Anaheim (
"ANNA-hime") is a city in Orange County,
California
. As of January 1, 2009, the city population
was about 348,467, making it the 10th most-populated city in
California and ranked 54th in the United States
. The city anticipates that the population will
surpass 400,000 by 2014 due to rapid development in its Platinum Triangle
area as well as in Anaheim Hills
area. Anaheim is the second most populous city in
Orange County (after Santa Ana
) and second largest in terms of land area (after
Irvine
), and it is known for its theme parks, sports teams, and convention center.
Founded by
fifty German
families in
1857 and incorporated on February 10, 1870, Anaheim developed into
an industrial center, producing electronics, aircraft
parts, and canned fruit. It is the site of the Disneyland
Resort
, a world-famous grouping of theme parks and hotels which
opened in 1955, Angel Stadium of Anaheim
, Honda
Center
, and Anaheim Convention Center
, the largest convention center on the West
Coast. Its name is a
blend of "Ana", after the nearby
Santa Ana River, and "heim", a
common German place name compound originally meaning "home".
Anaheim's
city limits stretch from Cypress
in the west to the Riverside
County
line in the east and encompass a diverse collection
of neighborhoods and communities. Anaheim Hills is a highly
wealthy master-planned community that is home to many sports stars
and executives located in the city's eastern stretches.
West
Anaheim is notable for its more mature neighborhoods dating from
the 1950s, which comprise part of the continuous suburban sprawl
extending from Los
Angeles
. The Anaheim Resort, a commercial district,
includes Disneyland and the neighboring hotel and retail complexes.
The
Platinum Triangle, a neo-urban redevelopment district surrounding Angel Stadium
, is planned to be populated with mixed-use streets
and high-rises. Finally, The Canyon
is an industrial district north of the
Riverside Freeway and east of the
Orange Freeway.
History

Anaheim in 1965
The city
of Anaheim was founded in 1857 by grape farmers and wine makers
from Franconia in Bavaria
. The first such settler was
Daniel Kraemer. The colony was situated on .

Anaheim in 1879
voted to call the community Annaheim, meaning "home by the Santa
Anna River" in German. The name later was changed slightly, to
Anaheim. To the Spanish-speaking neighbors, the settlement was
known as Campo Alemán (Spanish for German Camp). The grape industry
was destroyed in the 1880s by an insect pest. Other crops -
walnuts, lemons, and of course oranges - soon filled the void,
fruits and vegetables having become viable cash crops when the Los
Angeles - Orange County region was connected to the continental
railroad network in 1886.
The famous Polish actress
Helena
Modjeska settled in Anaheim with her husband and various
friends, among them
Henryk
Sienkiewicz,
Julian Sypniewski and
Łucjan Paprocki. While living in Anaheim, Helena Modjeska became
good friends with Clementine Langenberger, the second wife of
August Langenberger.
Helena
Street and
Clementine Street are named after these two
ladies, and the streets are located adjacent to each other as a
symbol of the strong friendship which Helena Modjeska and
Clementine Lagenberger shared.
Modjeska Park in West Anaheim, is also named after
Helena Modjeska.

Anaheim in 1922
In the 1920s, the
Ku Klux Klan, at the
height of its influence and popularity, decided to make Anaheim a
"model" Klan city. In 1924, the Klan secretly managed to get four
of its members elected to the five-member Board of Trustees. Nine
of the ten members of the police force were also Klansmen. The four
Klan trustees served for nearly a year, until they were publicly
exposed, and voted out in a recall election in which 95% of the
population participated.
During
the first half of the 20th century, before Disneyland
opened its doors to the public, Anaheim was a
massive rural community inhabited by orange groves, and the landowners who farmed them. One of the
landowners was a man by the name of Bennett Payne Baxter. He owned
much land in northeast Anaheim that today is the location of
Edison Park. He came up with many new ideas for
irrigating orange groves and shared his ideas with other
landowners. He was not only successful, he helped other landowners
and businesspeople succeed as well. Ben Baxter and other landowners
helped to make Anaheim a thriving rural community before Disneyland
changed the city forever. Today, a street runs along
Edison
Park which is named Baxter Street. Also during this time,
Rudolph Boysen served as Anaheim's
first Park Superintendent from 1921 to 1950. Boysen created a
hybrid berry which
Walter Knott later
named the
boysenberry, after Rudy
Boysen.
