Sunday, November 30, 2008

Irvine Ranch Conservancy: C-135 crash site

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( Continued from 11-28-08 ... ) The second leg of our Irvine Ranch Conservancy tour took us to the site of Orange County ’s worst air disas...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Irvine Ranch Conservancy: The Hanging Tree

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On the 11th of this month (Veteran's Day 2008), the Irvine Ranch Conservancy graciously showed me and some other lucky folks historic ...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Turkey Day in La Palma

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La Palma/Dairyland historians Ron and Elfreide MacIver sent me this cartoon with the note, "Happy Thanksgiving from La Palma, where...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

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Today's first photo (top) shows Thanksgiving dinner at William Webb Sr. 's house, 146 S. Rose St., Anaheim , around 1906. The gro...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A giant turkey, Disneyland, Vanishing O.C., etc.

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Today's images are from 1975. The first (top) is a design for the giant turkey that appeared in America On Parade , Disneyland 's B...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

OCIR, Orange, El Toro and a Victorian Christmas

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By special request, today's photo is from the opening of the Orange County International Raceway (OCIR) in Aug. 1967. This drag racin...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

LIFE, El Toro, drag racing, holiday party & Neutra

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Google now hosts millions of images from the archive of LIFE magazine , including many images of Orange County . The first example abov...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

First National Bank of Tustin, circa 1925

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This photo shows the First National Bank of Tustin in the mid-1920s. The Bank was located at the corner of Main St. and D St. in Downtown ...
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