10-20-30 Years Ago

Ten Years Ago: For the first time in 13 years the La Cañada High School varsity football team won the Rio Hondo League championship after defeating Monrovia to finish the year with 9 wins and 1 loss (5-0 in league).

Twenty Years Ago

U.S. Forest Service officials and La Cañada civic leaders gathered on Angeles Crest Highway just north of the city boundary to dedicate 64 miles of the road as “Forest Service Angeles Crest Scenic Byway.”

Thirty Years Ago

Winds measuring as high as 99 miles per hour ripped through La Cañada Flintridge, leaving behind uprooted trees, shredded signs and downed power lines. La Cañada Flintridge Country Club and Descanso Gardens reported heavy damage to their properties.

Forty Years Ago

The La Cañada school board voted 4-1 to allow LCHS senior to have off-campus lunch privileges, on a trial basis, beginning in January 1971 on two designated days per week. To qualify, students had to have permission from their parents and the school principal.

Fifty Years Ago

Building at La Cañada Junior High, on Cornishon Avenue at Foothill Boulevard, was in full swing as its new, circular brick library structure and its large auditorium took shape