Boysen Park in East Anaheim was also named
after him.
The
Disneyland
theme park was constructed in Anaheim from July 16,
1954 to July 17, 1955 and has since become Anaheim's largest
tourist attraction. The location was formerly of orange and
walnut trees, some of which remain inside Disneyland property.
Hotels and motels began to spread, and residential districts soon
followed, with increasig property values.
In 2001, Disney's
California Adventure
, the most expansive project in the theme park's
history, opened to the public.
In the late 20th century, Anaheim grew rapidly in population.
Today, Anaheim has a diverse ethnic and racial composition.
During the large expansion of the Disneyland resort in the 1990s,
the city of Anaheim then recognized itself as a resort epicenter,
thus creating the
Anaheim Resort.
It
includes the Disneyland
Resort
, the Anaheim Convention Center
, the Honda
Center
--home of the NHL Anaheim
Ducks (formerly known as the "Mighty Ducks"), and Angel Stadium
, home to the Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim. The city has undergone a rigorous
transformation in creating metropolitan beautification to attract
tourism. In 2007, the city celebrated its
sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) by
opening the Anaheim Walk of Fame near the
Harbor Boulevard entrance to the Disneyland
Resort. The first star to be placed on the Anaheim Walk of Fame was
Walt Disney, the man most responsible
for making Anaheim the hugely popular tourist destination it is
today.
Anaheim in 1890
Law and government
City government

Anaheim City Hall.
Under its
city charter, Anaheim
operates under a
council-manager government.
Legislative authority is vested in a
city
council of five
nonpartisan members,
who hire a professional city manager to oversee day-to-day
operations. The mayor serves as the presiding officer of the city
council in a
first among equals
role. All council seats are elected at large. Voters elect the
mayor and four other members of the city council to serve four-year
staggered terms. Elections for two council seats are held in years
divisible by four while elections for the mayor and the two other
council seats are held during the intervening even-numbered years.
Under the city's
term limits, an
individual may serve a maximum of two terms as a city council
member and two terms as the mayor.
- Mayor: Curt Pringle (since
2002)
- City Manager: Thomas J. Wood (since 2009)
- City Council
- Lorri Galloway (since 2004)
- Bob Hernandez (since 2002)
- Lucille Kring (since 2006)
- Harry Sidhu (since 2004)
Emergency services
Fire protection is provided by the
Anaheim Fire Department. Law
enforcement is provided by the
Anaheim Police Department.
Ambulance service is provided by
Care Ambulance Service.
Federal, state and county representation
In the
United
States House of Representatives, Anaheim is split among three
Congressional districts:
In the
California State
Senate, Anaheim is split among three districts:
In the
California State
Assembly, Anaheim is split among six districts:
On the
Orange County
Board of Supervisors, Anaheim is divided between two districts,
with Anaheim Hills lying in the 3rd District and the remainder of
Anaheim lying in the 4th District:
Geography
Anaheim is located at . .anaheim is approximately 25 miles south
east of downtown Los Angeles
According to the
United
States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of
130.7 km² (50.5
mi²).
126.8 km² (48.9 mi²) of it is land and 3.9 km²
(1.5 mi²) of it (2.99%) is water.
In the
western portion of the city (not including Anaheim
Hills
), the major surface streets run east to west,
starting with the northernmost, are La Palma Avenue, Orangethorpe
Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, Ball Road, and Katella Avenue. The
major surface streets running north-south, starting with the
westernmost, are Knott Avenue, Beach Boulevard (
SR 39), Magnolia Avenue,
Brookhurst Street, Euclid Street, Harbor Boulevard, Anaheim
Boulevard, and State College Boulevard.
The
Santa Ana Freeway (I-5), the
Orange Freeway (SR 57), the
Riverside Freeway (SR 91) all pass through
Anaheim. The
Costa Mesa Freeway
(SR 55), and the
Eastern
Transportation Corridor (SR 241) also have short stretches
within the city limits.
Anaheim is served by rail by two major railroads, the
Union Pacific Railroad and the
BNSF Railway.
In addition, Anaheim
sees Amtrak California and
Metrolink services
and hosts a major regional train station in the Angel Stadium
parking lot.

The Anaheim Convention Center
The
current federal Office
of Management and Budget metropolitan designation for Anaheim
and the Orange
County Area
is "Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine,
CA."
