The 1971 Earthquake A reader reminded me that the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake (sometimes called the San Fernando Earthquake) had come and gone a few days ago. I have written about it in the past, but a revisit is always appropriate. The fault that caused the quake was the Sierra Madre Fault, […]
The Pioneers of My Street My wife and I have been very fortunate to live here in the Crescenta Valley. As historians of the valley’s past, we are even more fortunate to live in a century-old house. We even got to meet the woman who grew up in our house in the ’20s and hear […]
Protecting Our Children I know too many in our community are continuing to suffer from the economic, psychological and physical health issues brought on by the pandemic. Every single day my office is working to address the needs of people on unemployment, helping constituents seeking information or assistance with vaccinations, and addressing the myriad other […]
Presentation Planned at Next Town Council Meeting First off, on behalf of the CV Town Council and the residents of our unincorporated area of Los Angeles County here in La Crescenta and Montrose, I want to thank the LA County Fire Dept., the Dept. of Public Works and frontline health care workers in Los Angeles […]
‘Dam’ Surprise It’s surprising that there’s a proposal to build a national memorial to the St. Francis Dam. The Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power has spent a lot of time and a bunch of money to erase every vestige of the dam. You can’t see any remnant of the dam now. Why? Because they were embarrassed […]
Let’s run through each of our schools briefly in the chronological order they were built. (Multiple sources list different dates, so forgive any errors.) La Crescenta Elementary (1886) – La Crescenta’s founder, Dr. Benjamin Briggs, was trying to establish a town but he needed a school to attract settlers. He donated a lot on the […]
CV Housewives Beat Up Old Lady in 1956 In a twist on the reality show “The Real Housewives of (insert city here)” a group of “real housewives of La Crescenta” beat and robbed an old lady in Glendale then created a gossipy media frenzy. It was 1956 (i.e. “the good old days”) and three over-the-hill […]
Election Fraud Could Be Real In response to Jackie Gish’s letter in the CV Weekly on Jan. 21: here is my experience with mail-in ballots. In 2007, after we retired, my wife and I registered for permanent absentee ballots because we expected to travel a lot. Because the 2020 election was so important my wife […]
Unity In The Community I would be lying if I said the upheaval that took place in our country over the last year did not affect me. It did – in a big way. What a tumultuous year. I want so badly to stand on top of Mt. Lukens and scream about all the injustices, […]
More Local Movie Filming Locations I’ve written several columns about the many films that have been shot in our community over the years, most of which were in Montrose or at the La Crescenta Motel. But recently I was introduced to a short video by Sunland-Tujunga based filmmaker Craig Durst. He presents scenes from famous […]