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May 30, 2008
Historical Hackery at its Worst
Orange County has a notorious tradition of historians who subscribe to the Cult of the Orange Crate, the idea that our region's yesteryears are as immaculate as the images depicted on the labels of the long-gone citrus industry. This paper has long challenged such orthodoxy by publishing stories dea ... More >>
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August 12, 2008
Grove Where Citrus War Started Now Dying
Ate at El Pollo Fino over the weekend with Cynthia Ward, head of the Anaheim Historical Society and a longtime reader. Over bites of the best charbroiled chicken in Orange County not cooked at The Surfin' Chicken, Ward informed me of a terrible development: the orange grove on Santa Ana and Helena s ... More >>
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September 12, 2008
A People's History Tour of Anaheim
I've known Cynthia Ward, president of the Anaheim Historical Society, for a couple of years now, and have always found her to be someone with an open mind and a passion for what's ultimately right. Ever an Anaheim booster, she's the lady who escorted Huell Howser 'round our hometown for his Anaheim ... More >>
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October 13, 2008
Cafe Contigo--Closed :-(
Spent the weekend hawking books at the Anaheim Historical Society's biannual home tour. There, many folks told me the bad news: Cafe Contigo, located just down the street from Anaheim City Hall, is no more. I reviewed it late last year, just a couple of weeks after it opened, and made it my place t ... More >>
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January 26, 2009
Beloved OC Historians, Mexicans, and Half-Breeds Tomorrow!
Woman or half-breed?As mentioned in my ¡Ask a Mexican! column this week, I'll be speaking tomorrow to the Anaheim Historical Society at what's now called the Woelke-Stoffel House but which generations of Anaheimers know as the Red Cross House. Address is 418 N. West St., Anaheim, (714) 292-0042, an ... More >>
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September 11, 2008
Huell Howser Talks Orange Groves, Blimp Hangars, Trestles, the Evil TCA
Woman or half-breed?As mentioned in my ¡Ask a Mexican! column this week, I'll be speaking tomorrow to the Anaheim Historical Society at what's now called the Woelke-Stoffel House but which generations of Anaheimers know as the Red Cross House. Address is 418 N. West St., Anaheim, (714) 292-0042, an ... More >>
Culture
January 13, 2005
The Before Picture
Under 97 years of paint, this two-story Edwardian is the king of crown molding
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August 18, 2009
Finally, a Reason to Visit Anaheim's GardenWalk
Guerrero with her mural I cringe every time I drive past Anaheim's GardenWalk and its fortress of chains. This isn't my Anaheim of immigrant shops mixing with longtime businesses in cheap strip malls, nor does it have the Googie charm of the original hotels and stores that sprung around Disneyla ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
[¡Ask a Mexican!] The World Is an ESL Class
Guerrero with her mural I cringe every time I drive past Anaheim's GardenWalk and its fortress of chains. This isn't my Anaheim of immigrant shops mixing with longtime businesses in cheap strip malls, nor does it have the Googie charm of the original hotels and stores that sprung around Disneyla ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
The Curious Case of Anaheim's Founding, Probably Mythological Goat
Maybe Ontiveros' goat was made into birria?It's always a blast speaking before the Anaheim Historical Society, not just because it's my hometown crowd but also because the fine folks who belong are receptive to my diagnosis of our collective Sunkist memories. So, when I brought up the story of th ... More >>
News
October 7, 2010
Disney's Hotel-Workers' Union Is Still Trying to Bring Down the Mouse
After some two-and-a-half years of stalled negotiations and street theater, a new labor deal still seems like Fantasyland
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May 6, 2011
What Will Become of the Chris & Pitts Bar-B-Q Sign?
Sun sets on iconic Anaheim sign...When I became of driving age and had to leave Anaheim for points south, I'd always take Euclid Avenue where two beacons stood to guide me along: the fabulous neon chicken of the La Palma Chicken Pie Shop and the multi-bulb wonder that was the marquee for Chris &a ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Anaheim Historical Society to Host Home Tour This Weekend
We've always been fans of the Anaheim Historical Society, and not just because they keep inviting us to their meetings to hear heresies of our past. Unlike other local historians, they're fully accepting of Anaheim's racist past--moved on, glad it's gone, now can we just grill some 'cue and torti ... More >>
News
December 8, 2011
Meet Shaheen Sadeghi, the LAB Man
In his his quest to hipsterize OC retail, Shaheen Sadeghi has built quirkily beautiful properties and gained more than a few critics

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