The city
recognizes several districts, including
the Anaheim Resort (the area surrounding Disneyland), The Canyon
(an industrial area north of the Riverside Freeway and east of the Orange Freeway), and the Platinum Triangle
(the area surrounding Angel Stadium
). Anaheim Hills
also maintains a distinct identity.
Downtown Anaheim is located in the
heart of the Colonial District. Downtown is the administrative
heart of the city where you find West City Hall, East City Hall,
Anaheim Police Headquarters, the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, and
the Main Library. Anaheim Ice (formerly Disney Ice), Farmer's
Market and the Center Street Promenade are also located in Downtown
Anaheim. In the Fall of 2007,
The Muzeo, the newest major museum in Orange
County, opened its doors for the first time, and is located next to
West City Hall.
Pearson
Park is also located in Downtown Anaheim, and is named after
Charles Pearson, who was Mayor of
Anaheim during the time Walt Disney
opened Disneyland
in Anaheim. One of the major attractions
located in Pearson Park is the
Pearson Park Ampitheater. In the Colonial District
just west of Downtown Anaheim, is the
Mother
Colony House, which was built by
George Hanson, the Founder of Anaheim. Today, it is
Anaheim's and Orange County's oldest museum, which is still open to
the public. The
Stoffel Houseis a Victorian Mansion located
next door to the Mother Colony House. Originally the Victorian Home
was occupied by the
Stoffel
Family, early pioneer residents of Anaheim. Today, this
historic home is the local headquarters for the American Red
Cross.
Climate
Economy
Anaheim's largest and most important industry is
tourism.
Its Anaheim Convention Center
is home to many national conferences, and the
Walt Disney Company is by far
the city's largest employer. Many hotels, especially in the
city's Resort district, serve theme park tourists and
conventiongoers.
Several notable corporations have offices in Anaheim.
Banco Popular, a bank based in
Puerto Rico, has one of their North American
headquarters in Anaheim.
Crime
Anaheim ranks as one of the safest cities of its size in the
nation. In 2003, Anaheim reported nine
murders, 35% of the national average.
Rape within the city is relatively low as well, but has
been increasing, along with the national average.
Robbery (410 reported incidents) and aggravated
assault (824 incidents) rank among the
highest
violent crimes in the city,
but even at that, robbery rates are still only half of the national
average, and aggravated assaults are at 68% of the average. 1,971
burglaries were reported, as well as 6,708
thefts, 1,767 car thefts, and 654 car
accidents. All three types of crime were below average. There were
43 cases of
arson reported in 2003, 43% of the
national average.
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Demographics
As of the
census of 2000, there were 345,556
people, 96,969 households, and 73,502 families residing in the
city. The
population density was
2,587.8/km² (6,842.7/mi²). There were 99,719 housing units at an
average density of 786.7/km² (2,037.5/mi²). The racial makeup of
the city was 55%
White,
3%
Black or
African American, 0.93%
Native American, 12%
Asian, 0.42%
Pacific Islander, 24% from
other races, and 5% from
two or more races. 46% of the population were
Hispanic or
Latino of any race.
There were 96,969 households out of which 43.0% had children under
the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were
married couples living together, 13.1% had a female
householder with no husband present, and 24.2% were non-families.
18.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.1% had
someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average
household size was 3.34 and the average family size was 3.75.
In the city the population was spread out with 30.2% under the age
of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 17.7% from 45 to
64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was
30 years. For every 100 females there were 100.1 males. For every
100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.1 males.
The
median income for a household in
the city was $47,122, and the median income for a family was
$49,969. Males had a median income of $33,870 versus $28,837 for
females. The
per capita income for
the city was $18,266. About 10.4% of families and 14.1% of the
population were below the
poverty line,
including 18.9% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or
over.
Education
As of May 2006, Anaheim is served by eight public school
districts:
The City of Anaheim hosts one private university:
Anaheim University.
Transportation
Anaheim is served by two public bus transit systems (
Metro and
OCTA) and 2 rail
systems (
Amtrak and
Metrolink).
Anaheim is serviced
by John Wayne
Airport
located , Long Beach Airport
located away, Los Angeles
International Airport
(LAX)located away , Ontario
Airport
, located away and San
Bernardino International Airport
located about away. Anaheim is serviced
by five airports in all, but its primary airport is the John
Wayne--Orange County Airport
. The John Wayne Airport carries "Orange
County" as its destination moniker, which is displayed on most
arrival and departure monitors and gate signs in airports
throughout the country. Orange County is used as the common name
for the
Santa
Ana-Anaheim-Irvine Area.
