Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Things to see and do in Orange County

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Ostrich racing (in pirate garb) at the Orange County Fair, 1951. Someone writing a guidebook contacted the Orange County Historical Soci...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

A load of bull about the naming of El Toro

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Painting of El Toro depot by Edgar Gerry Starr (Saddleback Area Historical Soc.) How El Toro got its name (which means “the bull” in Sp...
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Friday, February 15, 2019

Trask is Dummer

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Judge D. K. Trask, circa 1900 On the list of strange Orange County street names, Trask Avenue ranks right up there with Heil Avenue , M...
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Monday, February 11, 2019

Ranney Street, Garden Grove

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Excelsior Dairy ad from the Santa Ana Register , 1916. Alert reader Steve writes: "I recently ran across Ranney Avenue in Garden Gr...
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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...