O.C. History Roundup

Balboa Pirate Days, circa late 1940s. It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day today! But talking like a pirate is nothing new in Oran...

Orange County Title Co., 1953 (Photo courtesy CSUF Special Collections) Same scene in 2019. (Photo by C. Jepsen) It's hard to th...

A vaquero at work in 1830s California. Q: Where did La Matanza St. in San Juan Capistrano get its name? Doesn’t it mean slaughter or mas...

Horse tied at Verdugo St. near the Swallows Inn on Camino Capistrano, circa 1960. Often what begins as a seemingly minor question turns...

How do we cut this cake into 3.18 million slices? The recorded history of what’s now Orange County dates back to 1769 (we just celebrat...

Our young hero in 1946. The word “moral” in any organization’s name should set off alarm bells in your head. So it was with the Moral In...

L.M. Cox Manufacturing Co. models at Disneyland's Thimble Drome Flight Circle. I've been driving past two Quonset huts at 728 a...

Welcome to Monkey Island! (Etching detail courtesy the Wellcome Collection ) Around 1950, "Monkey Island" was created in the ...