With the recent flak over discussions between Seal Beach, Los Alamitos and Rossmoor to explore sharing services, we thought it might be worthy to note that we have been sharing many services for a number of years. Fire, library, flood control, and sewer come to mind. The Los Alamitos Water District was pushed by the Chamber … Read more
abstract: Unification approved — 3,550 for, 1,541 against. New school board: Margrit Kendrick 3,182, Nancy Lander 2,040, Virginia Wilson 2,910, Mark Abrams 2,547, Bernard Beskind 2,253.
Sep. 17, 1959 – Feisty SRO Rossmoor crowd discuss, insult Los Alamitos incorporation SEP 17, 1959 – Enterprise A feisty, standing-room-only crowd at Rossmoor School… discuss Los Alamitos planned incorporation efforts. Bill Brown from Chamber speaks… Some residents cry for boycott — “if a merchant says he’s a member of the Los Al chamber, don’t … Read more
Over the years, Los Alamitos has played host to a numb er of national gatherings of model airplane fans. The naval air base was a natural host for such events, which often was arranged to also have demonstrations by such precision flying groups as the Blue Angels. The annual national meet was first held in … Read more
Carrier Row was the second real estate development south of Katella Avenue. But it was originally called Los Alamitos Park and developed in three different phases after World War II. And it apparently was similar to a development called Puente Vista in the West Covina area. This article comes from then May 8, 1955 Los … Read more
Carrier Row was the second real estate development south of Katella Avenue. But it was originally called Los Alamitos Park and developed in three different phases after World War II. And it apparently was similar to a development called Puente Vista in the West Covina area. This article comes from then May 8, 1955 Los … Read more
Here’s a new club in Los Alamitos that we hadn’t heard about before — the Good Neighbor Club. We’re not sure exactly what it did at this point – other than be good neighborly — but this blurb in the Press-Telegram is proof that the club existed. LOS ALAMITOS Jan. 25 — On Wednesday the … Read more
2 SEP 1922 – Facts About Sugar, Vol. XV, No. 11, p. 210 ALAMITOS EXPECTS 225,000 BAGS Santa Ana, Cal, Sept. 2 — A production of 225,000 bags of sugar or about 75 per cent of normal, is hoped for this year by the Los Alamitos Sugar Company, according to Manager E.C. Hamilton of the … Read more
The following are articles we have found over the years which have some connection to the growth and development of the Los Alamitos-Rossmoor area, and can be verified via a primary source with specific dates (a newspaper or magazine article, dated correspondence, etc.). If you have items that should be included here, please let … Read more
For most of the time prior to the founding of the Los Alamitos townsite and sugar factory in 1896, the Anaheim Gazette was the primary source of news for happenings around Los Alamitos. Sometimes these blurbs were published in a section called “Alamitos Notes” but occasionally they were in other parts of the paper as … Read more