Past Tense: November 24, 2022
75 years ago - 1947Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Carmen reminisced about the good old days in Idyllwild. They remembered Fern Valley as...
Past Tense: October 13, 2022
70 years ago - 1952Volunteers were busy finishing the interior of the Catholic Church in knotty pine.
65 years...
Past Tense: October 6, 2022
75 years ago - 1947Postmaster Harry Wendelken lamented, “There’s Idyllwilds all over the country, and all the mail for the other Idyllwilds...
Past Tense: September 29, 2022
70 years ago - 1952Extra game wardens were assigned to the mountains as deer season opened. A record crowd of hunters was...
Past Tense: September 8, 2022
65 years ago - 1957Pine Dell Estates was a new development in town, just below the village on National Forest Highway .
Past Tense: Sept. 1, 2022
75 years ago - 1947Fifty people gathered at Dutch Flat to witness the christening of a well for the Idyllwild Water Company....
Past Tense: August 25, 2022
75 years ago - 1947August rainfall was already 3.72 inches. Average for the whole month in recent years had been running 1.23...
Past Tense: August 18, 2022
75 years ago - 1947Idyllwild School faced a crisis. There wasn’t enough room to accommodate the anticipated enrollment of 125 kids.• •...
Past Tense: August 11, 2022
75 years ago - 1947Fern Valley Garage advertised “Expert Repair Service, Greeting Cards, Gift Wrappings.”• • •Electric power was on its way...
Past Tense: August 4, 2022
75 years ago - 1947A new telephone service was inaugurated, offering six trunk lines to Hemet.
70 years ago...