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…
OBITS: Nov. 1956 – James Watts 86, James G. Killstrom, 77 – Death Takes Two Los Alamitos Men
Enterprise, Nov. 29, 1956, p. 8 Death Takes Two Los Alamitos Men LOS ALAMITOS — Death took two Los Alamitos men during the past week, both of whom had been…
OBITS: Nov. 1956 – James Watts 86, James G. Killstrom, 77 – Death Takes Two Los Alamitos Men
Enterprise, Nov. 29, 1956, p. 8 Death Takes Two Los Alamitos Men LOS ALAMITOS — Death took two Los Alamitos men during the past week, both of whom had been…
October 1956 – Los Al Teenagers want to start Elvis Presley Fan Club
from the Enterprise, Oct. 25, 1956 (page 8) Teenagers want to Star “Elvis Presley Fan Club” LOS ALAMITOS — An Elvis Presley Fan Club is underway for a group of…
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 – Sep 30 – 3 Flyers Die in Crash; Bombers misses Rossmoor model homes by 200 yards
30 SEP 1956 — 3 FLYERS DIE IN CRASH. — a twin-engine Navy anti-submarine plane from VS 772 crashed into a sugar beet field shortly after taking off from the…
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 – Los Alamitos School Menu
How times have changed. The January 6, 1956 issue of the Enterprise printed the Los Alamitos Elementary School District menu. Monday Sloppy Joes and buttered ham Savory lima beans Cottage…
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…