Name/Title
Looking Backward in San DimasEntry/Object ID
H-080Scope and Content
Newspaper articles by J. Howard Hoover that can be found in the folder:
J.W. Hoover Doing Research on San Dimas History; Indians and the Padres; The Story of Rhoads Park (1911)
Sales Managers Made History - re Citrus Fruit Shipments (1912)
San Dimas Eagle Screamed the News - re San Dimas Newspapers.
Bank Accounts, Taxes and Hobos; What Worried a Hobo; Board of Trade Organized, 1909; Plan to Divide Los Angeles County; An
Attempt to Incorporate Failed.
The Santa Fe Railroad in San Dimas; T.E. Gore First Agent; New Santa Fe Station.
First Oranges Shipped in 1892; Lemon Growers Organize; The Big Freeze.
A Canyon is Named San Dimas; The First American Residents - Denis Clancy & his family; The Carrion Adobe.
The Teagues at Mud Springs.
The Boom Days; A Townsite is Named San Dimas; The Fights for Water.
Looking Backward - The Dalton Era; No Water for the Cattle (article is incomplete).
Among the First Along Bonita; Keating's the First Market; Cy's "Right" Market (Cy Wright); A Harness Maker Came to Town (E.W. Black); Cement Pipe (W.C. Sanders).
A Main Street Named Bonita; The Co-operative Store; The Hotel.
First National Bank Organized in 1903 by W.A. Johnstone.
Recollecting the Good Old Days - The Drinking Fountain (1913).--
includes story of an Arkansas Farmer's return to San Dimas.
The Way They Recollect It (story of Arnaksas Farmer continues).
First Families in a First House (continues with part 3 of the story of the Arkansas Farmer) (article is incomplete).
First Churches in San Dimas; Baptist Church; Methodist Church.
Found the Site for Puddingstone Dam.
Big Clean-up Day, May 30, 1911 (organized by H.E. Walker); Pacific Electric Came Into Town; San Dimas Rock Plant - Large Industry
Those Were Good Old Days at the Mud Springs School.
Genesis of the Citrus Area; The R.M. Teague Nurseries
When the Law Came to Town; Sheriff's Station Opened in 1927.
Lumber Boarded San Dimas (in 1904 J.S. Billheimer started the
San Dimas Lumber Company).
Thanks for Aid in "Looking Backward" (final Installlment in the series)