Friday, October 31, 2008

Halloween, Dracula, and a house of wax

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Happy Halloween! Today's first photo shows the Dracula exhibit in the Wide World In Wax museum in Anaheim . No, I don't mean tha...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Halloween, Sam's Seafood, Bob Root & Fullerton

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In honor of Halloween , I'm posting the spookiest-looking photo in the Orange County Archives . Actually, it's a scan of three very...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Anaheim, Irvine, OCMAHS calendar, holidays, etc.

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Today's image is a scene from the Kiddie Parade at the Anaheim Halloween Festival , sometime in the 1950s. . Retired chief of OC Park...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Wolfman Jack, Halloween, reds, Kona Lanes, etc.

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Today's photo shows disc-jockey Wolfman Jack and Marion Knott at Knott's Berry Farm 's 1979 Halloween Haunt . During the even...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

El Adobe and the elusive ghosts of Capistrano

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With Halloween approaching, I wanted something interesting to say about California's most (purportedly) haunted city : San Juan Capis...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Bowling in 1962

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I'm nearing the end of my collection of images from the 1962 Garden Grove High School Argonaut yearbook. The first image shows a me...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

La Palma, and Ron & Elfriede Mac Iver's new book

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Today's photos are scenes from the City of Dairyland , which incorporated in 1955 in order to keep cows in and people out. Specificall...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Acres more O.C. history photos available online

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Today I'm posting two images from the amazing collection at USC's Digital Archive . The first image (top) is labeled "the ea...