McDonald’s: Reopening eagerly anticipated now, but in 1971 it was unwelcome in Los Al
After a short time down for some remodeling, the Los Alamitos McDonald’s restaurant will be reopening next week, according to…
Crawford Airfield – Seal Beach
Aviation has a long history in the Seal Beach area. When Phil Stanton imported most of the 1915 San Francisco’s…
Early Mexican workers in Los Alamitos
Source: The Home missionary: Volumes 74-76 – Page 198 (1902) The Home Missionary was the annual publication of the Congregational…
Biography: Frank Capitain, architect of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory & town
18 JUN 1897 – Land of Sunshine: A Magazine of California and the Southwest. p42- One of the busiest men…
1926-1943 – After the Sugar – The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory and Dr. Ross
The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory was operated for its original purpose for a little over 20 years – from…
Shark fishing in Alamitos Bay – 1913
Here is an early description of Alamitos Bay from Out West magazine, Charles Lummis booster-istic magazine which played a significant…
Shark fishing in Alamitos Bay – 1913
Here is an early description of Alamitos Bay from Out West magazine, Charles Lummis booster-istic magazine which played a significant…
Seal Beach Founders Day – the media onslaught continues
The photograph to the left goes to show that Main Street in Seal Beach has changed quite a bit over…
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…
Dances, Parades, games and rides planned for Seal Beach’s 95th birthday bash
Seal Beach has a party coming up — and while to our minds maybe it should officially be called Incorporation…