Sweet Old Days in Los Alamitos
The following article was originally published in the June 1956 issue of Westways Magazine. At the time Los Alamitos was still an unincorporated area of 600 residents, mainly residing in…
Sweet Old Days in Los Alamitos
The following article was originally published in the June 1956 issue of Westways Magazine. At the time Los Alamitos was still an unincorporated area of 600 residents, mainly residing in…
Seal Beach Founders Day – the media onslaught continues
The photograph to the left goes to show that Main Street in Seal Beach has changed quite a bit over the past fifty years (and for the better, we think…
Philip A. Stanton – Part III — A new city, the Joy Zone and the not-so-Joyous zone
(Okay, this is real long, but cut us some slack. Seal Beach’s Founders Day is coming up, so how can you have too much information about its founder?) Seal Beach…
Dances, Parades, games and rides planned for Seal Beach’s 95th birthday bash
Seal Beach has a party coming up — and while to our minds maybe it should officially be called Incorporation Day instead of Founders Day — it still will have…
Philip A. Stanton – The Founder Behind Seal Beach’s Founders Day (Part II)
As befitting the reported founder of three cities, Phil Stanton was apparently quite the social guy. From the time he arrived in Los Angeles in 1887, Stanton wasted no time…
Philip A. Stanton – The founder behind Seal Beach’s Founders’ Day
As a person with a long history of spending time on things that don’t bring in money or pay bills, it should be no surprise that I’m a history buff.…
LATV – Dissolution might actually lead to a good thing
It might be a local tragedy. Then again it might actually be a golden opportunity. The decision last Monday to dissolve the LATV-3 non-profit corporation followed a five-month controversy that…
BUSINESS: Katella Deli
Katella Deli was opened by Sam Ratman and his sons in 1964. It was originally located in what was then called The Rossmoor Medical Park but is now the Rossmoor…
1995 – Nov. – LATV Known for Great Coverage of Los Al Griffins Football Games
from the News-Enterprise, Nov. 30, 1995; Los Alamitos Television/Channel 3’s recent coverage of the Sunset League and CIF Southern Section Division I Football Playoffs has been featured regularly on broadcast…