OC History Roundup
LOS ALAMITOS, Jan. 31 — Loren Cloud, postmaster, will be installed as president of the Chamber of Commerce at uinstallation ceremonies, conducted this evening. The event, to be preceded by a 7 o’clock dinner, will be staged in the dining hall of the Athletic...
Is St. Isidore Church the oldest building in Los Alamitos? No. The Layton house on Chestnut (reportedly built in 1897) , and probably two other houses on that...
In 1938, even before the war in Europe and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Congress had authorized the construction of new naval aviation training facilities and...
The beginning of the end of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory began with the release of a report by Orange County officials detailing all the potential hazards of the...
HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY – Samuel Armour (1920) Biographies ELMER ORVAL HOOKER. — Prominent among the interesting pioneers of Orange County who have contributed something worth while toward the...
Hugh T. O’Connor is a name that pops up frequently in any study of the City of Los Alamitos from 1900 to 1940. He was first heard from while...
A “Blind Pig” was an old slang term for a dive (or lower-class drinking establishment if you will) that sold alcoholic beverages illegally. The operator such as a saloon...
Los Alamitos sugar factory General Manager E.C. Hamilton, who assumed control of the factory in 1914, continued to update and modernize the Los Alamitos factory and the town seem...
printed in LA Times, August 11, 1903 and Covina Argus, Saturday, August 15 In these days when the fertile valleys of Southern California are cut up into small holdings...
By LEONARD SARGEANT News Assistant City Editor LOS ALAMITOS— Miss Kate Rea, 85½, and her “kid” sister, Mrs. Ella Wallop, 80, were the hits of a ribbon cutting ceremony...
One of the most persistent local myths is that the original wall surrounding Rossmoor was built from the bricks of the demolished Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. While a nice...
Local oldtimers have cited that the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory would kick off its annual campaign — the opening of the factory to take in the just-harvested sugar beet...
