La Cañada History: Foothills Mothers of Twins Club teems with members and activities in the 1950s

Ten Years Ago

Only two people filed by the deadline to run in the November 2007 election for two open seats on the La Cañada school board, forcing the cancellation of the vote and automatically seating incumbent Cindy Wilcox and a former school board member Jeanne Broberg, who had served prior to living abroad for a church mission.

Twenty Years Ago

After 21 years in La Cañada, the owner of Wesley’s Place, a popular produce store, called it quits. “I have lots of other things to do and I’m ready to do them,” said Wesley Bartera. Wesley’s, then located in the small shopping center anchored by Penguin’s, had earlier moved from its original site on the south side of the boulevard into a space previously occupied by a Thrifty Jr.

Thirty Years Ago

Four local women were proposed for membership in the previously all-male Kiwanis Club of La Cañada: Bobbie Thomas, Lorraine Breyer, Adrienne Morgan and Margaret Graf. “The women who will be joining Kiwanis clubs throughout the U.S. will certainly be more than just decorative figureheads, for they will help us achieve the club’s goals in community service,” said Dr. John Neville, who was then Kiwanis’ lieutenant governor of Division III.

Forty Years Ago

An extraordinary 18-hour August rainstorm dropped 2.07 inches on La Cañada Flintridge, bringing the season’s total to 16.25 inches. At the same time the previous year, the season’s total had been 11.52 inches. The daytime temperature during the unusual local weather event was 90 degrees.

Fifty Years Ago

A 14-home subdivision on 4 acres of land on the west side of Hillard Avenue, north of Foothill Boulevard, was approved by the Regional Planning Commission. The developer was J.L. Sorensen and Co.

Sixty Years Ago

The Mothers of Twins Club in the Foothills was a thriving organization in the late 1950s. Several of the members were La Cañada families, six of which posed for the cover of the Aug. 15, 1957, issue of the Valley Sun.

Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.