Halloween, Dracula, and a house of wax

Happy Halloween! Today's first photo shows the Dracula exhibit in the Wide World In Wax museum in Anaheim . No, I don't mean tha...

Halloween, Sam's Seafood, Bob Root & Fullerton

In honor of Halloween , I'm posting the spookiest-looking photo in the Orange County Archives . Actually, it's a scan of three very...

Anaheim, Irvine, OCMAHS calendar, holidays, etc.

Today's image is a scene from the Kiddie Parade at the Anaheim Halloween Festival , sometime in the 1950s. . Retired chief of OC Park...

Wolfman Jack, Halloween, reds, Kona Lanes, etc.

Today's photo shows disc-jockey Wolfman Jack and Marion Knott at Knott's Berry Farm 's 1979 Halloween Haunt . During the even...

El Adobe and the elusive ghosts of Capistrano

With Halloween approaching, I wanted something interesting to say about California's most (purportedly) haunted city : San Juan Capis...

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Bowling in 1962

I'm nearing the end of my collection of images from the 1962 Garden Grove High School Argonaut yearbook. The first image shows a me...

La Palma, and Ron & Elfriede Mac Iver's new book

Today's photos are scenes from the City of Dairyland , which incorporated in 1955 in order to keep cows in and people out. Specificall...

Acres more O.C. history photos available online

Today I'm posting two images from the amazing collection at USC's Digital Archive . The first image (top) is labeled "the ea...

Cool Men's Hairstyles 2009

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O.C. theme park historical update (& Seal Beach)

Here's a full-page ad for Knott's Berry Farm from the 1962 Garden Grove High School Argonaut . Not a one of these four attraction...

AJ Allmendinger pompadour haircuts Cool

Hot men Haircuts-AJ Almendjer haircuts I like the contrast between the tight sides and longer top . Anthony James Allmendinger (born Decemb...

A bunch more Orange County history photos!

The postcard above ( Newport Beach in the 1950s) is one of more than 70 images added to the " Orange County History " group on ...

Steve Martin, Garden Grove High School, 1962

Here are a few more photos from the 1962 Argonaut ( the Garden Grove High School yearbook). The first photo shows Steve Martin as par...

Garden Grove H.S. '62 & Hispanic Heritage Month

Don Dobmeier stopped by today with his copy of the 1962 Argonaut - Garden Grove High School' s yearbook. He wanted to show me one par...

Santa Ana, El Toro, Costa Mesa, etc.

Here's a photo of a Santa Ana breadline from the real Great Depression. Things may look bad now, but we've got a long way to go be...

cool mens haircuts 2009

Cool Mens HairCuts - Asian male celebrity haircuts- Andy Lau Famous actor in Hong kong- Andy Lau Andy Lau has since appeared in more than 10...

Disneyland, Willard Smith, old newspapers, etc.

Norman Smith , grandson of the late Orange County Supervisor Willard Smith , recently donated boxes of wonderful photos, news clippings, d...

Holly Sugar, Julius Schulman, Anaheim, etc.

The photos above show the Holly Sugar plant in South Santa Ana being torn down in 1983. The sugar plant went into production around 1910...

Endangered historic sites and landmarks

In March 2007 I posted a list of endangered sites of historic interest in Orange County . Since then, we’ve lost a number of landmarks, (inc...

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Anaheim, Las Flores, Sharon Clairemont, Shirley Babashoff, etc.

Today we have a 1961 view looking east on Katella Ave. in Anaheim , near the Santa Ana River . It's amazing how recently this part of O...

mens short Stylish hair

A Textured League Hair Cut for Guys- A Good Option for a Low Care Style This Hair Style works well with most hair types, but is especially ...

Fashion Island (Part II)

Here are the 1977 images of Fashion Island that I mentioned on Wednesday . The first image (top) shows The Broadway , and the central cou...

Anaheim events update

Today's photo shows street paving in Anaheim in 1910. The photo is marked " Fairchild-Gilmore-Wilton ." . The O.C. Mexican Am...

Fashion Island, Newport Beach, SAHS, etc.

I was skimming a 1977 issue of Orange County Illustrated magazine today when I stumbled across an ad supplement for Fashion Island shopp...