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Award-Winning Cemetery Tour Looks at Early
Orange County Entertainment
Click here to download our discount ticket flyer.
“Ain’t We Got Fun? Amusements in Early Orange County” will be
held on Saturday, October 22, 2011. This guided historical tour
of Fairhaven Memorial Park and Santa Ana Cemetery features
costumed actors portraying historic figures who share stories
from Orange County’s past.
Long before 3-D movies, Disneyland, or even television, Orange
County already knew how to have a good time. Swimming parties,
sports teams, silent movie palaces, and early amusement parks
all figured in the busy social lives of early residents. Seal
Beach emerges as the “Coney Island of the West”; Santa Ana’s
Yost Theater becomes the vaudeville capital of Orange County;
baseball greats Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson play in a
now-legendary exhibition game; Buffalo Bill rides into town with
his Wild West Show. These are the stories of people who worked,
and played, hard in early Orange County.
Docents will guide visitors through scenes that played important
roles in the history of the county, culminating in a
presentation in Fairhaven’s beautiful 1916 mausoleum.
Comfortable shoes are recommended for the hour-and-a-half long
walking tour.
The event is presented by the Santa Ana Historical Preservation
Society and will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fairhaven
Memorial Park, 1702 Fairhaven Ave., Santa Ana. Tickets are $20
for adults, $16 for seniors and Members, and $14 for students
and children 10 and over. (Children 9 and under are free.)
The unique “cemetery” tour has won a prestigious California
State Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation. This is the
Society’s 14th annual Living History tour, with proceeds
benefiting the organization’s museum and educational programs.
The event is produced in partnership with local writers, and
actors from the Thespian Club at Orange County High School of
the Arts. The tour is co-sponsored by Fairhaven Memorial Park.
Reservations are recommended. Discounted advance sale tickets
are available. More information can be obtained by calling (714)
547-9645 (leave a message). You can also email
tour@sahps.org.
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Our historical cemetery tour is a proud winner of a
prestigious Governor's
Award
from the California State Office of Historic Preservation
Click here to see a video of our 2009 tour on YouTube.
Click here to see
a 3 minute video explaining about our historic cemetery tour and
how we make history fun!
Click here to see several
videos regarding past cemetery tours
Photos from Previous Tours:
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