I Can See Clearly Now Sometimes I feel like the Burgess Meredith character in the “Twilight Zone” television series. In the episode “Time Enough at Last,” Henry Bemis just wants to be alone, away from all distractions, to read his pile of books. When the end of the world comes and he is the […]
Jim Huntington came to La Cañada in about 1914. He paid $90 for a building to open a blacksmith business. (That building is now an appliance store at 1428 Foothill Blvd.) Huntington embarked on a career in metalwork that brought him nationwide fame. Huntington Iron Works’ products in the form of iron gates and fences […]
The Montrose Sign Since the Montrose business district became the Montrose Shopping Park in 1967, there has been a sign at each entrance welcoming shoppers. At the intersections of Honolulu Avenue and Verdugo Road on the east, and Honolulu and Las Palmas Avenue on the west, a curving monument sign proclaims “Montrose Shopping Park” along […]
It’s that time of year again when I ask my friends and family to help me host our annual Christmas Party for people with disabilities. Our family has been holding this event for 44 years and a couple of our guests have been coming almost that long, all of them from Tierra Del Sol – […]
Memories of Jack Laughrey The Laughrey family were early residents of the valley, opening a hardware store on La Crescenta Avenue in the 1920s. They moved the store to Foothill Boulevard and lived beneath the store. Later they were early residents of Mountain Oaks. A news article was written about Jack Laughrey back in […]
Giving Thanks It’s that time of year when we give thanks, when we look back and reflect. But this year, like most recent years in this decade, feels precarious. Israel and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Artsakh and Armenia: all of these conflicts are far away. They’re also affecting us right here at home. I […]
The Development of the Montrose Shopping Park The Montrose Shopping Park is really something special. Its mature trees make shopping pleasant all year round and its many seating areas make enjoyable spots for eating an ice cream cone or enjoying a coffee. It’s a pedestrian’s paradise, a great place to take a stroll. The dominance […]
Holidays Don’t Offer Break for CVTC As the holiday season is upon us, the Crescenta Valley Town Council is continuing to work hard on issues that matter most to the community. We would first like to thank the community for attending our annual pancake breakfast last month. We had a record turnout! This is the […]
March of Dimes Celebrity Parade 1954 Last week I wrote about the origin of the March of Dimes. It was a grassroots fundraising effort to find the vaccine for the disease of polio. Polio was a scourge in the early and middle part of the last century. It was a disease that paralyzed the muscles […]
No Room for Hate As a GUSD parent and Glendale resident I’ve been upset to witness a small group of apparent anti-public school extremists causing chaos at GUSD school board meetings and directing persistent harassment campaigns against individual teachers, administrators and members of our LGBTQ+ community. On Thursday (Oct. 26) some of these same individuals, […]