La Cañada History: Local junior high student wears iconic ‘ears’ of a Disney Mousketeer

Ten Years Ago

Steve Martin, a 22-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, was setting up his new office at Station 82 in La Cañada, his headquarters as the new battalion chief for the area stretching from Altadena to Little Tujunga.

Twenty Years Ago

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a petition submitted by the grassroots Sagebrush Committee/Unite LCF to be allowed to leave Glendale Unified School District in order to join La Cañada Unified.

Thirty Years Ago

The La Cañada Flintridge City Council voted to allocate $350,000 to spruce up Foothill Boulevard between Ocean View Boulevard and La Cañada Plaza Road. Then-Mayor Ed Krause said he was of the opinion it was the right thing to do because businesses and residents of that westernmost section of the city were often treated “like stepchildren.”

Forty Years Ago

Several La Cañada business owners showed up at a meeting of the Planning Commission to express their concerns that adequate parking was not available in the city. It was a long-standing problem, they said, that forced small businesses to leave La Cañada after a short period of time to move their operations to communities where more parking spaces were offered.

Fifty Years Ago

The La Cañada High School Class of 1967, the school’s third graduating class, was the first to complete all four years at the campus, which had first opened its doors in the fall of 1963.

Sixty Years Ago

Tommy Cole, then a ninth-grader at La Cañada Junior High who lived with his parents on El Camino Corto, was enjoying his employment as one of Walt Disney’s Mousketeers on TV’s “Mickey Mouse Club.” He was discovered while playing the accordion with a Western band.

Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.