Past Tense: March 22, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
Fern Valley residents were about to vote on a $250,000 bond issue to purchase the Fern Valley Mutual Water...
Past Tense: March 15, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
Fire quickly burned more than an acre on the mountainside below Suicide Rock. The snow was too deep to allow...
Past Tense: March 8, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
The proprietor of Thorn’s General Store, Pine Cove, advertised, “I’ll sell you stuff if you’ll hunt me up. It’s too...
Readers Write: To Barry J. Fox
Editor:
To the gentleman who requested chiropractors cover veterans in Idyllwild: When I read your letter in the Town Crier asking chiropractors to join the...
Past Tense: March 1, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
With the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs about to visit the Hill, local folk were urged to look...
Past Tense: February 22, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
For the PTA Founders’ Day tea, mothers were asked to bring pennies to match their age. They were permitted, however,...
Past Tense: February 15, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
Saturday was designated Idyllwild Day at the County Fair and Date Festival. Idyllwild had a booth containing a chukker partridge...
Past Tense: February 8, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
The two-man Forest Service staff, Ranger Don Bauer and Fire Control Assistant Bill Hersh, hiked six hours to Martinez Mountain...
Past Tense: Feb. 1, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
The Town Crier reported that lots of kids in town had chicken pox.
65 years ago - 1953
William Courtney, a Los...
Past Tense: January 25, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
Idyllwild’s barber Bert Playle moved away, leaving local men mourning. There were still three beauty operators to take care of...