Two Former Residents Reminisce About Seal Beach 58 Years Ago
Sylvia Graves Conners and Lela Graves Tallman recall Seal Beach when it had one house at the McGarvin site and McGarvin Bay covered the area near Mary E Zoeter Elementary School. They describe early travel from California homesteads and life in 19th century Los Angeles County.
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Seal Beach
Sylvia Graves Conners
82Nd Avenue
Oakland
California
Lela Graves Tallman
Fifth Stret
Manhattan Beach
Tallman
Selma
Fresno County
Conners
Deer
McGarvin
McGarvin Bay
Anaheim Landing
Mary E. Zoeter
Highway 101
Rage Nine
L. To
Lela Groves Tallman
Geo McCrimmon Dies in Los Angeles After Long Career
George A. McCrimmon aged 76, retired railroad man and rancher of Seal Beach, died September 6 in Los Angeles from coronary sclerosis. Funeral September 9 at Pierce Brothers Mortuary, burial in Salt Lake City. Survived by widow Elizabeth Cannon McCrimmon, daughters Mrs. Martin P. Arnold and Mrs. Mary P. Ober, five grandchildren and one great grandson.
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George A. McCrimmon
Third Street
Seal Beach
Los Angeles
Pierce Brothers Mortuary
Salt Lake City
McCrimmon
Elizabeth Cannon McCrimmon
Martin P. Arnold
Montrose
Mary P. Ober
Alhambra
McCrimmons
Harry Wilson
Third St
Central Way
Mr. Wilson
Naples
Auto Crash Involving Three Cars On Bay Boulevard
Betty Lee Simmons 30 of Seal Beach drove a Cadillac south on Bay Boulevard when Gary Olsen 25 of Lakewood east on Coast Highway hit her. Olsen’s stop caused John Roger Alden to rear end Olsen’s car. Alden sustained multiple injuries and was taken to Community Hospital by Bowers Ambulance Service.
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Bay Boulevard
Pacific Coast Highway
Betty Lee Simmons
Fourteenth Street
Seal Beach
Gary Edwin Olsen
Lakewood
Olsen
John Roger Alden
Newport Beach
Alden
Bowers Ambulance Service
William Deeley
Thomas Terry
Civil Defense To Test Alert Signals In Statewide Drills
The Office of Civil Defense after the governors approval schedules statewide warning device tests at 11 a.m. on six dates including Sept 30 Oct 28 and Dec 30 in 1955 56. The drill uses an Alert siren one minute of sustained sound then a Take Cover signal one minute of wailing sound.
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Office of Civil Defense
Burger Dinner Open to Public Sat. at City Hall
The Seal Beach Junior Women's Club invites the public to a hamburger dinner at City Hall this Saturday from 5 to 7 PM. A gala event with baked beans relishes and pies. Tickets are 85 cents for adults and 50 cents for children, from club members.
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City Hall
Seal Beach
Betty Edwards
Ways and Means
Phyllis Jay
L.B
L. B
Moyra Lindstrom
Sea Food Spa worker enters Queen of Trades contest
Billy Jean Sara of 211 Tenth Street works at Sam's Sea Food Spa in Surfside and is among 75 entrants in the Queen of Trades contest sponsored by the 40 or 8 of the American Legion Auxiliary. Proceeds from a September 30 benefit dance support child welfare and nurses training at Santa Ana Legion Hall with Hy Seeman's Garden Grove orchestra.
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Billy Jean Sara
Tenth Street
Sam's Sea Food Spa
Surfside
Queen of Trades
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion of Auxiliary
Santa Ana Legion Hall
Hy Seeman
Garden Grove
Mexico
Diane Lind
Santa Ana
Chef de Gare
Cecil Cameron
Brea
Carl Proctor
Mary Robinson
San Clemente
William Cook
Los Alamitos
Two Cars Collide At Coast Highway Stop Light
Seal Beach police officers Benny Garza and Fred Lochamy responded to a collision at Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street last Saturday around 2 10 a.m. A car driven by Cail Edmond of 123812 East 22nd Street Los Angeles was stopped for a red light when Philip Poling from the United States Navy rear ended it. Ann Edmond was treated at Community Hospital and released.
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Seal Beach
Benny Garza
Fred Lochamy
Pacific Coast Highway
Main Street
Cail Edmond
East 22Nd Street
Los Angeles
Philip Poling
United States Navy
Edmon
Ann Edmond
33-Foot Fishing Boat Crashes Breakwater and Sinks
Burt Sherriff, of 140 D Street, loses his 33-foot Dotty Lee II after a breakwater crash near Long Beach. He survives by swimming to the concrete structure, while the vessel sinks at 5:30 a.m. during a Catalina return trip with mackerel and gear.
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Burt Sherriff
10Th Street
Dotty Lee
Long Beach
Sherriff
Catalina
Dotty Lee II
Long Point
Catalina Island
San Pedro
Burt
Car Crash Sends Local Woman to L B Hospital
Evelyn Tanner of 338 Main Street spent a week in Long Beach hospital with whiplash after a collision at Temple Avenue and Seventh Street. Her car stopped for a red light when another vehicle struck it. She was released Monday morning.
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Evelyn Tanner
Main Street
Evelyn
Temple Avenue
Seventh Street
Long Beach
After School Sports Set Up in Seal Beach District
Marx Dressler announced an after school program now available for students. Mary E. Zoeter School hosts supervised play 3:20 to 4:30 daily. J H McGaugh offers recreation Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 to 9 pm. Ormon Reynolds directs, with basketball volleyball badminton and tennis on offer. Tennis courts ready. lights to be turned on evenings.
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Mary E. Zoeter
J. H. McGaugh
Ormon Reynolds
Conn. Brother Visits Cancer Patient in California
Leland McKean of West Hartford, Connecticut visited his sister Eleanor Lane Owens, a cancer patient at California Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles, this week. The family's other visitor was Mrs. Fitzgerald from Arizona. The relatives traveled from far to reunite with Owens, who has not seen her brother for about 200 years.
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Eleanor Lane Owens
California Lutheran Hospital
Hope Street
Los Angeles
Leland McKean
West Hartford
Connecticut
McKean
Seal Beach
Dance date moved for Orange County club benefit
The Orange County Federation of Women's Club Junior Membership rescheduled the fundraiser to September 30 at Sunny Hill Recreation Center Fullerton from 9 PM to 1 AM. Proceeds fund a therapy pool for polio patients.
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Orange County Federation of Women’s Club
Sunny Hill Recreation Center
Fullerton
Hellman heirs oppose Seal Beach annexation plan
Seal Beach faces a clash as Hellman heirs publicly oppose annexation of their ranch and adjacent NAVSUP property. City attorney Buck notes a majority ownership is needed to proceed and signals possible impasse over the expansion.
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Seal Beach
Hellman
Robert Buck
Heilman
Ques
Rug Making Class Opens To Public In City Hall
Under sponsorship by the Seal Beach Woman's Club a rug making class has begun and is open to the public. The Monday morning sessions run from 9 to 12 in City Hall under an adult education plan. Teacher Evelyn Prentice announces Marion Harrison from Orange Coast College will instruct in hooked and braided rug making using common household fabrics.
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Seal Beach
Miss Harrison
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Portersville
United States
Tehachapi Mountains
Clearwater
Geo. McCrimmon
L.A
Civil Defense
Sea Food Spa
Coast Highway
L. B. Hospital
Conn
Eleanor Owens
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