Anaheim, circa 1925. Pictured here is the central business district along Center Street (now Lincoln Avenue).

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Santa Ana’s downtown streets decorated for the holidays in 1945. 

Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.

Four women stroll down the Newport Beach esplanade, circa 1905.

1968 aerial view of the Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach, one of the Irvine Company’s first real estate developments in Orange County.

Main Street in Huntington Beach, circa 1915

Film producer and entertainment mogul Walt Disney was born on this day in 1901. In this 1960 photo from our L.A. Examiner Collection, Disney accompanies his grandchildren on a train ride at Disneyland.

City of Orange founders Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell pose in front of the fountain in the Orange Plaza, circa 1887

Strolling down the Newport Beach esplanade, circa 1905.

Aerial view of Anaheim in 1870, drawn by E. S. Glover.

Circus performers, or maromeros, pose on the patio of Hacienda Aguilar in San Juan Capistrano on this day in 1903.