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 -...