1956 – May 17 – Los Alamitos School Board Election
The Los Alamitos school board election of 1956 was certainly one of the most significant votes in the history of the community. Just days before the election, developer Ross Cortese…
1954 – 11 JUN – Los Al 8th Grade Holds Graduation; Kenny Otte sings and Marilyn (Moore) Poe speaks
11 JUN 1954 – Enterprise, p8 — The graduation of the Los Alamitos School Eighth Grade will be held Friday of next week at 7:15p.m. on the terrace lawn of…
Businesses in 1950s Los Alamitos
This can be kind of misleading, because newspapers at the time considered Los Alamitos to extend east to Miller(Valley View) and South to at least Garden Grove Boulevard. remember this…
OBIT: Oct. 11, 1956 – Elmer Layton Dies; Resident here 36 years
LOS ALAMITOS — Elmer Layton, resident of Los Alamitos for 36 years, died Sunday in Orange County hospital after a long illness. He owned and operated Layton’s Blacksmith Shop until…
1956 – Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Watts, longtime Los Al couple, celebrate 60th wedding anniversary
From the March 9, 1956 Enterprise, p. 4, col. 4 Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Watts, 10931 Chestnut, will quietly observe their sixtieth wedding anniversary here Sunday. They are among the…
1955-56 – Early Incorporation efforts in Los Alamitos, the Dairies and Why the Race Track NOT in Los Alamitos
Beginning in 1953 incorporation and annexation fever were sweeping west Orange County. Anaheim was moving west down Lincoln and Katella Avenues. Buena Park formed in 1953 and it was trying…
1956 – OBIT: Paul (Bob) Robinson Passes Away after long out with cancer
From the Thursday January 13, 1956 issue of the Los Alamitos-Cypress Enterprise. Page 1, col 1. (bottom left corner) Los Alamitos Civic Leader passes Away after Long Siege of Cancer…
Mrs. O Watte new Pres. of St. Isadore Altar Society
The Enterprise, Thursday, February 12, 1954, page 7 Mrs. Oscar Watte was elected president for the coming term of the Altar Society of St. Isadore’s Catholic Church of Los Alamitos.…
Beginnings of the The Youth Center in Los Alamitos
I have heard many stories abut the Youth Center’s beginnings in the Los Alamitos area, but never a definitive, documentable explanation. And I suspect, as often happens with institutional histories,…
Chamber of Commerce has long history in Los Alamitos
While not officially incorporated as a city until 1960, Los Alamitos has had a very definite presence since it was first laid out as a sugar factory town in 1896.…