The Register looks at Los Alamitos in 1930
The Feb. 19, 1930 issue of the Santa Ana Register, celebrating the paper’s 25 anniversary, featured pages dedicated to each…
Which Heads of State have visited the West OC?
What royalty or heads of state have graced the West OC/East LB area with their presence? It seems to not…
Los Alamitos area once aspired to be local center of “rabbit and poultry industry” and ended up as Apartment Row
When the local sugar beet factory shut down in 1926, the community scrambled to find new industries and jobs to…
Seal Beach is a town of “firsts”
With the Santa Ana and Irvine-centric bias (not to mention the Disneyland fanboy-ism) of the mainstream Orange County Historical Establishment,…
Stuff Filmed/Taped Around Here (Los Al, Rossmoor, SB, East LB and Cypress too)
NOTE: Okay, this will be a work in progress, but we’ve got to start somewhere. If you have information to…
The old Eucalyptus groves that once stood here
For all of you who nostalgically remember the larger groves of Eucalyptus trees that once stood in this area —…