30 JUL 1959 – Los Al Residents “Fume at Outsiders” For attempt to Re-locate Air Base

30 JULY 1959 — (Enterprise, p.1) Residents fume at “Outsiders” For attempt to Re-locate Air Base. Local Los Al residents get upset at a committee of Westminster and Garden Grove landowners and developers, who start campaign to “relocate the Los Al Naval Air Station. The committee includes only one “local,” Westminster dairyman Ale Tuinhout, but … Read more

Obit: Perry Green (1895-1952), Los Alamitos realtor in 1920s, father of Lura Labourdette

This obituary is from the Long Beach Independent, May 15, 1952.  Perry Green came to Los Alamitos in the mid 1920s and became a local real estate agent.  Some Los Al histories list his name as “Rush” Green, but this obituary says Perry Green.  According to his daughter, Lura, one of the areas he promoted … Read more

Chamber of Commerce has long history in Los Alamitos

While not officially incorporated as a city until 1960, Los Alamitos has had a very definite presence since it was first laid out as a sugar factory town in 1896.  An early 1897 LA Times article listed the new community as one of the top three towns in Orange County — along with Anaheim and … Read more