Anaheim
— — the corner of California a long summer never quite leaves.
Not only on a wall.
“The city sits in north Orange County, about 28 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles on the Santa Ana River. It was founded in 1857 by fifty German vintner families who named it Ana-heim, home on the Ana. The vineyards are gone. What remains is the long warm summer that drew them, the river bed under the freeway, and the original four square miles of grid behind the boulevard.
Anaheim, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Anaheim sits in north Orange County, California, about 28 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles on the south bank of the Santa Ana River. The original townsite was a four-square-mile grid laid out in 1857 by fifty German families from San Francisco who pooled funds to buy 1,165 acres from Juan Pacífico Ontiveros's Rancho San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana. The name combines the river's Spanish name with the German Heim, meaning home. The city was incorporated in 1876 and now holds about 346,000 people.
Disneyland Park opened on Harbor Boulevard on 17 July 1955 and remains the only Disney park Walt Disney walked himself. The Disneyland Resort now includes a second gate, Disney California Adventure, and the Downtown Disney shopping district, drawing roughly 28 million visitors a year in pre-pandemic counts. The Anaheim Convention Center across Katella Avenue from the resort is the largest convention venue on the West Coast at 1.8 million square feet. Angel Stadium and the Honda Center, home of the NHL Ducks, sit two miles east of downtown.
The Santa Ana winds give the river — and the city named for it — its character: dry, warm offshore air that pours down through the canyons from the high desert in autumn, lifting fire risk across the basin. Summer highs in Anaheim sit in the upper 80s Fahrenheit; January lows rarely fall below 45. The orange groves that defined Orange County's mid-century image were largely cleared by the 1970s as the city built out around the resort and the original German vineyards faded from the landscape.