Monday, August 20, 2018

More than a Big Boy combo plate

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Bob's Big Boy, quite literally, gave me my first vision of what the world was like. No, really. I was born legally blind, but nobo...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Bud Hurlbut exhibit at Orange County Archives

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A proud Bud Hurlbut in front of his new Calico Mine Ride, 1960. Buena Park’s Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut (1918-2011) was an entrepre...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Gus' Sea Shell Cafe, Balboa

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Balboa Bikes 'N" Beach Stuff, 601 E. Balboa Blvd., Newport Beach. Seeing this old building in Balboa with the “Green Fence of D...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Anaheim's Original Pancake House

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Something about fluffy pancakes, crispy bacon and fresh squeezed orange juice really fires up the imagination. Perhaps that’s why the lore...
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Monday, May 14, 2018

Neon History (Event!)

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La Palma Chicken Pie Shop sign enters Museum of Neon Art. (Photo by Adriene Biondo) The art and history of neon on our local roadsides ...
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Sunday, April 29, 2018

F. B. Silverwood and Our State Song (Part 10)

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Senaida Sullivan, 1965  [Continued from Part 9 ] More than twenty five years after Silverwood's death, Senaida Sullivan, state mu...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Thar she blows!

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Okay,... So this has nothing particularly to do with Orange County history, unless you take into account that whales were once hunted off ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

F. B. Silverwood and Our State Song (Part 8)

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Frank B. "Daddy" Silverwood, circa 1920.  [Continued from Part 7 ] By the early 1920s, Francis B. Silverwood’s menswear chai...