Sunday, December 19, 2010

Knott's Merry Farm, Christmas vampires, etc.

Today's image is the cover of the Nov./Dec. 1960 issue of the Knotty Post, the old employee magazine at Knott's Berry Farm.
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On this day in 1888, the Orange News was founded. Also on this day, in 1929, the Seal Beach Volunteer Fire Department was organized.
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Tomorrow (Monday) will mark the 114th annivesary of the discovery and slaughter of a remarkably "enormous vampire bat" on the San Joaquin (Irvine) Ranch. (Really!) Thus began the annual Irvine tradition of heralding the arrival of Christmas with the slaying of a vampire. (Not really. But maybe they should.)

2 comments:

Connie Moreno said...

"Thus began the annual Irvine tradition of heralding the arrival of Christmas with the slaying of a vampire."

See? I knew there was a reason I really liked Irvine, LOL!

Teresa Blankmeyer Burke said...

The Orange Daily News! My great-grandmother was the ODN society writer for many years - Amy Russell Palmiter. Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth J. Schultz, was fairly active with the OC Historical Society in the 1960s and 1970s - the old Anaheim History Room at the Main library was named for her. I credit these two ladies and my grandmother, Amy Palmiter's youngest daughter, for my abiding interest in OC history (and for owning what I will wager is one of the largest collections of monographs, books, journals, and assorted papers on Orange County History in the state of New Mexico.)