An array of vintage (so to speak) labels from local wineries are on display in the Cal Poly Pomona special collections room, Room 4434, of the University Library. A detail of my favorite is below. “To dream the impossible dream…”
Category Archives: Around the Inland Valley
Column: In 1969, day after day of rain flooded streets, homes
It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1969 storms that flooded Cucamonga and wreaked havoc throughout the region. I look back in Friday’s column. I hope I didn’t get anything wrong, but may well have, as a good overview article about the scope of the damage was hard to find in the limited time I had. If you lived through it, what do you remember?
Column: On heels of demise, Golden Spur rustles up new use
Every time I’ve driven past Golden Spur steakhouse in Glendora, it looked closed, but that’s only because I’ve only ever driven past in the morning on my way to Donut Man. Now, though, Golden Spur really is closed, after a mere 100 years.
Glendora is a little outside the Bulletin’s coverage and delivery area, but since the news hadn’t made the papers, apparently, and surely many of you have likewise driven past or even eaten there in the past century, I phoned City Hall to inquire about the property and learned a new use has already been approved. So, all that makes up Wednesday’s column — plus a Culture Corner and a Valley Vignette for good measure.
The Avoiding Regret blog has a fond, amusing post about the restaurant.
Column: Wiping slate clean for 2019 might involve actual napkin
For a second and final column of gleanings from the columnist’s desk, I summarize a very long handwritten letter from a reader, lightly mock a glowing 1926 newspaper article about the wonders of Pomona — and transcribe some notes from a restaurant napkin. That’s my Sunday column.
Column: A fan in Japan politely drops him a line
In an annual ritual, I clean my desk to start the new year and get a column, or possibly two, out of it. This year’s version, my Friday column, begins with an admiring letter from a reader across the Pacific. No, she wasn’t complaining that her newspaper was wet.
Column: Getting a vintage Ontario P.O. box could be a red-letter day
I wrote my latest column New Year’s Eve, but it’s appearing the day after New Year’s. Is it my last column of 2018 or my first of 2019? Probably the latter. Anyway, it’s an assortment of items, stuff that’s been hanging around waiting to be written or already written and waiting to run, and it makes up Wednesday’s column.
Column: Counting down 2018’s most unusual local news
What were the 10 strangest Inland Valley news stories of the year? I count down my picks in Sunday’s column — the last of the year.
Column: District elections, voters shake up Chino, Pomona, Upland
Local election results still aren’t completely settled, but I take a look at the results we have, most of which aren’t going to change, and highlight the most interesting in Sunday’s column.
Column: Monorails, bowling and meeting the Brady Bunch
Sunday’s column talks about the local references in Charles Phoenix’s travelogue-style book “Addicted to Americana,” then updates you on the Montclair pedestrian law and more.
Column: ‘Frenzied’ crowds greeted RFK in 1968
On May 20, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy campaigned in Pomona and Ontario. He visited Fontana on May 29. I delve into those visits for Wednesday’s history-drenched column. Above, Kennedy shakes hands on the Pomona Mall; photo taken from the Claremont Courier’s bound volumes.