Dale Kroesen

Newspapers in Los Alamitos / West Orange County area

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The following publications regularly carried information on Los Alamitos.  I have information on about half of them and will start filling in as time allows.   EARLY DAYS (PRE 1915) Los Alamitos Bee — published some issues in 1896 and 1897.  It is mentioned by both the Los Angeles Times and the Santa Ana Standard … Read more

Chamber of Commerce has long history in Los Alamitos

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While not officially incorporated as a city until 1960, Los Alamitos has had a very definite presence since it was first laid out as a sugar factory town in 1896.  An early 1897 LA Times article listed the new community as one of the top three towns in Orange County — along with Anaheim and … Read more