Remembering Orange County
Perpetual sunshine, palm trees, miles of unbroken beaches, yachts, cliff-top mansions, millionaires—these are the images of Orange County that come to mind for many people, and there is much truth in this depiction, for Orange County is a place of boundless natural wonders that attracts more than 25 million tourists a year. However, the full story of Orange County is far more complex. It’s a story of conquistadors, wildcatters, farmers, veterans of great wars, builders, artists, and filmmakers.
With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book Historic Photos of Orange County, Leslie Anne Stone provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Orange County. Remembering Orange County offers more than 125 images drawn from the county’s fascinating past, from the mission ruins of San Juan Capistrano, to the turn-of-the-century celery fields of Westminster, to the eye-popping fantasia of a young Disneyland.
By East Coast standards, Orange County is an infant—just over a century old—and tiny compared with most California counties; but its population is second only to neighboring Los Angeles County and growing every day. This volume captures the story of Orange County’s evolution from a sleepy backwater suburb of Los Angeles to an international tourist destination.
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Book details
- Text by
- Leslie Anne Stone
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Orange County, California · local history · historic photography · pictorial history · California history
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368670
About the author
LESLIE ANNE STONE is a writer and local historian who has spent more than twenty years in Orange County, California. Her books include Remembering Orange County and Historic Photos of Orange County.
Stone holds a master’s degree in art history from California State University, Long Beach, earned in 2007. Her graduate research on the architecture of Buena Park’s mid-century theme parks drew her into the study of local history.
When she’s not writing, Stone volunteers with the Buena Park Historical Society and the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at CSULB, and works as a portrait artist whose work has appeared in local publications and art shows. That grounding in place and visual culture shapes her historical work.
Leslie lives in Orange County, California.