FOCUS: ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY NEWS | NORTHWEST: LOS ALAMITOS February 11, 1998|JOHN CANALIS Officials are pushing to open the swimming pool at the Armed Forces Reserve Center for community recreation programs. Representatives from Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Cypress and Seal Beach met recently with base commanders to discuss plans to reopen the Olympic-size pool. The outdoor … Read more
On May 24, 2011, Huguette Clark, one of the world’s richest women and subject of many TV reports last fall, died at the age of 104. Worth over an estimated half billion dollars, she grew up in New York’s Gilded Age, among the Guggenheims, Astors, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts. When she died, she hadn’t been seen … Read more
Michael Reagan was one of the earliest workers to come to the new town of Los Alamitos when it was formed in 1896. After working to help build the factory he started drilling wells for water and soon took over operations of the town’s water company. Main Street was later renamed for Reagan. Reagan’s … Read more
Most of the first merchants in Los Alamitos were saloon keepers. And many not of the best reputation. These men catered to the hard-working railroad track layers and the teamsters who helped haul equipment around. Immediately after the construction of the sugar factory and a railroad to the site were first announced, the citizens … Read more
The earliest mention of a public library in Los Alamitos goes back to Feb. 13, 1922 [ref]News Notes of California Libraries, Oct. 1922 , p.608-612; p. 613, Laurel [/ref]. A state directory listing for the new Orange County Free Library System, says it serves the entire county except Anaheim, Buena Park Library District, Fullerton, Huntington … Read more
30 JULY 1959 — (Enterprise, p.1) Residents fume at “Outsiders” For attempt to Re-locate Air Base. Local Los Al residents get upset at a committee of Westminster and Garden Grove landowners and developers, who start campaign to “relocate the Los Al Naval Air Station. The committee includes only one “local,” Westminster dairyman Ale Tuinhout, but … Read more
JAN 1896 – Dyer and Capitain enter in agreement to sell bonds for the Cerritos Sugar Company. They agreed to sell enough bonds to raise $4[00,000?]. After that sum had been reached, they could begin to deduct their expenses and [earn/draw] a commission; all of this had to be accomplished before November 1, 1896. Apparently, … Read more
Many previous local histories cite the Los Alamitos School District’s s origins as going to back to 1881, a reference which is incorrect. [These errors seem to be based on the oft-cited, but long after the fact, memories of former OC Supervisor Thom. Talbert, Historical Volume and reference Works, Vol. II, Orange County, page 22 … Read more
This obituary below appeared in the North County Times (San Diego County), February 23, 2006. Garland Stephens was a very involved personality in the Los Alamitos-Rossmoor area. He apparently became more involved with the Race Track affairs after the death of Frank Vessels, Sr. in 1963. He was very involved with the track during the … Read more
Grades 5-6-7-8 A.M. 9:00- 9:15 — Opening and General Work 9:15- 9:30 — Arithmetic – Fifth 9:30- 9:45 — Arithmetic – Sixth 9:45-10:00 — Arithmetic – Seventh 10:00-10:05 — Calisthenics 10:05-10:20 — Arithmetic and Geometry – Eighth 10:20-10:30 — Language – Fifth 10:30-10:45 — Language – Sixth 10:45-11:00 — Recess 11:00-11:15 — … Read more