If you have driven by the Fox Theater on Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton, you will notice that it is presently closed and under construction. Though it was closed and abandoned in 1987, the Fox Theatre has been an official landmark of the City of Fullerton since 1990 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 2006.
The move for restoration began in 2005 when the city of Fullerton began to raise funds by showing movies in the rear parking lot by projecting films onto the outer wall …

Pass though Seal Beach today and you will find yourself experiencing the small-town sleepy atmosphere. However, Seal Beach was once more bustling and lively, its history probably unable to cross your mind.
In the 1800s, long before becoming incorporated as Seal Beach, the area was known as Anaheim Landing, important for its shipping port . However, with the rise of the Pacific Electric Red Car, Anaheim Landing faded to Bay City, transforming into a recreational area. Bay City was incorporated on October 27, 1910, but due to confusion with San Francisco, …

Now a sleepy little place, Seal Beach was once more lively with its amusement park Joy Zone, rivaling Long Beach and Santa Monica.
Envisioning a “Fun City” and “the Coney Island of the Pacific,” Phillip A. Stanton, the founder of Seal Beach, built Joy Zone in 1916. One of the highlights of this amusement park was The Derby, a wooden roller coaster taken from the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, from which its riders’ screams could be heard even in Long Beach.
At the end of the pier, before Ruby’s …

On Electric Avenue near Main Street sits a Pacific Electric Railway Red Car. The Pacific Electric Railway system, also known as the Red Car system, once connected Southern California from 1901 to 1961. Once traveling through Los Angeles County, passing through Seal Beach, and ending at the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, the only memory of this part of Seal Beach’s past is the Red Car Historical Museum and the segment of tracks it rests on at the northwest portion of Electric Avenue Greenbelt.
Red Car Historical Museum
707 Electric Avenue
Seal Beach, …

Many times we pass by a place without taking notice of it, without realizing there is a story to it, without realizing it exists. Merely another unknown building, landmark, or “thing.”
Though I have been an Orange Country resident all my life, surprisingly, I had never been to Seal Beach and never knew anything about the city until summer 2009. A friend and I were bored so we looked up random places to explore and found out how close Seal Beach was to La Palma. We decided to pay our first …

If you love Disney as much as I do, this weekend is perfect to come down to  Disneyland Resort! Two Major events are happening this weekend:

The Anaheim Convention Center [located minutes away from the resort] is hosting the annual and much anticipated D23 expo.
At Disney California Adventure, award winning dance crew, Kaba Modern comes back and performs at elecTRONica!

D23 is the official expo for everything Disney and is happening this weekend. As a Disney FANATIC I wouldn’t want to miss this opportunity get an inside look at Disney’s projects. From …

Now that the OC Fair is over, Food Truck Fare Thursdays will be back!
Every Thursday from 11 A.M.-2 P.M., gourmet food trucks will be at the OC Fair & Event Center parking lots. Admission and parking is free, but the price of food varies on the trucks.
For weekly updates, became a Facebook fan of OC Fair or follow @ocfair on Twitter.
Below is the information for this Thursday’s Food Truck Fare.

What food trucks are you looking forward to seeing?

Hosted by the Orange County Equality Coalition, Orange County’s 3rd Annual LGBT pride event is to be held in Irvine tomorrow!
“Busting Through the Orange Curtain”
Saturday, August 13
noon-10 P.M.
Hidden Valley Event Space
8800 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
http://www.prideoc.com/
Tickets are $10 general admission, $75 VIP (includes food from Border Grill and beverages from Barefoot Wine), and free for youths under 12. General admission tickets can be purchased online from TicketDerby or Saturday at the door, but VIP tickets are limited and are only available online.
For a special opportunity, Orange County Equality Coalition is …

Spring is in the air with the arrival of Lunar New Year, which falls on February 3 this year, greeting the arrival of year of the rabbit, but in Vietnamese culture, it is year of the cat.
The largest Tết (Vietnamese New Year) Festival outside of Vietnam, the 30th Annual Tết Festival, hosted by the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations (UVSA), is taking place February 4-6 at Garden Grove Park. This year’s theme is Xuân Ước Mơ or Spring of Dreams.
The festival consists of a wide variety of booths: cultural …

What is the Tour of OC?
Today, June 30, 2010, Long Boards Ice cream is launching a social location challenge called the Tour of OC using location sharing service Gowalla and 20 spots around Orange County. To participate in the tour, all you need is a mobile phone (preferably a smartphone such as an iPhone, Blackberry, Android, or webOS) and the will to go out and check out those spots. Some of the spots you can check into on this trip are the Orange County Register, Angels Stadium, Huntington …