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- “DEATH VALLEY DODGE” AT THE ISIS
- “No action” critics challenged
- “Nordhoff vs. Ojai”
- 1919 & 1920 Articles about Hotel El Roblar
- A History of Oak View
- A Place for Potters
- A Poor Farm for the Ojai Valley?
- A review of the Sixties — Part 2
- A Serene Space for Experiencing Art
- AFS pupils like new homes, school
- All Kinds of Fun
- ANOTHER BEAUTY SPOT ON MAIN STREET
- Architect of Downtown Ojai: Richard Requa Biography
- Are we ever to do anything about it?
- Arlou Wells and Harold Mashburn Married at Santa Barbara Church
- Arnaz was a Merchant, Doctor, and Rancher
- Art & About–A Passion for Ojai Music Festival Posters
- Art and About… of Dogs and Their Artists.
- Art Town: How OSA Put Ojai On The Map
- Artists in Paradise
- Beatrice Wood
- Beautification Month
- Before “The Fringe” (And After)
- BIGGERS THE BEE MAN: What’s Doin’ in Meiners
- Bike lanes on Hwy. 33 presages future
- Body found in Sespe area probably Manson attorney
- Boulez Conducts Train at Ojai Music Festival
- CAMPING OUT AT PINE MOUNTAIN — IN 1887 STYLE
- Cash rings register
- Chariot races were exciting events
- Charles Nordhoff Visits the Ojai Valley
- Charming country school a page out of the past
- City of Ojai Historic Resources Reports
- CITY’S NEW REC DIRECTOR TAKES OVER HIS DUTIES
- CIVIC PROGRAM
- Clowns, Weight Lifters Shine at Aliso Street Kids Circus
- Clyde Stewart’s Store
- Contributions needed — Museum set for expansion
- Controversy in 1893 over postmaster
- Creek takes ranger’s home
- David Mason: Linking past & Future
- Dennis Shives His Way
- Discord Comes to the Ojai Valley in 1880
- District board nixes landmark status
- Don’t ruin the grass at Zaidee Soule’s farm
- Downtown Ojai Renovation: 1919 Article
- Drew learns to drive
- E.P. Foster and Ojai’s County Parks
- Early Days in Upper Ojai
- EARLY DAYS–Nordhoff founded dramatically
- Early School Days in Valley Recalled for Clara Smith’s Party
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part I
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part II (Earl Stanley Gardner)
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part III (Chinese in Ojai)
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part IV (Nordhoff Rangers)
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part IX (Dog Fights)
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part V (The Ojai Train)
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part VI (More on the Ojai Train)
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part VII (Downtown Nordhoff)
- Early Stories of Ojai, Part VIII (Horses)
- East end houses “just a big mess”
- Effie Skelton
- EL RANCHO COLA
- ENGINEERS’ REPORT IS EXPECTED TO BE FOLLOWED BY CALL FOR BOND ISSUE
- ENJOY THE RURAL SCENE: What’s Doin’ in Meiners
- Ethel Andrus: How One Woman Changed America
- Evelyn Nordhoff is Returned
- Exiled To Mira Monte
- Faria Home Now Cluff Vista Park
- Feds doing council’s job
- Fire control subject of controversy
- Fireworks caused Ranch Fire
- Five local parks men to be honored for valor
- Focus on Photography: Going Behind the Portraits
- Folk dancing ‘all for fun’
- FORMER OAK VIEW BROOM MAKER LOOKS BACK FONDLY TO OLD DAYS
- Friends of Howard Bald gather in his memory
- Garden Club Founded in ’26
- Gene Lees in Ojai: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
- Golf in Ojai (1899)
- Groovy History: Ojai’s Two:Dot Studio
- GUN CLUB TIDIES UP SHELF ROAD SHOOTING SITE
- Hard work and no pay reward a vital job
- Harwell Hamilton Harris Design Overlooks Ojai Valley
- He got Meiners O. for unpaid debt
- How Casitas Got Its Name
- How Nordhoff deals with truancy problem
- How Soule Park Happened
- HUNGRY FLAMES DEVASTATE VALLEY
- Intangible Spirit of The Ojai (No. 1)
- Intangible Spirit of The Ojai (No. 1)
- Interview with Krishnamurti about the Ojai Valley
- Jack Dron Tells How Crew Stayed In Face of Fire to Save His Home
- Jailhouse Rocked
- January 1969 Rainfall and Resulting Damage
- John Roine and the Acacia Mansion
- Judge held court under an oak tree
- Just sniff the valley’s air to detect crisis
- Krishnamurti and the Ojai Valley
- Laugh!!!
