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This may not seem very historical at first, but it ended up far superior to what I had expected as well. The Anaheim Packing House, if any of you have heard or been to it, is a sort of small shopping mall, restaurant complex in downtown Anaheim. It’s an interesting place, made from what was, up until about two years ago, an Orange packing building. This is where, during the Orange plantation days of Orange county, the produce was packed onto trains and shipped to other parts of the country. I went to this location just to get a burger or something while I was at the Anaheim archive doing some research for my 300B class. The surprising part of this place wasn’t the new, hip, restaurants, but the small sections near the front of the building. There is a meeting room, a sweets bar, and a historical exhibit. It’s very cool, but still a little retro. There is a display cabinet with some of the old equipment from when the packing house was abandoned, around the time they began reconstructing it. There were also a few paintings, and captions along the wall. It was exemplary of a contemporary exhibit. The most important part was a film reel that they had playing over in the corner, which was inside of a kind of reconstructed shed partly built into the wall like a Disney construction. It was really well done, and I was extremely impressed with the entire history section which I spent nearly 45 minutes in despite it’s tiny size. I learned from the Archivist, that the displays had been created by the team over at Museo, a small museum, go figure, that displays small collections every so often.