Wednesday, April 29, 2009

El Toro Country Store and Tustin home tour

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Ken from Outside The Berm , read my recent El Toro / Lake Forest post and shared this 1960 slide of the El Toro Country Store . . The Tu...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Space Age Orange and Viewliner Ltd.

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Today I'm posting photos of two Space Age wonders from the Orange Public Library 's history collection . The first image (top) sho...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Citrus trucks and Tustin Hills Citrus Association

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The images above come from the April 1937 issue of Popular Mechanics . The accompanying article reads, "Constant breaking of trees and...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

El Toro

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Here are two of my favorite things, mashed together: Local history and "California School" watercolor painting. This painting han...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Joy Zone, Seal Beach

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Today's images show the Joy Zone in Seal Beach in about 1917. The postcard image above shows the large wood rollercoaster, The Derby ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Santa Ana Tin Mining Co.

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The photos above show the shafts of the Santa Ana Tin Mine , in Trabuco Canyon , on March 20, 1903. Tin was first discovered in the canyon ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Santa-Ana-palooza

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Today's post is all Santa Ana , starting with the photo above, which is a detail from a 1946 postcard showing North Main St. The Horton...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Huntington Beach library, Fullerton & Norton Simon

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There is a plan afoot in Huntington Beach to tear out the Main Street Branch Library (1951) and the surrounding park area and replace it ...
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