Friday, January 25, 2019

The Tree/Stump Remover That Broke the Groves

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Weldon Field yanks a tree out of the ground – roots and all. (County of Orange photo) Along with the Post Brothers plow and the Carroll ...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Juanita Lovret and Don Tryon

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Orange County recently lost two more excellent local historians: Don Tryon of San Juan Capistrano and Juanita Lovret of Tustin. I only...
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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Autumnal Updates

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Irvine Park, circa 1920s. (Don Dobmeier Postcard Collection) The good folks at Preserve Orange County asked if I'd add a link to th...
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Friday, October 26, 2018

1880s-1890s Halloween: All tricks and no treats

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Trick-or-treating is a rich American tradition, but it wasn't until the 1930s that it began to catch on as replacement for the just pl...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Buena Park's mystery monster

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Sketch by L.A. Herald-Examiner artist Chuch Hughes, 1983. Courtesy L.A. Public Library.   On the night of May 10, 1982, five people called t...
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Monday, September 17, 2018

The Orange County Plain Dealer

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Our Anaheim/Nixon/Disneyland friend Jason Schultz just added another 4,000 scanned pages of the Anaheim Gazette to the many old Anaheim ne...
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...