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    Past Tense: August 7, 2014

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    65 years ago – 1949 The Women’s Guild of the Community Presbyterian Church was raising money via bake sales for a new roof for the manse.   60 years ago – 1954 Barbara Wilson was honored at a community bridal shower at the Idyllwild Inn. Her marriage to Bud Hunt was scheduled for October.  …

  • Past Tense: Feb. 26, 2015

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    65 years ago – 1950 Eleanor Johnson’s long-cherished project of beautifying Village Circle got underway. 60 years ago – 1955 Ted Belden filed a patent on the special design for the Pinecraft “Idyllwild Chair.” It was a fitted-to-size chair proportioned to small, average or big people. 55 years ago – 1960 The Christian Science Society,…

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    Past Tense: September 2, 2021

    ByIdyllwild Town Crier Reading Time: 3 minutes

    65 years ago – 1956Idyllwild School registered 90 youngsters in kindergarten to seventh grades. The prior week, 290 students attended the first day of the new school year. 60 years ago – 1961Tahquitz Lake Estates announced the opening of a tract on the Dutch Flat property and near Foster Lake. Lots were priced at $1,965….

  • Past Tense: November 13, 2014

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    65 years ago – 1949 A group of volunteer searchers plucked a lost deer hunter out of the rugged North Fork canyon just as he was about to spend his second night in freezing weather without food.   60 years ago – 1954 The Izaak Walton League honored its Woodsmans Breakfast crew for a year…

  • Past Tense: December 8, 2016

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    60 years ago – 1956  The newly organized Pine Cove County Water District planned to ask voters to approve a $110,000 bond issue to purchase facilities and make improvements. 55 years ago – 1961  Town Crier interviewed Victoria Brooke, daughter of Charles and Genoveva Thomas, the first white settlers in the mountains. Mrs. Brooke recalled…