Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Mystery book cover unmystified

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When Phil Brigandi died in 2019, we (his historian friends) spent countless hours working to appropriately distribute his vast personal hist...
Friday, April 01, 2022

Johnny Eucalyptus

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You may have wondered where California’s many eucalyptus trees came from. They are, after all, an Australian native.  In the early 1850s, ec...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Anaheim's Birthplace: Lütgens’ Hotel, San Francisco

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John H. & Johanna Lütgens (Courtesy thoneybourne on Ancestry.com) Anaheim, Orange County’s first incorporated city and one of California...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Ilse Byrnes (1927-2022)

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Ilse Byrnes leading an O.C. Historical Society tour at the Montanez Adobe, 2016. (Photo by author) One of my heroes has passed: Ilse M. Byrn...
Friday, October 29, 2021

Delhi's Haunted House

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The ghost of a "lady in white." (Art by C. Wilkins, courtesy J'aime Rubio )   [Author’s note: When I stumbled across this stor...
Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Lost paintings of Orange County adobes

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"The Yorba Adobe" by Anne Robinson (Photo by Don Dobmeier) Help find two missing paintings!  Laguna Beach artist Anne Robinson (Ol...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

W. L. Adams (1841-1926) of Tustin

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Recently, Guy Ball sent me a copy of this photo (above) from the Tustin Area Historical Society’s collections, which was identified as “W. L...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Alice Chandler: O.C. cowgirl and Sheriff's Deputy

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Orange County’s Dorothy Alice Chandler was a cowgirl, sheriff’s deputy, pilot, trick rider, horse trainer, riding instructor, dog breeder, r...