Nov. 1900 – Beet Sugar Gazette — Clarks file suit against Bixby over sugar factory sewage right of way

The Beet Sugar Gazette was a monthly publication covering the entire sugar beet industry around the world.  With offices in Chicago, it was published on the 5th day of each month.  Each month its pages featured articles on sugar beet cultivation and the sugar manufacturing process, and reports from correspondents in sugar producing areas or … Read more

Huguette Clark – daughter of Los Alamitos founder, dies at 104

On May 24,  2011, Huguette Clark, one of the world’s richest women and subject of many TV reports last fall,  died at the age of 104. Worth over an estimated half billion dollars, she grew up in New York’s Gilded Age, among the Guggenheims, Astors, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts.  When she died, she hadn’t been seen … Read more

July 1897 – Anaheim Gazette coverage of the new Los Alamitos Sugar Factory

The Anaheim Gazette was the major newspaper covering Orange County from the county’s formation through the first two decades of the 20th Century.  Copies of it are available on microfilm at the Anaheim Historical Library.  Much of the paper’s coverage of sugar beet news was reprinted in beet industry publications such as the Louisiana Planter. … Read more

Sweet Old Days in Los Alamitos

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

Sweet Old Days in Los Alamitos

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