Cal Poly Pomona’s CLA tower is in mid-demolition. We had a news article about it last spring, but now I take a whack at it (much like a wrecking ball?) in my Wednesday column. Gee, a Pomona column. Just like the old days.
Category Archives: Around Pomona
Column: Highlights from the fair, and don’t hold the onions
In an annual ritual, I recount a few highlights, lowlights and observations from this year’s LA County Fair, which ends Monday, in my Sunday column.
Column: A century of setting the ice cream bar high
The LA County Fair’s only direct link to its 1922 start: MacPherson’s Ice Cream, which still has a stand a century later. Its fourth-generation owner and I talk about its history (and resolve a mystery plaguing me for 20 years). It’s the subject of my Friday column.
Column: What was the 1922 LA County Fair like? It was tents
This being the Los Angeles County Fair’s centennial, you might be wondering what the 1922 fair was like. I do my best to describe it based on newspaper stories, and make a few jokes about it too, in my Wednesday column.
Column: Livestock trots back to fair after 15 years
Livestock competition at the LA County Fair ended in 2007. But now it’s back. (The fair’s centennial motto is, after all, “Back to Our Roots.”) I find out what it’s all about, and see some sheep, for my Friday column.
Column: At 100, fair looks back and looks forward
I preview the LA County Fair, which starts Thursday (can you believe it?) as the event shifts to cooler May from blistering September for its 100th anniversary. The theme: “Back to Our Roots.” Are you going? It’s the subject of my Wednesday column.
Column: Make some noise for these silent movies
Here’s your chance to see “City Lights” and “Blood and Sand” with organ accompaniment. Also: the Pomona Concert Band’s 75th anniversary concert is Sunday, with me as emcee, and more about comics, including Avengers #101, all in my Friday column.
Column: 1960s Lytton Savings in Pomona draws fresh interest
A former savings and loan in downtown Pomona, and its towering pole sign, is the subject of my Wednesday column. This had seemed worthy of a “brIEfly” paragraph at the end of a column when I made an inquiry for information, but the idea expanded, as ideas sometimes do.
Column: Step right up! Fairplex donates archive to Cal Poly
Nearly a century of history — photos, news clippings, prize ribbons, brochures, cookbooks and more — from the LA County Fair has been donated to the University Library at Cal Poly Pomona for preservation. It’s 200 boxes and counting. I take a quick look for my Sunday column.
Column: Season’s greetings as Concert Band returns after 2 years
For my Christmas Eve column, I write about the holiday concert by the Pomona Concert Band from Sunday, the one at which I emceed for the first time (tingle!). If I’m any judge, a pleasant time was had by all. Also: the LA 101 restaurant list goes back to snubbing the IE, I ask readers to tell me a hope they hold for 2022 and Redlands is buying an unusual building for its new police HQ: a vacant Kmart.