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Published on 02/09/1998 All articles from this issue

Pages of the Past

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25 years ago in the Town Crier

As reported in the Feb. 21, 1973, issue of the Town Crier, St. Simon's varsity team, with a single one-point loss in 14 league games, won its fifth straight South Peninsula Catholic Athletic League championship. Over its past five seasons, the Saints had won 65 league games and lost just three.

In the second year of donkey basketball at Awalt High School, the hard-riding faculty went down in defeat to the school's senior squad. Amidst all the falling off of burros, the seniors managed to sink 34 points while the faculty logged a mere 30.

Los Altos High School's championship chess team returned from the 1973 Western high school chess championship tournament in Los Angeles, winners of three trophies. They had tied for first place in the team championship division and were entitled to more than $150 in expense money if they entered the national high school chess tournament in Chicago.

The 20th anniversary of St. Joseph's School in Mountain View was observed at a dinner dance on Feb. 24, 1973. The school had opened after the purchase of the Zellerbach estate on Miramonte Avenue (site of today's St. Francis High School). After two years, St. Joseph moved to 1170 Miramonte Ave.

50 years ago in the Los Altos News

According to the Feb. 19, 1948, issue of the Los Altos News, a contract for the construction of a new firehouse at the corner of State and Third streets was awarded to N. A. Lamb, general contractor. Completion was set for Aug. 15.

The winning bid was $39,329 for construction of a new structure designed by architect Lawrence Gentry of Los Altos. The bidding contractors were high in their praise for the excellence of the plans proposed by Gentry.

The Los Altos American Legion Post honored the memory of George Washington in a program open to the public that featured Darwin Teilhet, well-known writer and lecturer. Teilhet described the Revolutionary War and its effects on Washington.

A goal of $150 was set for Los Altos as its quota of the donation of $3,000 from the Palo Alto area toward paying the expense of the stop-over in Palo Alto on March 17, 1948, of the seven-car Freedom Train. Sponsored by the American Heritage Foundation, the Freedom Train housed more than 100 of the nation's most prized historical documents. The train traveled more than 33,000 miles, visited 300 communities and was on the road for a year.

- Ellen Shaw of the Loss Altos History House Association