Beginnings of the The Youth Center in Los Alamitos

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

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

(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