Anaheim will soon be home to a regional transportation gateway
(known as "ARTIC"), which will connect many different types of
transportation medians in one location. A monorail has been
proposed to connect the Artic transportation hub to the resort
district.
In addition, a not-for-profit organization called the "Anaheim
Transportation Network" provides local shuttle service in the
Disneyland Resort area serving local hotels and both the California
Adventure and Disneyland theme parks.
Disney GOALS, a major southern California not for profit
organization also operates daily free bus service for low income
youth in the central Anaheim area. This bus service enables access
to local, high end athletic competition for youth who would
otherwise have no way to access those activities (or venues).
Attractions
Sports teams
Current teams
Defunct teams
Court battle against the Angels
On January 3, 2005, Angels Baseball LP, the ownership group for the
Anaheim Angels, announced that it would change the name of the club
to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Arturo Moreno believed Team spokesmen pointed
out that from its inception, the Angels had been granted
territorial rights by Major League
Baseball to the counties of Los
Angeles, Ventura
, Riverside
, and San Bernardino
in addition to Orange County
. The new owner knew the name would help him
market the team to the entire Southern California region rather
than just Orange County. The "of Anaheim" was included in the
official name to comply with a provision of the team's lease at
Angel Stadium which requires that "Anaheim be included" in the
team's name.
Mayor
Curt Pringle and other city
officials countered that the name change violated the spirit of the
lease clause, even if it were in technical compliance. They argued
that a name change was a major bargaining chip in negotiations
between the city and
Disney
Baseball Enterprises, Inc., then the ownership group for the
Angels. They further argued that the city would never have agreed
to the new lease without the name change, because the new lease
required that the city partially fund the stadium's renovation but
provided very little revenue for the city. Anaheim sued Angels
Baseball LP in Orange County
Superior
Court, and a jury
trial was
completed in early February 2006, resulting in a victory for the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim franchise.
Anaheim appealed the court decision with the
California Court of Appeal in May
2006. The case was tied up in the Appeals Court for over two years.
In December 2008, the Appeals Court upheld the February 2006
Decision and ruled in favor of The Angels Organization. In January
2009, The Anaheim City Council voted not to appeal the court case
any further, bringing an end to the four year legal dispute between
the City of Anaheim and the Angels Organization..
Disney vs. Suncal vs. Anaheim
In March
2007 the Disney corporation filed a lawsuit
against the City of Anaheim after the city approved a developer's
plan to construct 1,500 homes in the Resort Area, a district
surrounding Disneyland
. Disney claims that
the city breached a contract signed between the city and Resort
Area businesses in 1994 banning any housing to be constructed
within the Resort Area thereby reserving all land in the district
for tourism and commercial uses. By voting 3-2 to approve the
housing development in April, the city of Anaheim thereby violated
the terms of the contract.
In response, Disney, Mayor
Curt
Pringle, and Council member Harry Sidhu formed a coalition
called 'Save Our Anaheim Resort' with the objective of overturning
the zoning allowance thereby keeping the initial plan for the
Resort Area intact. The highly successful group boasted support
from several local politicians, many building trade unions, the
Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, the Anaheim Police Department, and the
Anaheim Fire Department, as well as 97% of all businesses within
the Resort Area. The group collected 21,000 petitions, 9,000 more
than needed, to overturn the council's decision to rezone the area
with the option of either the council turning the decision over or
the city hold an election to vote on the initiative.
In response, Council member Lorri Galloway, Council member Bob
Hernandez,
SunCal, and some local affordable
housing advocates came together to form a group known as 'The
Coalition to Protect and Defend Anaheim'. Their objective was to
keep the rezoning approved by the council as legitimate, and stop
the so-called "
Disney Takeover".
At the August 21, 2007 city council meeting, the council voted 4-1
to place the zoning decision on the June 3, 2008 ballot (Ms.
Galloway voted against). This referendum would have overturned the
zoning change on the of land SunCal wanted to build on. On November
27, 2007 the City Council rescinded the decision on a 3-2 vote and
cancelled the zoning change, thereby eliminating the need for the
referendum.
