Monday, December 31, 2018
FEB 16 Ontario Art Walk February
Join us at the Ontario Art Walk! FREE all age event. Come out and enjoy music, art, and food!
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Moving the Seaver House
The move of the 175-ton Seaver House from Pomona, where it was built in 1900, to Claremont, a distance of 10 miles, requiring 20 hours, a nine-man team and the cooperation of numerous utilities workers responsible for lifting or removing overhead wires, took place on the nights of Sept. 11 and 12, 1979. A remarkable feat of engineering, the relocation also provided an occasion witnessed, and remembered to this day, by many. Because of its size, the house was cut in two (and its roof removed). To minimize traffic congestion and because of the distance involved, the relocation took place over the course of two nights; during the intervening day, the divided structure, suddenly ungainly in appearance, rested at the Pomona Fairgrounds. The building arrived in Claremont at 4 a.m. on Sept. 12 accompanied by College officials, members of the Seaver family, and a veritable parade of curious onlookers, many on bicycles and roller skates.
Pomona Antique Mart
We want to spend New Year’s Day with you. Start the year off right with lots of perks from us & a day of fun filled treasure hunting. We will be open from 10am to 6pm on New Years Day 💠
Friday, December 28, 2018
Here today, gone tomorrow.
What happened? I went by this morning and "Toys R Us" sign was gone. Well maybe the people wanted it back, First on the scene 😎.
#Advisory: The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a wind advisory through Saturday, with wind gusts reaching 60mph. 💨
Time to go tell someone, to "go fly a kite", I know a few, lol.
“Who was Mr. Puddingstone?”
“Who was Mr. Puddingstone?” a young college student asked recently. Alas — there was no Mr. Puddingstone for whom the Lake and Dam might be named.
According to Mrs. Harry Walker, our first Historian, its name was suggested when a group of friends walked from Grand Ave. (now Damien) to the Falls about 1888 for a picnic. Some of the (conglomerate) rocks in the area seemed to them to resemble raisins in a pudding, so they decided to call the place “Puddingstone” Falls. (You can still see these rocks in places near the Lake - notably on the hill just to the SW of Brackett Field and near the present “Hot Tubs”.)
According to Mrs. Harry Walker, our first Historian, its name was suggested when a group of friends walked from Grand Ave. (now Damien) to the Falls about 1888 for a picnic. Some of the (conglomerate) rocks in the area seemed to them to resemble raisins in a pudding, so they decided to call the place “Puddingstone” Falls. (You can still see these rocks in places near the Lake - notably on the hill just to the SW of Brackett Field and near the present “Hot Tubs”.)
In 1890, when surveying the meadow where Saturnino Carrion had grazed his cattle, William Mount identified this as an ideal site for a natural reservoir. (He called the place “Pudding Hole”.) J. H. Adams of Covina, claimed that “God almighty has built this reservoir for the people, that this valley may become luxuriant and match the glory of the sunshine.” However, it was not until 1928 that Puddingstone Dam was dedicated and the Lake filled from the stream that ran down from San Dimas Canyon.
The Park surrounding the Lake was also known as Puddingstone until County Supervisor Frank Bonelli retired, when the name was changed in his honor to its present identification as “Bonelli Park.”
Early street names were altered for reasons we can sometimes only guess at. The street now named “Damien” for the Catholic High School on Bonita Avenue was originally “Grand Avenue.” Since the Grand Avenue in Covina is a major artery, the Fire Department asked that our street be renamed to minimize confusion.
San Dimas Canyon Road was known for many years as Artesia Street. Probably it was named for the Artesian Wells at Mud Springs, which had their location around the present intersection of San Dimas Canyon Road and Arrow Highway. Was it perhaps when the north end of the road was improved into the Canyon that the name was changed? Or when the artesian wells ran dry?
Puddingstone Falls
Early street names were altered for reasons we can sometimes only guess at. The street now named “Damien” for the Catholic High School on Bonita Avenue was originally “Grand Avenue.” Since the Grand Avenue in Covina is a major artery, the Fire Department asked that our street be renamed to minimize confusion.
San Dimas Canyon Road was known for many years as Artesia Street. Probably it was named for the Artesian Wells at Mud Springs, which had their location around the present intersection of San Dimas Canyon Road and Arrow Highway. Was it perhaps when the north end of the road was improved into the Canyon that the name was changed? Or when the artesian wells ran dry?
