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Early Los Gatans gather at the corner of Oak Street (changed to Front Street in 1895, and now Montebello Way) and Main Street on Election Day in 1883. The tall building at the right, the 'Wilcox House,' housed the Commercial Bank until it burned to the ground in the great fire of 1901. The Rankin Block was built on this site in 1904, and still stands today. According to notes penciled on this 122-year-old image, prohibition supporters were assembled in the crowd, including F.W. Crandall, who stands under the flag at right, holding a petition. Crandall and his partner, W.F. Rice, owned the 'Big Orchard Drying Establishment,' contracted every year to dry tons of prunes.
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100 years ago
County Superintendent of Schools D.T. Bateman has received the state's apportionment of moneys for the schools of this county. The apportionment is made on a basis of $6 per child, and the amounts indicate that Los Gatos leads the county outside of San Jose. ( Los Gatos Mail , July 13, 1905)
75 years ago
An average operating payroll of between $1,200 and $1,300 is being paid to an average of 475 cannery employees by Hunt Brothers cannery, Santa Cruz and Saratoga avenues. ( Los Gatos Mail-News , July 17, 1930)
50 years ago
The El Gato Rural League Against Annexation swiveled its big guns from a dormant annex issue yesterday and boomed away for beautification of the Route 5 Freeway through Los Gatos. Appearing before the newly-formed Santa Clara County Parks Commission, Henry Frank, league spokesman, told the commissioners his group was acutely interested in the outcome of what County Planning Director Karl Belser termed "the Los Gatos Canyon." ( Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer , July 14, 1955)
25 years ago
Six new lighted tennis courts at the new Blossom Hill Park aren't even completed, but a confrontation concerning their use was a subject at July's Los Gatos Parks Commission meeting. ( Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer , July 15, 1975)
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Photograph courtesy of the Charles Bergtold Collection