The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. The Fullerton Observer newspaper was formed in 1978 by Ralph and Natalie Kennedy and friends to provide a more progressive counterbalance to the more conservative Fullerton News-Tribune and Orange County Register. The Fullerton Public Library…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. The Fullerton Observer newspaper was formed in 1978 by Ralph and Natalie Kennedy and friends to provide a more progressive counterbalance to the more conservative Fullerton News-Tribune and Orange County Register. The Fullerton Public Library…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Richard “Dick” Ackerman was interviewed in 2018 by Abby Waldrop for the CSUF Oral History Program “Orange County Politics Project.” Here is a summary of what I learned from this interview. Ackerman was born in…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Sue Tsuda was interviewed by Scherly Virgill in 2016 for a CSUF Oral History Program project entitled “Women, Politics, and Activism since Suffrage.” Here is a brief bio of Tsuda, based on this interview. She…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. For this series, I compare a historic photo of Fullerton with a contemporary one from approximately the same angle. The first photo below is of a Craftsman-style bungalow house built by Dallison Smith Linebarger at…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. For this series, I compare a historic photo of Fullerton with a contemporary one from approximately the same angle. The first photo below is of the Southern Counties Gas Company building on Wilshire Avenue next…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. This mini-biography is based on various articles appearing in the Fullerton News-Tribune from 1893-1944. Dr. George C. Clark was born in Chambersburg, Ohio in 1863. After completing his studies in homeopathic medicine at Hahnemann Medical…

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 a sense of what…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Dallison Smith Linebarger was born in Oregon in 1862. When he was a child his family moved to California, and he was raised in  Ventura County. In 1899 he moved to Fullerton, and bought the…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. “Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in…