Anaheim

Anaheim (ăn`əhīm), city (1990 pop. 266,406), Orange co., S Calif., SE of Los Angeles; inc. 1870. Anaheim was founded by Germans in 1857 as an experiment in communal living. In an area once dominated by citrus and walnut groves, the city is now an industrial center, making electronic and computer equipment, plastic products, prepared foods, fabricated metal products, consumer goods, motor vehicles, and molded rubber goods. Anaheim is also one of the great tourist and convention centers in the United States. The theme park Disneyland (opened 1955, with Disney's California Adventure, opened 2001) is world famous; the California Angels (baseball) and Anaheim Ducks (hockey) play in Anaheim.

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Anaheim

City (pop., 2000: 328,014), southwestern California, U.S. Lying on the plain of the Santa Ana River 25 mi (40 km) southeast of Los Angeles, it was founded by German immigrants in 1857 as a cooperative agricultural community. After 1950 its citrus groves and vineyards had all but disappeared in the Los Angeles-Orange Co. urban-industrial expansion. Walt Disney's first amusement park, Disneyland, opened there in 1955. Today it is a prominent convention site.