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A 1923 bond measure for $250,000 provided funding for a new high school, which opened in 1925. This view in a photograph taken circa 1928 is from where New York Avenue turns into Bella Vista Avenue. A corner of the new gymnasium, also completed in 1925, can be seen adjacent to the school. Two of the houses pictured still stand on Pleasant Street. The church spire just beyond the school belonged to the 1889 Methodist Episcopal Church. The Methodists had organized the first church in Los Gatos in 1866. The Rev. William Bramwell Priddy arrived in 1867, and recalled holding services "under a live oak tree just above the old stone mill, as long as the weather would permit." A small frame church was dedicated in 1868.
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100 years ago
The sale of the Hofstra Block on Santa Cruz Avenue Friday afternoon marks the most important transfer of real estate that has been made in Los Gatos in many years. The block consists of three stores two-stories high and five stores one-story high, and represents a value of about $49,000. (Los Gatos News--Aug. 4, 1905)
Editor's note--This building is located at 1 N. Santa Cruz and is now called the "LaCanada Building."
75 years ago
Business may have gone to the dogs in some places, but it has come to "The Cats." The bogie man, "summer slump," is unknown in Los Gatos and business conditions which are said to be quiet in parts of the country are good in this locality, a survey of several business houses disclosed this week. There is comparatively little unemployment due probably to the cannery and orchard fruit work. (Los Gatos Mail News--July 31, 1930)
50 years ago
Have the teenagers on your block been missing during the past week or so? Don't be worried, chances are they're out earning money working in the apricot sheds. Many of the surrounding orchards employ local youngsters in the various steps in moving the fruit from the trees to the packing houses. To work in the fruit, boys and girls have to be at least 12 years old. (Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer--July 28, 1955)
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Photograph courtesy of the Museums of Los Gatos