Old Ranch – Chapter 3 – The Second Decade
This chapter basically covers Old Ranch Country Club from 1978 through the remodel of 1988. During this time the club underwent great change as it continued to grow under general…
Food For Thought #3: Los Al restaurants – On the Boulevard
After two posts on the restaurants of Rossmoor, (Rossmoor Center food here, Rossmoor Village here) we now move “outside the walls” to take a look at the many restaurants of…
Food for Thought #2: Rossmoor Village
For a tiny area, we have had a lot of restaurants over the years. I started compiling a list on a whim and help from locals on the Facebook Rossmoor…
Food for Thought, Part I: Rossmoor Center
This is the first in a series of posts about all the places to eat around here over the years. The development of the Rossmoor Shopping center is an interesting…
The Rossmoor Center annexation … Was it really “theft?”
Probably no incident irritates Rossmoor residents more than the annexation of the Rossmoor Shopping Center by the City of Seal Beach. “If we only had those sales tax dollars… if…
The Marina Palace – A look back 50 years ago
This is an article I originally wrote for the Seal Beach Sun in July 2014. The 100th anniversary of Seal Beach comes up next year, but we are already in…
The Register looks at Los Alamitos in 1930
The Feb. 19, 1930 issue of the Santa Ana Register, celebrating the paper’s 25 anniversary, featured pages dedicated to each Orange County community. Los Alamitos had a full page of…
Which Heads of State have visited the West OC?
What royalty or heads of state have graced the West OC/East LB area with their presence? It seems to not be a very long list. In 1915 former US President…
Los Alamitos area once aspired to be local center of “rabbit and poultry industry” and ended up as Apartment Row
When the local sugar beet factory shut down in 1926, the community scrambled to find new industries and jobs to keep the local population working and profitable. In the newest…