Larry Strawther The Beet Sugar Gazette was a monthly publication covering the entire sugar beet Industry around the world. With offices in Chicago, it was published on the 5th day of each month. Each month its pages featured articles on sugar beet cultivation and the sugar manufacturing process, and reports from correspondents in sugar producing areas or … Read more
March 31, 1985|SUSAN LOUX, LA Times Sparked by a $30,000 donation, a dream for the Los Alamitos Unified School District just may come true. The school district has been in need of an arena for school concerts, plays, special events and large-scale testing. In the past, it made do with a multipurpose room that seats … Read more
Jack Baird was a real estate agent and insurance man in Los Alamitos. He lived in Los Alamitos in the 1930s, then he and his family, which included his daughter Laura then aged three, moved to Long Beach. There Laura grew up, became a singer of some local renown and married architect Edward Killingsworth who … Read more
The new growing town of Los Alamitos offered great opportunities to the open farmlands of the Hellman Ranch, but it also caused unintended problems for landowner I.W. Hellman, as articulated by his land agent, Philip A. Stanton. The Landing, which had always been a summer resort area, suddenly held even more appeal to a larger … Read more
ORANGE COUNTY ________ MOTHER OF NINE SMALL CHILDREN BECOMES INSANE _________ Mrs. Goodens of Los Alamitos Imagines She Saw Two Men Murder a Boy in Front of Her House. Bolz sentence SANTA ANA, Nov. 12 — [Regular Correspondence.] Mrs. Elisha Gooden was brought from Los Alamitos today by Constables Devoe and Hickox, and after … Read more
This was originally published in the July 5, 1898 edition of the LA Times, pg10. LOS ALAMITOS, July 5—[Regular Correspondence] The fourth of July celebration yesterday was very successful. Over seven hundred people were here enjoying themselves. Just 410 took advantage of the sugar factory’s being open for their inspection. All the stores in town … Read more
originally published in the LA Times, on April 10, 1986 Winners in Los Alamitos Race Share Concern Over City’s Image April 10, 1986|JANET ZIMMERMAN | Times Staff Writer The election of incumbent Anthony R. Selvaggi and new members Robert P. Wahlstrom and Alice B. Jempsa to the Los Alamitos City Council Tuesday was also a … Read more
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 who had been a successful businessman in his own right, assumed control of J. Ross Clark’s financial interests. He already controlled the financial interests of … Read more
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 Marie Beerling, 1770 Stanley Avenue, and George Dennis Watte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Watte of Los Alamitos. Rev. James P. Lynch was the … Read more
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 time he was the new town’s ONLY resident — all of which was interesting news to the 200 permanent residents who lived a few blocks … Read more