August 1907 – Murder in Early Los Alamitos
The young town of Los Alamitos had a reputation as a rough place, and this incident did nothing to change that image. It is culled from the files of The…
1899-1900 – Orange County Directory – Los Alamitos
1899-1900 Orange County Directory Belt Fine Publishing, Santa Ana — $2.00 March 1899 LOS ALAMITOS Is located on a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad some 14 miles northwest of…
1899 – Pete Labourdette opens a saloon just outside Los Alamitos
P. ___ Tarride operated a saloon, winery and grocery in what would become the city of Los Alamitos. He is listed in the 1899-1900 City index published in the Orange…
1860’s: Flint, Bixby & Co buy Irvine & Los Cerritos ranchos, will become largest landowners in the state,
The most prominent family in the growth and development of the Long Beach and West Orange County area were the Bixbys. The family’s “patriarch” of sorts was Lewellyn Bixby who…
June-July 1903 – Mexican, Japanese field workers organize at Los Alamitos
This article is from the The Sugar beet, Volume 24, Issue 7, one of the three principal trade publications covering the Sugar Industry throughout the world. The Beet’s correspondent, Rialto,…
Jan 1992 – Horsewoman Millie Vessels Is Dead at 72
Horsewoman Millie Vessels Is Dead at 72 : Racing: She took over management of Los Alamitos after her husband’s death in 1974. January 22, 1992|BILL CHRISTINE | TIMES STAFF WRITER…
Biography: Los Al Race Track founder Frank Vessels – He bet the ranch and brought home a winner
Note: this article is a work in progress. I have come across a number of articles and bios on Los Al Race Track founder Frank Vessels, but much of the…
1908 – Alamitos Congregational Church gets new minister
The Pacific, Volume 58, Issues 1-26, p8-9 (1908). By Congregational Churches in California. Northern California Congregational Conference Los Alamitos.—The Los Alamitos Congregational Church, which has had a struggle to live,…
Oct. 14, 1897 – Weekly statistical sugar trade journal, Volume 21
LOS ALAMITOS, Cal.—The beet sugar factory of the Los Alamitos Sugar Co. employs 75 men day and night, and produces 40 tons of granulated sugar per day. The capacity of…
Early Mexican workers in Los Alamitos
Source: The Home missionary: Volumes 74-76 – Page 198 (1902) The Home Missionary was the annual publication of the Congregational Church Missionary Society, which supplied the minister for the Congregational…