Larry Strawther The first published acknowledgement of the Rossmoor project were printed in the Enterprise August 19, 1955 issue. Cortese would option a number of properties to create this project. The first part was land north of Orangewood that was owned by Willis Tubeck, and the Irvine Ranch. They had purchased this parcel in 1951 from the … Read more
Carrier Row was the second real estate development south of Katella Avenue. But it was originally called Los Alamitos Park and developed in three different phases after World War II. And it apparently was similar to a development called Puente Vista in the West Covina area. This article comes from then May 8, 1955 Los … Read more
This was first publisheed in the May 18, 1954 issue of the Long Beach Independent-Press-Telegram. Sports Page 3 Alamitos Gets New Structure By JERRY WYNN The rags to riches story of Los Alamitos Race Course will get a new chapter soon with the construction of a million dollar grandstand. Track President Frank Vessels Sr. ann0unced … Read more
Here’s a new club in Los Alamitos that we hadn’t heard about before — the Good Neighbor Club. We’re not sure exactly what it did at this point – other than be good neighborly — but this blurb in the Press-Telegram is proof that the club existed. LOS ALAMITOS Jan. 25 — On Wednesday the … Read more
2 SEP 1922 – Facts About Sugar, Vol. XV, No. 11, p. 210 ALAMITOS EXPECTS 225,000 BAGS Santa Ana, Cal, Sept. 2 — A production of 225,000 bags of sugar or about 75 per cent of normal, is hoped for this year by the Los Alamitos Sugar Company, according to Manager E.C. Hamilton of the … Read more