Thursday, January 22, 2015

Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day, Jan. 24, 2015

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This Saturday, Jan. 24, is Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day ! It’ll be perzactly 167 years since the day when gold(!) was discovered at...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

Unknotting the Treehouse Legend

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I've written an article for Werner Weiss' wonderful Yesterland website about the connection between Disneyland 's Swiss Famil...
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Friday, January 02, 2015

David Belardes (1947-2014)

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Steve Adamson, David Belardes, Chris Jepsen & Don Dobmeier at the Orange County Historical Society, 2011. "If somebody remembe...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Santa Ana Rings in 1915

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Celebrating the arrival of the new year a century ago would, in some ways, be familiar to many of us. Most folks spent the evening at home...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Merry Christmas

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The Great Stone Church, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Christmas 2011 With the majority of my gift-wrapping now done, I'm taking a mom...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Marion Knott Montapert (1922-2014)

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Marion Knott at 75th anniversary of her mother's restaurant, 6-13-2009. Marion Knott Montapert , the last of Walter and Cordelia Kn...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Election Day and Halloween are coming soon

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Election Day has long had the indignity of falling soon after Halloween, providing obvious opportunities to recast political hobgoblins as...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

A couple more scenes from O.C.'s 125th birthday

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Fairgrounds, Aug. 1: Giant walking "fair foods" add gravitas to the national anthem. In addition to the aforementioned museum ...