Ten Years Ago
In mid-March 2001, liquidation sales began at Super Crown bookstores across the nation, including La Cañada Flintridge. The company announced it expected to complete its “Going Out of Business Sale” events within 12 weeks.
Twenty Years Ago
A man reported that his ruby and diamond ring, valued at $23,465, disappeared from the men’s locker room at La Cañada Flintridge Country Club while he was showering.
Thirty Years Ago
Officials from the La Cañada Flintridge City Council and LCF Chamber of Commerce were invited to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the completion of the 210 Freeway through the Foothills. The event, held on the Sunland Boulevard overcrossing of the freeway on April 3, 1981, celebrated the opening of the $38-million stretch that runs from Sunland Boulevard to Paxton Street.
Forty Years Ago
Members of the Service Gents Club at La Cañada High School aided one of their teachers, whose patio roof had collapsed in the Sylmar earthquake of February 1971. Mrs. Perrie Eidam, a resident of Valencia, was the grateful recipient of a rebuilt patio cover, courtesy of four teens and three adult supervisors of the Kiwanis-sponsored club.