August 1963 – Los Alamitos newsletter: Why Industry?
The following was from the City of Los Alamitos’ August 1963 newsletter to its residents. Why Industry? Recently, the City has taken issue with the Anaheim Union High School District…
January 1963 – Attempts to censor books at Los Alamitos Scored
LB Press-Telegram, Friday, January 11, 1963 Special to the Press Telegram SAN FRANCISCO—Attempts to censor school textbooks in Los Alamitos School District and other Orange County School Districts came under…
Biography: Frank Capitain, architect of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory & town
18 JUN 1897 – Land of Sunshine: A Magazine of California and the Southwest. p42- One of the busiest men and the same time the pleasantest in all Southern California…
April 1897 — A young writer’s look at early Los Alamitos
APRIL 1897 – Ralph Edward Bicknell writes a short description of Los Alamitos in its earliest stages. Bicknell was young but prolific writer who died in 1904, his 23rd year.…
1926-1943 – After the Sugar – The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory and Dr. Ross
The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory was operated for its original purpose for a little over 20 years – from 1897, when it opened as a state of the art facility…
March 1967 – Seal Beach annexes the Rossmoor Center
You’d have to be a hermit or living jn the Bin Laden compound to be oblivious to the recent John Moorlach inspired local conversation about Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, and Seal…
The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory: A model for the Philippines?
A number of interesting facts about the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory can be discerned from this U.S. Government report on the factory and how it might be applicable to raising…
Alois (Louis) Denni – pioneer Los Alamitos dairyman
Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys…
Alois (Louis) Denni – pioneer Los Alamitos dairyman
Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys…
Education in early Los Alamitos
SANTA ANA, Jan. 25—After a bitter legal battle extending over nearly five months, Laurel School District, in the western part of the county, has succeeded in withdrawing from the Las…