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Seal Beach Founders Day – the media onslaught continues

September 28, 2010 Larry Strawther

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…

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Philip A. Stanton – Part III — A new city, the Joy Zone and the not-so-Joyous zone

September 26, 2010 Larry Strawther

(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…

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Dances, Parades, games and rides planned for Seal Beach’s 95th birthday bash

September 21, 2010 Larry Strawther

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…

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Philip A. Stanton – The Founder Behind Seal Beach’s Founders Day (Part II)

August 19, 2010 Larry Strawther

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…

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Philip A. Stanton – The founder behind Seal Beach’s Founders’ Day

August 17, 2010 Larry Strawther

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.…

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LATV – Dissolution might actually lead to a good thing

February 10, 2007 Larry Strawther

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…

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Bixby Ranch Company to sell Central Coast properties

October 23, 2006 Larry Strawther

Oct. 23, 2006 The Bixby Ranch Company – co-developer and former owner of much of what is now Rossmoor, the College Park area of Seal Beach, and southeast Long Beach…

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BUSINESS: Katella Deli

January 2, 2000 Larry Strawther

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…

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1995 – Nov. – LATV Known for Great Coverage of Los Al Griffins Football Games

November 30, 1995 Larry Strawther

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…

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1994 – LA Times: Water District Board Catches More Flack

March 31, 1994 Larry Strawther

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…

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