Monday, March 31, 2008

The Santa Ana Civic Center and the 1970s

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Today's "then and now" images show the part of the Santa Ana Civic Center I like to call " The Salt Flat of the Flags ...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Old Huntington Beach street names

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Our series on changing street names continues in Huntington Beach . I took today's photo a couple years ago at the corner of Lake and P...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Ranchos, cogstones, Bowers, Capistrano, etc.

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This map is less detailed than the one I posted yesterday, but it's also more legible. This stylized map is from the 1950s and shows (r...
Friday, March 28, 2008

WPA map, Capistrano, it's a small world & wildfires

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Today's image is a map created for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. The map shows " Orange County adobes, o...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Orange Drive-In, Rob Selway, OTPA, etc.

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On this day in 1955, Rev. Robert Schuller preached his first sermon in O.C. from the roof of a snackbar at the Orange Drive-In Theatre . ...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Irvine Ranch House & Irvine street name changes

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With all the interest in the new Katie Wheeler Branch Library (which looks like James Irvine's home), I thought it would be fun to po...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Disneyland's Wonderful Wizard of Bras

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Today's photo shows what may have been the earliest robotic figure in Disneyland : “ The Wizard of Bras .” The Wizard was the mascot o...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Easter!

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This is a rare image of a statue of Jesus by Claude Bell , based on Paul von Kleiben 's painting of " The Transfiguration of Chri...