Are you a fan of the paranormal? From September 14 to November 3 on Wednesdays and Thursdays evenings at 6 P.M., the Fullerton Museum is offering their Haunted Fullerton Walking Tour. However, there will be a special tour on Halloween!
The tours are approximately two and a half hours long, and the cost is $15 for museum members and $18 for the general public. However, space is limited and prepaid reservation is required. To make a reservation, call the Fullerton Museum at (714) 738-6545.
Based on the name, you can expect to …

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, …

Oktoberfest is an annual 16-18 day festival held from late September to early October in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The festival was held for the first time on October 12, 1810, celebrating the marriage of the Bavarian King, Max Joseph, who later become King Ludwig I, to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. With the exception of war years and other misfortunes, Oktoberfest has been celebrated annually, and today, it is the largest festival in the world, drawing over six million visitors.
If you are unable to go to Germany to celebrate Oktoberfest, don’t …

The Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana is the oldest courthouse in Southern California, built in 1901, twelve years after Orange County separated from Los Angeles County. Today, it is home to the Orange County History Center and government offices. The Orange County History Center consists of the Old Courthouse Museum, the Orange County Archives, and the library of the Pacific Coast Archaeological Society.

On September 3, the Old Courthouse Museum is holding a special showing of its new exhibit, “A Class Action: The Grassroots Struggle for School Desegregation in …

In 1973, The City of Orange decided to celebrate its centennial by hosting the Orange International Street Fair, mirroring the Orange Street Fair of 1910. However, the Orange International Street Fair was so successful that instead of being a one-time event, it became an annual event celebrated during the Labor Day weekend.
Held between Glassell Street and Chapman Avenue from Friday to Sunday of Labor Day weekend, over half a million people pay a visit to the fair to experience food, arts and crafts, and entertainment from fifteen cultures around the …

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 …

One of Orange County’s landmarks is undergoing a much needed renovation! Originally built as a scoreboard for the Angel’s stadium in 1964 the “Big A” that now stands in the parking lot of the stadium is being renovated! Even if you are not an Angel’s or baseball fan, I’m sure you’ve seen the 230-foot tall, 210 ton “Big A” as you drive down the 57 freeway.
Some history of the “Big A”
The “Big A” was built  in 1964 as a scoreboard for the stadium. It quickly became the icon of the …