La Cañada History: JPL scientists take their first 3-D look at solar storms
Ten Years Ago
For the first time, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in April 2007 got a look at images of the sun in three dimensions. During a demonstration held at JPL, scientists and guests donned 3-D glasses and watched as solar storms appeared to erupt toward them. “To say we are excited is an understatement,” said one of the co-investigators for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), the spacecraft that took images of the sun from different angles. The new views, it was reported, would improve the ability to predict solar weather, which has effects on Earth.
Twenty Years Ago
An otherwise quiet April morning on Commonwealth Avenue was interrupted when four young men entered a home, tied up the startled housekeeper and ransacked the property before making a clean getaway.
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Thirty Years Ago
A new retail shopping center for the northwest corner of Foothill Boulevard and Oakwood Avenue (where Penguin’s and Jersey Mike’s franchises, among other businesses, operate today) was approved by the La Cañada Flintridge Planning Commission. The center, on Century Federal Savings property, was originally anchored by a junior-size Thrifty Drug Store.
Forty Years Ago
A member of a prominent La Cañada pioneer family, Julia Murray Knight, who moved to the Knight Ranch when she married T. Fenton Knight in 1912, passed away at the age of 88. Her husband, whose family established the ranch in the late 1880s, was elected to the La Cañada school board in 1921 and to the state Assembly in 1939. Julia’s mother, Joanna Murray, founded the La Cañada chapter of the American Red Cross and her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Knight, established the La Cañada Thursday Club.
Fifty Years Ago
A county fair atmosphere prevailed on the grounds of Flintridge Riding Club, when the 46th annual Children’s Horse Show took place in 1967. It was the 17th year the event had been sponsored by the Flintridge La Cañada Guild of Huntington Memorial Hospital.
Sixty Years Ago
A 3-year-old La Cañada girl, Kathy Moore, was lost for five hours in the Monument Valley area of Utah where four local families were camping together during their spring vacation. A search was mounted and Kathy was found by a Navajo guide who picked up her trail and found her walking six miles from the Moore family’s campsite. She was unhurt and in good spirits, although it was reported she was skeptical of the guide’s wish to have her return with him in the opposite direction from which she had been traveling.
Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.
