Category Archives: Porterville History

  1. Schwarzenegger signs gay rights bill SB 54 now law

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed two gay rights bills, one honoring late activist Harvey Milk and another recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states.
    In the last of hundreds of bill actions taken before midnight Sunday, Schwarzenegger approved the two bills by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco.
    The governor last year vetoed the measure declaring May 22 [...]

  2. Sharp Debate At High Court Over Cross On US Land

    Debate Mirrors Ongoing Porterville Controversy in Murray Park
    “I have been in Jewish cemeteries,” Eliasberg continued. “There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew.”
    From: Sharp debate at high court over cross on US land – Yahoo! News.
    This case mirrors a  current situation in Porterville,  one of many that our City has managed to [...]

  3. Currents: Roseburg woman collects movie posters | The News-Review – NRtoday.com

    Greasy-haired guys in hot rods necked with gals in poodle skirts while nearby families in Studebakers stared ahead at the screen, munching on popcorn and Pez candies.
    It was during the heyday of the drive-in movie theater, 1950, when Verne and Maymie Schwin opened their family-run business in Porterville, Calif. Nearly 60 years later, many memories [...]

  4. 99th anniversary of death of “Demented Man” in Porterville Passes unnoticed

    … until now.
    From the newspaper The San Francisco Call, August 18, 1910: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1910-08-18/ed-1/seq-7/
    DEMENTED MAN STRIPS HIMSELF BEFORE DEATH
    Nude Body Found With Clothing Scattered in Field
    [Special Dispatch to The Call]
    PORTERVILLE, Aug. 17.— PORTERVILLE, Aug. 17.— In Alila colony a party  of dove hunters yesterday discovered in a stubble field four miles east of the Southern Pacific [...]

  5. Porterville General Plan

    Download the Porterville General Plan Update here.
    Earlier today I was looking for the Porterville City General Plan. It is difficult to find on the City’s own web site. Thanks to the City Officials who helped me find this important document, which cover’s the City’s vision of itself looking out to 2030.
    Here is the Porterville General [...]

  6. Minor League Baseball in Porterville – Where was the Field?

    The Sunset League — The Hardball Times.
    Apparently, Porterville once had a minor league baseball team! From 1947 until 1951, when the population was a league low 5,000, only about 1/6 -1/7 of the current population. That places it more in line with modern-day Strathmore’s size.
    Anyone know where the field of dreams was located?