The next day, August 22, 2007 had the Save Our Anaheim Resort group
submit 31,348 signatures for verification for an Initiative that
would require that any zoning change in the entire Anaheim Resort
District for other than commercial and tourist related uses to be
approved by the voters. This Initiative was placed on the June 3,
2008 ballot, and is separate from the referendum. On March 4, 2008,
the city council revisited the Initiative and decided to adopt the
measure outright by a 3-2 vote, saving about $250,000 in election
costs, since the measure no longer needs to be on the ballot.In
October 2007, SunCal defaulted on a payment for the property in
question. SunCal has also pulled funding for this legal
suit.
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Then in November 2007, The Frank Family, owners of the Mobile Home
Park land in dispute, filed a counter suit against SunCal for their
failure to make the required payment in October 2007.
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Notable natives and residents
- Kenneth Michael
Trentadue -- Anaheim, California
- Joseph M. Acaba - NASA
astronaut
- Amanda Babin - 4th-placer on
Cycle 7 of
America's Next Top
Model
- Michelle Babin - 5th-placer on
Cycle 7 of
America's Next Top
Model
- Cristina Ballestero - dancer and singer for the
pop girl group
Kali Girls
- Angela Perez Baraquio,
former Miss America (2001)
- Larry Beckett - poet and songwriter
- Moon Bloodgood - actress
- Rudolph Boysen - horticulturist who created the boysenberry
- Jeff Buckley - singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Tim Buckley - singer-songwriter,
experimental vocalist, and musician
- Austin Butler - actor
- Rod Carew - former Major League
Baseball player
- Carlos Cavazo - former guitarist
for the heavy metal, glam metal and hard rock
band Quiet Riot
- Milorad
Čavić - Serbian
swimmer
- Rosalind Chao - actress
- Lou Correa - politician and California State
Legislator
- Don Davis - film score composer,
conductor, and orchestrator
- Reuben Droughns - National
Football League player
- Eden Espinosa - singer and
stage actress
- Jim Fassel - former NFL head
coach
- Jeff Feagles - National Football
League player
- Daniel Fells - National Football
League player
- Jim Fielder - bassist for rock group
Blood, Sweat &
Tears
- Jorge Flores -
professional soccer player
- Lori Harrigan - Olympic softball player
- Bobby Hatfield - singer, one half
of the musical duo the Righteous Brothers
- John Huarte - former National
Football League player
- Tommy John - former Major League
Baseball player
- Carl and Margaret Karcher - founders of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain
- Frankie Kazarian - professional wrestler
- Samuel Kraemer - rancher, oilman,
and businessman
- Thomas H. Kuchel - United States Senator and Republican Party whip
- Mark Langston - former Major
League Baseball player
- Crystal Lewis - Singer
- Rob Liefeld - comic book writer, illustrator, and
publisher
- Mike Lockwood - professional
wrestler, best known as Crash Holly
- Chris Manderino - National
Football League player
- Donnie Moore - former Major League
Baseball player
- Bill Murphy - Major League Baseball
player
- Naomi Nari Nam - figure skater
- Connie Needham - actress
- Augie Nieto - entrepreneur and
founder of the amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis charity Augie's Quest
- No Doubt - Grammy Award-winning rock group
- Brian Noble -
former National Football League player
- Curt Pringle - politician, Mayor of
Anaheim, and former California State
Legislator
- Alyson Reed - dancer and
actress
- Linda Sánchez - U.S. Congresswoman
- Loretta Sanchez - U.S.
Congresswoman
- Stacey Q - synthpop and dance-pop
singer, dancer, and actress
- Steve Scarsone - former Major
League Baseball player
- John F. Seymour - United States
Senator and Mayor
of Anaheim
- Dana Schoenfield - 1972 Olympic
Games Silver Medalist in Swimming
- Harry Sidhu - politician and Anaheim
City Councilman
- Steve Soto - punk musician and bassist for Agent Orange and The Adolescents
- Gwen Stefani - singer, songwriter,
fashion designer, and frontwoman of
the rock band No Doubt
- Tairrie B - former rapper and later alternative metal frontwoman for Tura Satana and My
Ruin
- Lisa Tucker - singer and
finalist on the fifth
season of American Idol
- Milo Ventimiglia - actor
- Jaret Wright - former Major League
Baseball player
Sister cities
See also
References
External links