Today is the 75th anniversary of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, which rattled Southern California, claimed more than 100 lives, and spurred many of the retrofitting laws that keep us safe from the Big One (remember when that was the only terror we dreaded?). Four people died in Orange County, but the only lasting, visible legacies the quake wrought here are in Anaheim*.
In the Anaheim High School Public library hangs a picture of a magnificent structure with Greek columns--this was the old Ana