Past Tense: January 15, 2015

  65 years ago - 1950 One hundred cars were hung up on the icy Hurkey Creek grade. A spot check revealed that only one car...

Past Tense: January 8, 2015

65 years ago - 1950 The Idyllwilders Square Dance Club rested its dances until spring.   60 years ago - 1955 The village was crowded with people when...

Past Tense: December 25, 2014

65 years ago - 1949 The Kemp sawmill was sold to a Big Bear firm. All of its logging equipment was moved off the Hill.   60...

Past Tense: December 18, 2014

65 years ago - 1949 Word from Tahquitz Peak Lookout was that Jess Southwell’s Thanksgiving dinner consisted of three strips of bacon, a bowl of...

Past Tense: December 11, 2014

65 years ago - 1949 Postmaster Rita Patton reminded everyone that unsealed Christmas cards required 2 cents postage.   60 years ago - 1954 The big Christmas tree...

Past Tense: December 4, 2014

  65 years ago - 1949 Pete Hibbert passed away. He had been the lookout atop Tahquitz Peak for many years.   60 years ago - 1954 The American...

Past Tense: November 20, 2014

65 years ago - 1949 Work was progressing on the first building of the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, with Clarence Bischof as...

Past Tense: November 13, 2014

65 years ago - 1949 A group of volunteer searchers plucked a lost deer hunter out of the rugged North Fork canyon just as he...

Past Tense: November 6, 2014

65 years ago - 1949 The Town Crier was starting its fourth year publishing a newspaper on the Hill.   60 years ago - 1954 An open meeting...

Past Tense: October 30, 2014

65 years ago - 1949 Directors of the Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce voted to “reforest” the San Jacinto Mountains with Sequoia Giganteas.   60 years ago -...
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