La Cañada History: Snowstorm blankets La Cañada in white
Ten Years Ago
As work began to prepare the property for construction of the Town Center, some of the empty houses still standing on lots that had been amassed by La Cañada Properties for the project were set on fire for a Los Angeles County Fire Department training exercise. Also, several mature trees on the land were dug up and placed in temporary boxes until they could be transplanted elsewhere on the acreage once the center’s buildings were completed.
Twenty Years Ago
Joan Feehan, then mayor pro-tem of La Cañada Flintridge, read a statement during a meeting of the City Council supporting Neighborhood Watch programs. Feehan stated her home had been burglarized while she was at the property alone one Monday morning, working in the garden. While her attention was focused on trimming some vegetation, someone slipped into her home through her unlocked back door, went to the master bedroom and stole all of Feehan’s fine jewelry. “My advice to the community is to lock your door always,” she said. “It never occurred to me to lock the door while I was in the yard.”
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Thirty Years Ago
As the Southland was experiencing an extended dry spell, Descanso Gardens in the winter of 1987 offered a series of classes called “A Xeriscape Symposium” to teach locals how to conserve water through creative landscaping.
Forty Years Ago
A sandwich shop called the Brown Bag opened near the Bow-Tie Cleaners in the 400 block of Foothill Boulevard. Operated as a joint venture by three La Cañada women — Linda Macedo, Jodi Snyder and Ingrid Flanders — the shop offered salads, soups and sandwiches, all of which were packaged in brown bags for carryout customers.
Fifty Years Ago
La Cañada Unified School District officials said a vacation during the week immediately prior to Easter, long a tradition in the Foothills where it was called “Easter vacation,” would not be observed in 1967. Instead, the district announced it would experiment with a spring recess plan that was “more natural” for providing a study break. That year, the newly scheduled break would be held the second week after Easter. The move had been originally requested by the La Cañada Ministerial Assn., as it was their belief that the religious observation of Good Friday and Easter would be “better received by students if they were in town and not away on vacation.”
Sixty Years Ago
A Sunday morning snowstorm covered La Cañada with a layer of the white stuff on the last weekend of January 1957.
Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.
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