History lesson
That little old-fashioned building at 241 S. Anaheim Blvd. is not the public library, even though the large block letters spread across its front tell you that it is. It is the Anaheim Museum a place where old-timers, newcomers and visitors can find out how one of the nation's most popular tourist destinations rose from a grove of ora"We still get people who walk in the front door, stand there and look dumb," said Charlotte Brady, president of the museum's board of trustees. Apparently, some Anaheim residents have not been to the library for a while. It moved in the 1960s. The museum building was built for $10,000 in 1908 with a grant from the Carnegie Foundation. The foundation was offering the money to any US city that would buy land for a library.