Friday, August 05, 2016

Santa Ana's wishlist, 1881

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Fourth St., Santa Ana, circa 1887. On Dec. 14, 1881, the Santa Ana correspondent to the new Los Angeles Times newspaper shared some of ...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

Fiesta de Luz, Sam Stein, and the Almazzadeluzoresquibo

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From "High Lights In Civic Parade & Carnival", Popular Mechanics , Jan. 1917 Short, 353 pounds, bald, and wearing a pink ...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

A Red Car anniversary

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On June 17, 1904, the Pacific Electric Railway opened a "Red Car" line from Long Beach to Huntington Beach. It was an important...
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Monday, June 06, 2016

O.C. in the British Library

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Here are a couple images of old Orange County from the Flickr feed of the British Library. It just goes to show you haven't done all y...
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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...