Dec. 13, 1959 – Old Factory said to be Death Trap (LA Times)

The beginning of the end of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory began with the release of a report by Orange County officials detailing all the potential hazards of the abandoned facility.   With all the negatives laid out, and the place being labeled a “death trap,” the absentee landlord (he apparently lived in Pasadena) had no … Read more

BIO: Elmer Orval Hooker

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY – Samuel Armour (1920) Biographies ELMER ORVAL HOOKER. — Prominent among the interesting pioneers of Orange County who have contributed something worth while toward the development of the section in which they have lived and toiled, must be mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Elmer O. Hooker, identified in an enviable way with … Read more