It’s Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer. Indulge yourself with some arts and leisure before the grind starts up again in earnest. We’ve always said that the actual year (rather […]
Street fair food and Civil War fights
A citrus ‘war’ in the OC
By Jim Tortolano The County of Orange was not named after the golden fruit, but in the time before the great post-war boom, it might as well have been. Oranges, along with […]
OC turns 125 … sort of
By Pete Zarustica Orange County is (almost) officially 125 years old. On June 4, 1889, residents of the southeastern wing of Los Angeles County (typically referred to as the Santa Ana Valley), […]
Cities now coming full circle
By Jim Tortolano Old is the newest trend in American living. I’m not talking about the steady march of baby boomers toward senior citizen’s discounts, but the popularity of living styles which […]
Should Santa Ana be county seat?
When Orange County was divided from Los Angeles County in 1889, there was a lot of controversy over which city should be the county seat, or center of government. Anaheim, Orange and […]
The cities formerly known as ….
By Jim Tortolano It’s not just celebrities or serial spouses who change their names. Many a city – some of them big – trade in one monicker for another for a […]
