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Published on 05/05/1999 All articles from this issue

Pages of the Past

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50 years ago in Los Altos

Citizens opposed a plan to unify Mountain View and Los Altos School districts. Elementary school enrollment was 1070.

On May 10, Charles Helser, president, accepted an international charter on behalf of the Los Altos Rotary Club. The ceremony was held at the Los Altos Golf & Country Club.

More than 750 children participated in the second annual Kiwanis Pet Parade. One week later, a crowd of 2,000 lined the sidewalks to see the Fireman's Fiesta Parade, a celebration of the Forty-Niner Centennial Celebration, held at Shangri-La Resort on Moody Road in Los Altos Hills.

The "Los Altos" Theater on Main Street held its grand opening at 6 p.m. on May 18. The owner promised a new high in entertainment and the last word in comfort and beauty. The opening film feature was, "Mother is a Freshman," with Loretta Young and Van Johnson. The Saturday matinee program included 12 cartoons. Children's admission was 20 cents and general admission was 74 cents.

25 years ago in Los Altos

The Board of Trustees of the Los Altos School District prohibited corporal punishment that had been previously permitted by principals or vice principals "with the hand or an appropriate paddle."

Sixty acres of oak-studded open land was bulldozed in Los Altos Hills to make way for 41 home sites in Matadero Oaks. The town had set no limit on the number of trees the developer could cut.

A Los Altos Hills resident, upset because a neighbor's dog had attacked his children's goats, displayed the goat ears to members of the town council to dramatize the problem.

A council vote approved $20,000 for Los Altos Hills Town Hall remodeling. Bruce Lawson took council members through the existing building and described it as "nothing but a piece of junk." Back files of building records were being stored in cardboard boxes in the men's restroom.

A frog owned by Lee Guidici of Los Altos won first place honors on May 19 in Angels Camp at the Calavaras Frog Jumping Contest, with a jump of 18 feet, 3 inches.

Los Altos Mayor Ruth Koehler opened the annual Kiwanis 27th Los Altos Pet parade and declared it "the biggest yet."

A Spanish-style home was divided into three pieces and moved by the owner on trucks from 226 West Edith Ave., to make way for condominiums.

A petition was circulated by 29 residents of Deodora Drive asking for funds to construct a noise barrier wall from St. Joseph Avenue, south on the Foothill Expressway.

- Adapted by Donna Shoemaker for Los Altos History House of Los Altos.