Past Tense: September 10, 2015
65 years ago - 1950
A new attraction at the Labor Day carnival was Zeke’s hayride. A team of six horses pulled the wagon and...
Past Tense: March 21, 2013
65 years ago - 1948
Fern Valley residents were about to vote on a $250,000 bond issue to purchase the Fern Valley Mutual Water System.
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Past Tense: October 14, 2021
60 years ago - 1961Bonnar Blong, local game manager, reported the extreme drought had caused a drastic drop in the number of...
Past Tense: July 27, 2017
65 years ago - 1952
Capt. Carmen Durr-ance, international president of NIP, was on the Hill. NIP stands for Not Important People. The organization was...
Past Tense
75 years ago - 1948 “Ma’s New Husband,” the first production of the Mountain Players, was a...
Past Tense: April 13, 2017
70 years ago - 1947
The U.S. Forest Service reported the insect situation had become critical in the Idyllwild area. Warm weather added another hatch...
Past Tense: March 21, 2019
Snow figures resembling a Mutt-’n’-Jeff mouse combination adorned the home of the Gary Johnsons in Pine Cove in February 1976 after...
Past Tense: January 20, 2022
75 years ago - 1947There were 300 families living year-round in the area.• • •Art Morris and his county crew were busy...
Past Tense: August 26, 2021
65 years ago - 1956Tahquitz Pines dedicated the new stone entrance archway at a ceremony attended by more than 100 people.
Past Tense: Dec. 6, 2012
65 years ago - 1947
Deputy Max Jensen, assigned to the mountains by the Sheriff’s Department, reported that during the previous six months he had...