obit – Death Takes Clark J. Bonner, Sr.
Clark J. Bonner was a nephew of William A. Clark and J. Ross Clark, the builders of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. When J. Ross Clark died in 1927, Bonner…
1949 — marriage of Phyllis Marie Beerling and George Dennis Watte
originally published in Long Beach Independent. Sept. 25, 1949 Mrs. Beerling is Mrs. Watte St. Matthew’s Catholic Church was the setting Saturday for a 9 a.m. wedding ceremony uniting Phyllis…
Los Alamitos – Early Memories – Bessie Juszkievicz
This article was originally published in The News-Enterprise, presumably in the year 1980. Bessie Juszkievicz was the wife of Bronislav Juszkievicz who was the field superintendent for the sugar beet…
bio – John C. Ord, early Los Alamitos and Seal Beach judge and merchant
John Ord is one of Seal Beach’s most familiar names. Over the years he continually claimed that he was not only Seal Beach’s first resident, but that for a long…
1933 – Berger Going Ahead With His Race Track
originally published in Los Angeles Times, May 30, 1933 The sport of horse racing did not technically begin in the Los Alamitos area when Frank Vessels started his Sunday “bet-less”…
1931: We Really Live Now: Just try to Take us Back to the City
In their never-ending quest to synergize new ways of making money, the LA Times used to run many more special sections and pages. One was “Little Farm Homes”. This is…
1931: We Really Live Now: Just try to Take us Back to the City
In their never-ending quest to synergize new ways of making money, the LA Times used to run many more special sections and pages. One was “Little Farm Homes”. This is…
June 21, 1935 — Dorothy B. George, One of first women in Los Al to get pilots license
I’m not sure just how accurate the headline is but I thought this little tidbit from the June 25, 1935 LA Times to be of interest. Eleven applicants for mon-commercial…
obit – Alice Otte Cosyns, of Los Alamitos
from the Long Beach Indpendent, Sunday, Nov. 8, 1950 — page 43-A Rosary or Mrs. Alice Otte Cosyns, 73, of Los Alamitos, who died yesterday, will be recited at 8pm…
Esther Mejia – Los Alamitos’ oldest living resident
originally submitted to the OC Register, and published on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 She tells stories from Los Alamitos’ past Esther Mejia, 94, lives in the house where she grew…