Past Tense: January 18, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
Idyllwild was deciding if it should join the Hemet School District.
65 years ago - 1953
Martin Aguirre was in charge of...
Past Tense: January 11, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
At the Idyllwild Dairy, Liz, a 7-year-old Guernsey, hit a maximum yield of 11 gallons of milk per day.
65 years...
Past Tense: January 4, 2018
70 years ago - 1948
A Christmas fire at the dump caught many firemen in their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. Swede Pitt tramped among the the burning...
Past Tense: December 28, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
A snowfall of 12 to 24 inches was believed attributable to dry ice dropped from a plane sent by Hemet...
Past Tense: December 21, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
Everyone was invited to the first Christmas party in Town Hall. Ernie Maxwell was master-of-ceremonies and Charles Kretsinger led the...
Past Tense: December 14, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
November had been a cold month with a low of 14 degrees. Joe McGaugh reported 10 degrees in his cow...
Past Tense: December 7, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
Deputy Max Jensen, assigned to the mountains by the Sheriff’s Department, reported that during the previous six months, he had...
Past Tense: November 30, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
Game Warden Cliff Donham was double-crossed by the very squirrels he protected. When investigating his car’s lack of power, it...
Past Tense: November 23, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Carmen reminisced about the good old days in Idyllwild. They remembered Fern Valley as a fern-filled...
Past Tense: November 16, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
“Hurricane Force Winds Leave Idyllwild in a Shamble,” screamed the Town Crier’s page-one headline. The George Thomas Cedar, oldest tree...