Talk:Anaheim Island, California

Introduction
I was inspired to create this page after a Memorial Day weekend trip to visit family. That's when I learned about the proliferation of names used to describe the unincorporated area along the west side of Anaheim where I grew up (we moved there when I was eight, in 1963; I moved away for good in 1977, but have come out to visit frequently since then). I've thought of the neighborhood as the "Gaza Strip" ever since I first heard the term used back in 1964 or so, when I asked someone (I don't remember who) why we didn't have sidewalks while other streets nearby did, and why the county sheriff patrolled the area instead of the Anaheim police. That's also when I was first told the story of the fire (which was mentioned in March by an anonymous commenter on Talk:Orange County, California).

In the course of preparing this article and tracking down sources, I've had some interesting conversations. The local history maven at the Anaheim Public Library insists that the area has always been called the Garza Strip, not the Gaza Strip, and stated that the term was originally used by the fire department. (She couldn't do any further digging through newspaper archives than I'd already done online without charging an hourly research fee. The next time I'm in Anaheim, if I have a few hours to spare to dig through the library's clipping and microfiche files, I just may do it myself -- or maybe there's a friendly Wikipedian and Anaheim local history buff out there who might want to pitch in.) An assistant to the Chief of the Anaheim Fire Department checked with her boss, who stated that the area has always been called the Gaza Strip, not the Garza Strip, but wasn't able to come up with any published citation of the term earlier than Jeff Overley's March 2008 article in the Orange County Register, "Separatists kept 'Gaza Strip' a land apart." The earliest reference I've been able to find to "Gaza Strip" is Ref. #10, Louise Woo's October 1992 Register feature, "Dreams of a home lured La Colonia families." None of the people I've talked to so far had heard the story of the fire (and it's highly unlikely that a story like that would have made the papers back in the '50's or early '60's). Maybe I'll try writing Jan Harold Brunvand to see whether he's familiar with published variants of that story.

It would be nice to be able to feature more references to notable, positive news in the piece. Unfortunately, gang- and drug-related crimes tend to make the papers more consistently and prominently than community improvement initiatives and the like. I put in what I found, and what I found came from newspaper archive searches not only for terms like "Anaheim Island," "La Colonia" and so on, but also for the names of many individual streets. And I figured that the article as it stands now is just a starting point. (BTW, I'm guessing that the street name "Guinida" is the developer's misspelling of some Louisiana place name, since every instance of the word that I found on Google is a reference to Guinida Lane in Anaheim, practically every other street in the strip between Ball Road and Chanticleer has a Louisiana-derived name, and "Beauvais" is misspelled as "Bouvais.")

I've tried to be as equitable as possible in the account of the annexation controversy. That said, it is likely that some readers with a dog in the fight will not be happy with the section discussing the omission of campaign finance information from the professionally-prepared petition, and the legislative amendments that were enacted as a result. IIRC, neither the Register nor the Times has paid any attention to this aspect of the story; it didn't become apparent to me until I read the January 2007 OC LAFCO Strategic Planning Meeting Agenda, then saw the 2009 annexation application packet with the disclosure affidavit and realized that something must have happened in the interim. This could very well become the object of partisan revision. I for one would be very interested to know exactly how much money the Orange County Association of Deputy Sheriffs and possibly other county employees' organizations have spent fighting to protect their turf by influencing the outcome of annexation proposals -- i.e., to have a full, retroactive dollars-and-cents disclosure of exactly what the "our" in "Save Our Islands" stands for.

--KathleenSeidel (talk) 20:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for writing this, it's a great article so far. At this point I would request some expansion on some of the topics. Geography and maybe climate would be two areas to add upon, also an expansion of the history to pre-WWII material like any Ranchers and any Indigenous peoples. Take a look at San Francisco as a recently reviewed FA for some areas to look at expansion. You should probably remove the unsourced urban legend regarding the fire department. Finally I would ask to start adding images to illustrate the various areas and boundaries, as well as any historically relevant images, and possibly an illustration of some demographic characteristic (pop growth, breakdown by ethnicity, etc.). -Optigan13 (talk) 02:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

A Wiki-Scoop
For the record, the results of the special election regarding the Thistle development annexation, which I added to the page today (September 13, 2010), came from a report by the Anaheim City Clerk that was just posted to the city website. The report is postdated September 14, 2010, the date of tomorrow night's Anaheim City Council meeting; the election is Item #30 on the agenda (see http://www.anaheim.net/docs_agend/questys_pub/MG30275/Agenda.htm). These results have not yet been reported by the Orange County Register or any other news outlet. KathleenSeidel (talk) 16:04, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

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