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The California Newspaper Project has posted a Beta test version of the online newspaper archive they're building. It's not completely functional yet, and it only seems to search the 1900 issues of the San Francisco Call, but it's an exciting glimpse of things to come.
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Kai Weisser, who I mentioned in yesterday's post, is still looking for old photos relating to Huntington Beach lifeguards. He would especially like to find images of early lifeguards Henry M. Brooks and George A. Reynolds. If you have any photos like these, please drop Kai a line. He would also like help identifying some of the lifeguards in a 1929 group photo.
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For you custom hot-rod fans, there's more information about the recent discovery of Ed Roth's Orbitron posted on jalopnik.com.
For you custom hot-rod fans, there's more information about the recent discovery of Ed Roth's Orbitron posted on jalopnik.com.
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Correction: In Saturday's post about Disney's California Adventure, I cited a display panel about Hass avacados as an example of Disney getting California history right. The story of Rudolph Hass planting the "mother tree" in La Habra sounded right. But, as it turns out, he actually planted it in La Habra Heights, in Los Angeles County. My one "positive" example was actually wrong too, and I didn't catch it. (At least I corrected my goof within two days, rather than leaving it posted for over six years.)
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