“Bank Street” was the name of the one-block-long street beside the First National Bank of San Dimas. When the Fruit Exchange opened its office on that street, the name went to Exchange Place, which it is now.
It seems reasonable that the street beside the Santa Fe Depot was called Depot Street. At what point did some City-Beautiful person decide that it should be Monte Vista?
When we had one of our rainy winters, did water come roaring down Cataract Street? And what developer dreamed of an Ocean Bluff when he named that street? We know Dunning Way and St. George Drive were both named for the family who owned the large property on both sides of Lone Hill Avenue, north of Arrow Highway, but who was “Amelia”?
And then there’s “Eucla” - which was originally “Eucalyptus” - was it shortened by a sign-painter who couldn’t spell
It seems reasonable that the street beside the Santa Fe Depot was called Depot Street. At what point did some City-Beautiful person decide that it should be Monte Vista?
When we had one of our rainy winters, did water come roaring down Cataract Street? And what developer dreamed of an Ocean Bluff when he named that street? We know Dunning Way and St. George Drive were both named for the family who owned the large property on both sides of Lone Hill Avenue, north of Arrow Highway, but who was “Amelia”?
And then there’s “Eucla” - which was originally “Eucalyptus” - was it shortened by a sign-painter who couldn’t spell
JAN 5 Anderson Speaks about Animalia by Women Artists in Post-War Cl
The Claremont Museum of Art is pleased to partner with Claremont Heritage and Cathleen Ford Miner to present a lecture by curator and art historian Susan M. Anderson that focuses on the women artists featured in the Claremont Museum of Art’s current exhibition.
Join us on Saturday, January 5 at 4:00 p.m. at the Claremont Heritage Ginger Elliott Gallery, for this informative talk followed by a reception. The Gallery is located in Memorial Park at 840 N Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont. We invite you to visit the museum exhibition in the Depot at 200 W. First Street, before the lecture from noon to 4:00 p.m., or after during the Village Art Walk, from 6 to 9:00 p.m.
Join us on Saturday, January 5 at 4:00 p.m. at the Claremont Heritage Ginger Elliott Gallery, for this informative talk followed by a reception. The Gallery is located in Memorial Park at 840 N Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont. We invite you to visit the museum exhibition in the Depot at 200 W. First Street, before the lecture from noon to 4:00 p.m., or after during the Village Art Walk, from 6 to 9:00 p.m.
The informative talk will focus on the women artists featured in the Claremont Museum of Art’s current exhibition Primal Nature: Animalia by Women in Post-War Claremont. A reception will follow the lecture. Visit the museum in the Depot at 200 W. First Street noon to 4:00 p.m. to see the exhibition before the lecture or stop by after for Art Walk from 6 to 9:00 p.m.Primal Nature: Animalia by Women in Post-War Claremont examines how animals, both real and fantastic, occupied an important place in artistic expression in mid-twentieth century Claremont. On display through January 6, the exhibition features the art of women who were art faculty or students at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School—Jean Goodwin Ames, Barbara Beretich, Betty Davenport Ford, Marjorie Burgeson, Susan Hertel, Martha Underwood, Nina De Creeft Ward—as well as other local artists—Dora de Larios, Ingrid Petersen, Hildred Reents and Ellamarie Wooley. The artists were selected not only for their work as ceramists, painters, enamelists and sculptors, but also for their contributions as educators, promoters and community-builders for the arts after World War II
Start the year off right with lots of perks
We want to spend New Year’s Day with you. Start the year off right with lots of perks from us & a day of fun filled treasure hunting. We will be open from 10am to 6pm on New Years Day 💠
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Orange Belt Fruit Distributors Inc.
Packing and shipping of citrus fruit. 1940. Western U parking lot now, I grew up a block away. Goodwill is across the street (not shown in Picture) was located on E. Second St. just to give you an idea where it was at.
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Magical Chinese Lantern Festivalwith
Evening skies blaze color and light at the Fairplex in Pomona during the Magical Chinese Lantern Festivalwith . This all-ages experience features over 1,000 hand-crafted lanterns, live entertainment and delicious food for purchase. Chinese folk artists demonstrate their ancient crafts, including a live kung fu showcase and on-stage coaching, all with the ambiance to reconnect with nature and to create lifelong memories with friends and family. If you need a unique place to snap a few stunning Instagram-worthy photos, this is the place to do it. Witness illuminated cheetahs, jumping koi fish, majestic cranes and even dinosaurs of beautiful paper and silk.
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