The Need for Builders’ Signs : Historic Worth of Cook’s Corner

I greatly enjoyed your article and Jim Sleeper’s satire (Feb. 22). Cook’s Corner has long been the meeting point for all geological expeditions into the backcountry.

And after a hard day in the backcountry eating dust, a cold brew and not-too-greasy burger are the perfect answer to making the final 10 miles back to civilization.

Gone to that ever-menacing plague called advancing civilization are the roadhouses on the corner of Chapman and Newport avenues and that old country store in Irvine. This old-timer is determined that Cook’s Corner does not meet the same bulldozer destruction.

RICHARD MERKER

Santa Ana