Tom Harris

1956 – May 17 – Los Alamitos School Board Election

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The Los Alamitos school board election of 1956 was certainly one of the most significant votes in the history of the community. Just days before the election, developer Ross Cortese had officially filed tract maps for his new Rossmoor subdivision of 2,400 new homes.  (Rumors and confirmation of the new subdivision had been circulating for … Read more

Beginnings of the The Youth Center in Los Alamitos

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I have heard many stories abut the Youth Center’s beginnings in the Los Alamitos area, but never a definitive, documentable explanation.  And I suspect, as often happens with institutional histories, many innocent errors have morphed into “truths.”  So the point of this article is to try to begin a process to document the real origins … Read more