The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. The Local History Room of the Fullerton Public Library has microfilm from the Fullerton Tribune newspaper stretching back to 1893. I am in the process of reading over the microfilm, year by year, to get…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. “Someday, perhaps not long from now, the inhabitants of a hotter, more dangerous and biologically diminished planet than the one on which I lived may wonder what you and I were thinking, or whether we…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. The Local History Room of the Fullerton Public Library has microfilm from the Fullerton Tribune newspaper stretching back to 1893. I am in the process of reading over the microfilm, year by year, to get…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. The Local History Room of the Fullerton Public Library has microfilm from the Fullerton Tribune newspaper stretching back to 1893. I am in the process of reading over the microfilm, year by year, to get…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. The Local History Room of the Fullerton Public Library has microfilm from the Fullerton Tribune newspaper stretching back to 1893. I am in the process of reading over the microfilm, year by year, to get…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Stanley Porter was interviewed by Dee Larson in 1986 for the CSUF Oral History Program. His grandfather Benjamin Franklin Porter was born in Tennessee, moved to Texas as a young man, and in 1870 came…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Jennie Reyes and her husband John owned a Mexican restaurant called La Perla on Truslow Avenue in Fullerton (in what she called the barrio) for nearly thirty years, from the 1940s to the 1970s. Reyes…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. “It was built on 350 acres in the gently sloping hills of the city’s northwest corner. With its broad lawns and stands of towering trees, the sprawling Hughes Aircraft aerospace complex looks more like a…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. “This is an era of town building in Southern California, and it is proper that it should be so, for the people are coming to us from the East and from the North and from…