The following article was originally published in the June 1956 issue of Westways Magazine. At the time Los Alamitos was still an unincorporated area of 600 residents, mainly residing in the Old Town areas just north of Katella Avenue and Los Alamitos Boulevard, the Garden Park Acres (now Apartment Row) between Katella and Farquhar and … Read more
The following article was originally published in the June 1956 issue of Westways Magazine. At the time Los Alamitos was still an unincorporated area of 600 residents, mainly residing in the Old Town areas just north of Katella Avenue and Los Alamitos Boulevard, the Garden Park Acres (now Apartment Row) between Katella and Farquhar and … Read more
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 — although there is a certain charm of sorts to its previous treeless landscape.) To see larger versions of this photo and more of Seal … Read more
(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 founder Philip A. Stanton must have been a very driven man. By 1913, he had been a very successful real estate agent for over 25 … Read more
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 lots of events to attend and help celebrate the city’s 95th Birthday. There’s going to be a dinner/dance on Saturday night, October 2nd at Old … Read more
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 meeting people and making connections. Within his first year he had joined two Sons of Civil War Veterans groups, was President of the Unity Social … Read more
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. Over the years of avoiding real work, I’ve spent a lot of time researching the history of our little corner of the world. And we … Read more
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 began …. Blah blah bla yada yada yada…Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz (yawn!)…. C’mon, Larry, cut to the chase. Will LATV even continue to be on the air? And more … Read more
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 Village Shopping Center (where Polly’s Pies is now located) but around 1985 it moved just over a mile east to its present location at the … Read more
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 stations such as KNBC-Ch. 4. But last Friday’s contest between the Los Al Griffins and the Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits was very special. When head … Read more