Thursday, October 29, 2015

Halloween in the Santa Ana Register, 1910-1920

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Halloween spot art from the  Santa Ana Register , 1911. As a local historian, I spend a lot of time rummaging through the old Santa Ana ...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

O.C. narrowly averted counter-culture uprising

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Crazed beatniks Lera Chapman and Bobby Schaal stick it to the man! How did Orange County survive the tumultuous youth movement and viol...
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Saturday, October 03, 2015

Knott's Halloween history event at OCHS

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Boot Hill, Knott's Berry Farm, 1990. Photo courtesy Orange County Archives. Love Halloween? Love theme park history? Boy, have I g...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Knott's, Modern architecture, Irvine, Bowers, etc.

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So the good news is you're finally tall enough to go on the Sky Jump and the Corkscrew at Knott's Berry Farm . The bad news is t...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

"Flogged like a beast" in Dana Point!

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Book cover art appealing to a, um, ... niche audience.  It's pulp non-fiction! I've never before seen a book related to Orange...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Who owned O.C.’s roads in 1918?

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Motoring in Orange County, 1910s The history of our roads is fascinating, and today I came across a curious 1918 newspaper article that ...
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Sunday, August 09, 2015

Malls and shopping centers, 1977

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Fashion Island, Newport Beach. Today I stumbled across a copy of the Shopping Center Development Handbook , a 1977 book about the planni...
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Come to where the flavor is,... Mission Viejo!

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Look! It's another great Mission Viejo promotional film from the 1970s! Watch for those Philip Morris product placements! (*cough!*)...
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