Larry Strawther 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 yesterday which opened an important link to a highway which had been named after them many years before. Scene was the bridge over the San Gabriel … Read more
The Bixbys are a legendary name in the history of Long Beach and the Rancho Los Alamitos, and deservedly so. The true start of the family fortune goes back to the early 1850s when cousins Benjamin and Thomas Flint and Lewellyn Bixby returned home to Maine from Gold Rush California, where they had some success … Read more
A compendium of events that had an effect on the development and history of Rossmoor and Los Alamitos. 1891 Shortly before John Bixby’s estate is settled in 1891, the rest of Rancho Alamitos is divided among the partners. The northern western portion of the Rancho adjacent to the Rancho Los Cerritos (including what would later … Read more
Dutch Haven was the first Los Alamitos subdivision built after Rossmoor went in across Los Alamitos Boulevard. I’m not sure if it was the same developer, but previously another Dutch Haven subdivision was built in the La Palma area (see photo to right) — which of course was populated by many dairy farmers of Dutch … Read more
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
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
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
It may be a stretch to believe it, but there is a Los Alamitos-Elvis Presley connection — beyond the 1955 announcement in the Enterprise that some local Laurel School students had formed an an Elvis Presley fan club and were seeking members. That could have — and probably did– happen everywhere. No, our connection is … Read more
After a short time down for some remodeling, the Los Alamitos McDonald’s restaurant will be reopening next week, according to an article at Shelley Henderson’s OC Breeze website. What is interesting is that in another bit of wisdom that only they will ever understand, the Los Alamitos City Council turned down in 1971 the construction … Read more
One of Ross Cortese’s strengths was his marketing skills. The homes were okay, construction was better than most but as a developer he paid attention to the little things and then made sure everybody knew about them. Cortese hired top name designers and architects — as much for their name as their work. He made … Read more