Friday, May 20, 2016

The Counterculture in Orange County

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Handbill promoting Yippie Day at Disneyland, Aug. 6, 1970. While the monolithic notion of Orange County as an ultra-conservative bedroo...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

A couple events this weekend...

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...and if you can't make it to this event in Costa Mesa on Sunday (or even if you can), also consider the big Vintage Postcard and Pa...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Pioneer Andres R. Arevalos

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Andres Arevalos turns first shovelful of dirt at Arevalos School groundbreaking, 1964. In the 1950s and 1960s, during Orange County’s un...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

Before and After: The Old Courthouse

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The image above shows the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana around the 1910s. We're looking across the intersection of Sycam...
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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