Browse archives: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Published on 01/05/1998 All articles from this issue

Pages of the Past

printer friendly version

25 years ago in the Town Crier

According to the Jan. 17, 1973, issue of the Town Crier, the Los Altos High School varsity basketball team had never finished less than third place in its division and 1972-73 was no exception. It was favored to top the national division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League in that season. The Knights were alone in first place after winning the first four league games.

To its benefit, the team was the tallest in the school's history with no less than four players above 6 feet 5 inches and one player at 6 feet 8 inches.

The deep freeze earlier in January 1973 left its mark on many plants, shrubs and trees that showed definitely by their appearance that they had been hard hit.

Torrential rains followed the freezing spell, and the Town Crier ran a picture of the footbridge over Adobe Creek at Shoup Park, almost completely submerged from the deluge of 3.5 inches of rain.

Kent S. Barber, the newly-elected president of the Los Altos Board of Realtors, was among those participating in an organization and installation meeting of the California Real Estate Association in San Francisco on January 11-13, 1973. He was installed as a state director of the 66,000-member association.

50 years ago in the Los Altos News

According to the Jan. 15, 1948, issue of the Los Altos News, incorporation of Los Altos, long and heatedly discussed in the local community, was reviewed again at the Los Altos Business Association's meeting on Jan. 12, 1948. It resulted in appointment of a committee instructed to secure information concerning the cost of preliminary work involved in such incorporation procedures.

The business group also indicated it favored reclassification of Main Street from Third to San Antonio, urging a change from residential to a business zoning. Excepted from the proposed zoning was the small tip of the triangle that the group felt would be better suited to a park-like entrance to downtown.

The group, which had gone on record as favoring construction of a theater in Los Altos, appointed a committee to ascertain what was delaying erection of the playhouse on Main Street.

Thirty-eight pupils from Los Altos Grammar School were judged winners in 1947's annual essay contest sponsored by the Latham Foundation for Promotion of Humane Education, based in San Francisco. Two of the pupils, Roberta Parry and Kathryn Burkhart, were jointly awarded the foundation's supreme prize of $50 for their essays on humane living.

- Ellen Shaw of the Los Altos History House Association