This is an aerial view of Plaza Square (a.k.a. The Circle) in Orange, California. The Plaza is closed off, along with two blocks of Chapman and Glassell streets in each direction for the 1976 International Street Fair (ISF). The ISF is held every year during Labor Day weekend. (For people outside the United States, Labor Day is a federal holiday on the first Monday in September.) Due to the number of people in the streets, or rather the lack of people in the streets, I would guess that this photo was taken Thursday, September 2, or Friday, September 3, before the ISF starts, when things are being set up for the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday event. They were making a really big deal about the 1976 ISF because it was the United States Bicentennial. The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. Funny Story #1 In the lower right quadrant, you can see a stage near the outside edge of the street. There was supposed to be a piano delivered for one of the stage shows. My Dad and a few other guys were trying to unload the piano from a flat-bed truck when the piano fell off the truck and crashed onto the street 48 inches (1.2 meters) below. That piano was retired from service. Funny Story #2 I was working security at the 1976 ISF. It wasn't a big deal. We walked around the place in pairs, just keeping an eye on things. For the most part, nothing happened. Except this one time . . . The location was approximately where the diagonal vendor booth is on the street in the bottom of the photo. About 3:00 am we found a really drunk guy with his car backed up to the booth. He was loading cases of beer out of the booth and into the trunk of his car. That looked suspicious, so we went to see what was going on. It turns out he was stealing beer. So we grabbed the guy and marched him down to the police station, just barely out of the photo on the street on the right. As we brought him through the front door of the station to turn him over to the cops, a girl sitting at the front desk in the station looked up at us and said, "Lieutenant Streed! How are you doing tonight?" We just busted a cop! Years later, Wayne Streed became the Chief of Police for Orange. To serve and protect . . . OrgPL_10511825_a1

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