pie and milk), just hours before his fatal car crash.
The original Tip's location later became J's Coffee Shop — where four CHP officers were gunned
down in 1970 — and still later, a Marie Callender Family Restaurant.
Tip's moved to the top of Lyons Avenue in Newhall, immediately to the west of the Interstate 5 overpass.
That location would become an International House of Pancakes, and Tip's would move to its final home in
the Plaza Posada shopping center in Newhall, where it went out of business in the 1990s.
