Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Dr. Coy and historical Orange County trivia

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Owen Coy rolls out a great idea. In 1928, Dr. Owen C. Coy , professor of history at USC and director of the California State Historical ...
Friday, April 08, 2016

Andrew Deneau (1949-2016)

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Andy Deneau,1977. Photo courtesy Anaheim Heritage Center . Andrew Leo "Andy" Deneau, who co-founded and served as the first pr...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

Opal Kissinger (1924-2016)

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Opal Kissinger portrays Helena Modjeska at OCHS history conference, 1988. I wish this were some terrible April Fools Day joke, but it a...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Polynesians were first to settle Orange County

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It’s just like Thor Heyerdahl told us. Except in reverse. Sort of. No one has known the identity of the so-called “Oak Grove people” (or...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Pioneer William D. Lamb

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Plans are underway to develop the sites of the defunct Lamb, Arevalos, and Wardlow Elementary Schools in Huntington Beach. The city wants...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

More crate labels

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In response to my last post, attentive reader Randall Bliss sent me some images from his collection of citrus crate labels. I thought I...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Orange County citrus crate labels

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Crate label of Charles C. Chapman of Fullerton, who popularized the Valencia orange. (Image courtesy Orange County Archives) The Oran...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Walnuts: The Mother of Invention

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Drying walnuts on the Katella Ranch, near Anaheim, circa 1905. Oranges get all the press. Even though they drove our economy for over ha...
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