Friday, August 31, 2007

Newport Harbor High School, Brea & San Clemente

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The Loftus [oil] Lease in Brea Canyon, 1898. The beautiful and historic Allison & Allison clock tower at Newport Harbor High School was...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Ed Roth, Huntington Beach, Civil War & El Modena

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The remains of the Orbitron -- a noted custom car created by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth -- was just discovered in Mexico. It was bein...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Basler-Twist Home, Phyllis Mueller & Garden Grove

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The Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society has updated their website with some suggested steps you can take to help save the historic T...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Tustana redux and the traffic report

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Yesterday I posted an image of the Tustana Apartments. Today, it's a 1930s " Tustana " citrus label from the Santa Ana-Tustin...
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Monday, August 27, 2007

Tustin, Anaheim, Laguna Woods, wookiees, etc.

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Carol Jordan 's new book, Tustin, An Illustrated History , should be available sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The photo ab...
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Sunday odds and ends

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One last image from Don Ballard 's collection: The shops at the Disneyland Hotel , sometime around late 1956 (my best guess). The shops...
Saturday, August 25, 2007

O.C. tourism in the 1940s

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Here's another image from Don Ballard's collection. This came from a 1940s brochure promoting tourism in Anaheim. This is what I wa...
Friday, August 24, 2007

The Disneyland Hotel and the Old Courthouse

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Author Don Ballard was in town today, and brought with him a portion of his vast collection of old Disneyland Hotel materials. Don wrote D...