Past Tense: April 18, 2013
65 years ago – 1948
The Town Crier reported that Editor Ernie Maxwell’s cat had five new kittens.
60 years ago – 1953
Sunset magazine featured an article about Idyllwild.
55 years ago – 1958
Actor David Niven stopped at Doro’s Market and visited for a while.
50 years ago – 1963
Five Orange County residents were killed when their Cessna Sky Hawk plane crashed in Anza Valley.
45 years ago – 1968
The U.S. Forest Service was directing logging operations on Santa Rosa Mountain to remove pines vulnerable to insect attack.
40 years ago – 1973
Mountain creeks were running strong as the largest snowpack in 20 years melted.
35 years ago – 1978
Suzanne Somers, star of the television hit, “Three’s Company,” spent two days in Idyllwild filming “Jack and the Princess,” a CBS Movie of the Week.
30 years ago – 1983
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors directed its administrative, planning, road and legal staffs to initiate a feasibility study of reduced road widths, standards and more restrictive grades to reflect the special weather conditions, resort character and safety needs of the local communities.
25 years ago – 1988
Community leaders and county officials led a well-attended Town Hall meeting on the formation of a Hill Municipal Advisory Council.
20 years ago – 1993
The fourth-annual Earth Fair was scheduled to be at Town Hall.
15 years ago – 1998
The Idyllwild Mountain Community Patrol was honored by three off-Hill government agencies. Hemet Unified School District recognized the group for patrolling Idyllwild School after reports of a stalker. The City of Palm Desert and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors both gave an award for graffiti removal.
10 years ago – 2003
The U.S. Forest Service was considering closing the forest because of the threat of wildfire in the parched mountains. The Hill’s moisture levels had set an all-time low.
5 years ago – 2008
Marshall Hawkins, embarked on a trip to Bremen, Germany, to participate in an international conference on jazz as an ambassador of jazz.
1 year ago – 2012
A major fire destroyed the Fern Valley home of Idyllwild businessman Shane Stewart.
