Bonetto’s Feed and Fuel – A Landmark Business Anyone who grew up in our valley in the ‘50s and ‘60s is familiar with Bonetto’s Feed and Fuel. The store sat central in the Crescenta Valley, on the southwest corner of La Crescenta and Montrose avenues. A long rambling brick building ran west along Montrose Avenue, […]
The Race to Build Our Flood Control Channels – 1934 to 1938 (Much of what I write here can be found in the comprehensive book covering CV’s flood control, “The Great Crescenta Valley Flood” by Art Cobery.) We tend to overlook our flood control system. The deep square cement channels that cross under our streets […]
A Fan Says Good-bye to Vin Scully Three score and seven years ago the Dodgers brought forth a new radio broadcaster, educated at Fordham University and dedicated to the proposition that baseball is America’s national pastime. Eight years later the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and Southern California was introduced to Vin Scully, who […]
The Story Behind Fehlhaber-Houk Park On a busy Tujunga Canyon Boulevard, where heavy traffic grinds along between Sunland-Tujunga and the 210 Freeway, lies a small park, little noticed by the cars rushing by. It’s little used as well, as it is truly a “passive park” – no tennis courts, playground equipment, not even a dedicated […]
» By Adam SCHIFF This election season will be remembered for many reasons, but we may also end up recalling this election as the one where our democracy came under a sustained and coordinated attack by hackers determined to discredit our system. Americans of all political affiliations should be deeply concerned about this development, which […]
City Manager Starbird: Not My Fault Management On Tuesday evening, Sept. 13, I came before Glendale City Council to inform the public that former city manager Jim Starbird had filed a $1 million claim against the City. “Jim Starbird claims while pushing his wife in a wheelchair the chair hit an uplifted sidewalk, thrusting her […]
Cable TV Wars – The Story of Crescenta Valley Cable When we think of TV reception in the ‘50s and ‘60s, we think of “rabbit ears” on top of the TV set or of space-age looking antennas mounted on our roofs. Both these options often involved elaborate adjusting of the antennas depending on the location […]
Hillary versus Security I believe all professional persons, including heads of corporations, priests, doctors, lawyers and other negotiators who understand the imperative necessity for security and privacy in their fields, are surprised at the excuses Hillary Clinton provides to the American people to justify her complete lack of intelligence and concern for the safety of […]
Honoring One of Our Hometown Heroes Many know Jackie Robinson as a record-breaking second baseman, an influential advocate for civil rights, and a distinguished Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Famer, but few know he was a renowned Pasadena native who left a huge impact on his community and the nation as a whole. This year I […]
The First Wedding in the Valley On a May morning in 1887, high up among the sagebrush and rocks on the upper slopes of the Crescenta Valley, two young people from Indiana pledged their lives to each other in the first marriage ceremony in La Crescenta. The groom was Fred Foster, a young man from […]