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Cynthia Ward

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Mysteries of Anaheim: A Chinese Boneyard Without Any Bones?

    ​Among the many jewels in OC's collection of body depositories, Anaheim Cemetery is perhaps the shiniest. Established in 1866, its soil is fertilized by the area's earliest pioneers. Home to the first public mausoleum on the west coast, (take that, Rose Hills), its garden of crooked headstone ... 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

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Today on the High-Speed Rail Seesaw...

    ​Are the current plans for a $40-billion high-speed train meant to connect Fresno and San Francisco with Los Angeles, Anaheim and San Diego brilliant or reckless? Everytime you start to form an opinion, something comes the other way down the tracks. Take, for example, the past 24 hours:

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    Huell Howser Talks Orange Groves, Blimp Hangars, Trestles, the Evil TCA

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Culture

    January 13, 2005

    The Before Picture

    Under 97 years of paint, this two-story Edwardian is the king of crown molding

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    One Gigante Mess

    How a multibillion-dollar corporation played the victim and got its liquor license

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