- Less talk about hippies; more talk about change
- Let’s keep the Sespe wild
- Library was the Focus of Community 100 Years Ago
- LOOK BACK IN OJAI with Drew Mashburn
- MAJOR JOHN DRON WINS ROUND WITH PILLARS
- Major Ojai Fires
- Man who knows everyone in Ojai
- Marijuana more than a drug; it’s a symbol
- Mashburn leaving Youth Employment Service
- Matilija Dam
- Matilija Hot Springs has Colorful History
- Maynard brings back memories
- MEANING OF ‘OJAI’ IN DOUBT BUT INDIANS HAD NAME FOR IT
- Meet Milton Charles, organist of silent movies
- Meet the Mansons
- Meiners Oaks
- Memoirs by Monica Ros, founder of Monica Ros School
- Memories & Reminiscences of Oak View
- Memories of times before freeways recall life as simple, safe
- Mixed emotions on what needs fixing at Nordhoff
- Mixin’ it Up AT TOPA TOPA ELEMENTARY
- Mother Dies, Family Critically Hurt In Holiday Accident
- Murky Water
- My Chumash Ancestral Legacy
- My Favorite Town — OJAI, CALIFORNIA
- Name most valuable of Ranger gridders
- New firebreak shields valley
- NEW RULES FOR KINDERGARTEN ANNOUNCED
- Nordhoff Cemetery: Frank Frost
- Nordhoff High School (1909 – 1919)
- Nordhoff’s Rangers Symbolized the Wild West
- Norman Marsh Designed Nordhoff High School (1910)
- Oak View Fire Station 23
- Oaks history — never dull
- Ojai Artists: Jeff Mann
- Ojai Issues in 1900, from The Ojai Newspaper
- Ojai People: Mark Frost, Storyteller
- Ojai People: Sergio Aragones
- OJAI SHOPS SHOW NEW FALL STYLES AT FASHION SHOW
- OJAI VALLEY Memorable Trees
- Ojai Valley sold for 45-cents an acre
- Ojai Village Pharmacy: 120 Years of Unbroken Business
- Ojai was ‘torn apart and rebuilt’
- Ojai’s Brick Firehouse
- Ojai’s First Jail
- Ojai’s first jail still exists near Santa Barbara
- Ojai’s first newspaper proclaims high hopes for the future of valley
- Ojai’s First Store
- Ojai’s Gold Rush!
- Ojai’s Juvenile Delinquency Problem–1926
- Old Gray
- Old Nordhoff Brochure – 1910
- One of those who made Ojai, Ojai, passes away
- ONE RANGER’S SUMMER
- Optimists honor 25 Nordhoff students
- Orchid Town was an attraction in the ’40s and ’50s
- Orestes and Ella Mae Orr
- Our only protection is thru long range planning
- Our problem: growth
- Our Town, Part 1–Dr. Saeger & Andy Van Curen
- Our Town, Part 2-Social Life in Early Nordhoff
- Our Town: Helen Baker Reynolds (Part III) “Days Ritual”
- Our Town: Helen Baker Reynolds (Part V) “School”
- PARKING IN OJAI A GROWING PROBLEM
- PARKING METERS FOR OJAI . . . ?
- PATH OF FLAMES MARKED BY BARE HILLS AND RUIN (ARTICLE #1)
- PATH OF FLAMES MARKED BY BARE HILLS AND RUIN (ARTICLE #2)
- Photo: Foodway Market in Meiners Oaks
- Photo: Girls Joyriding in Ojai
- Photo: Ojai Train at Devil’s Gulch
- Police mull action to ‘clean up’ park
- Pony Express Day will be held at Lake Casitas
- Postcard: Art Sunday in 1970’s Ojai
- Postcard: Forest Rangers at Matilija Hot Springs
- Postcard: Hanging Rock — A Trysting Place.
- Postcard: Krishnamurti at the Oak Grove
- Postcard: Krotona Braille Institute
- Postcard: Matilija Hot Springs Pool
- Postcard: Matilija Stage Coach
- Postcard: Nordhoff High School (1910)
- Postcard: Ojai State Bank, 1910
- Postcard: Pierpont-Ginn House
- Postcard: Thacher School Administration Building
- Postcard: The Frost-Coolidge Music Festival
- Postcard: The Ojai Pharmacy
- Postcard: Wheeler’s Bathing Beauties
- Preditors take over Pony league lead
- Public Elementary
- PUBLIC SECONDARY
- Rampaging storm damages valley
- Ranger Bald was a man among men
- Rara Avis in Our Midst
- Realtors: time is right to buy home
- Recharge Of Ojai Basin By Purchase Of Matilija Water Proposed To District
- Recreational Facilities
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 1)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 10)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 2)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 3)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 4)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 5)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 6)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 7)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 8)
- Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 9)
- Review of the Sixties — Part 3
- Review of the Sixties — Part 4
- Richard Robinson
- Santa will visit homes Xmas eve
- SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM ORGANIZATION UNDERWAY
- Sentimental malcontents who prefer fresh air!
- Shangri-La: A Matter of Preservation and Progress
- Shangri-La: Ojai’s Untold Stories
- Sharp & Savvy: Abram Blumberg
- Sharp & Savvy: Abram Lincoln Hobson
- Sharp & Savvy: Charles Millard Pratt
- Sharp & Savvy: Dr. Benjamin Levan Saeger
- Sharp & Savvy: Edward Drummond Libbey
- Sharp & Savvy: Fernando Tico
- Sharp & Savvy: John J. Burke
- Sharp & Savvy: John Meiners
- Sharp & Savvy: Royce Gaylord Surdam
- Sharp & Savvy: Sherman Day Thacher
- Sharp & Savvy: The Clark Brothers
- Sharp & Savvy: Thomas R. Bard
- SINGULAR CHARACTERS
- Spelunking and other Vignettes from Drew’s Boyhood Days
- Spreading Grounds Receive Surplus Matilija Water
- Summer Bummer: Ojai in the Turbulent 60s
- Supervisors forecast county problems as water, growth, health and homeless
- Tarra the Roller Skating Elephant
- Technology vs. nature’s wisdom
- The “iron horse” came to the valley in ’98
- The Age of Reformation: The founding of AARP in Ojai
- The Beautiful Drives of the ’90s
- The Casitas Pass Stagecoach Road
- The Dennison Family
- The Duke Comes to Ojai
- The First Ojai Boom (1873)
- The Great Akela hands out pack awards on final pow wow of year
- The Hollingsworth Ranch
- The Little Brick Schoolhouse
- The looking glass
- The Mason Chronicles (1)
- The Mason Chronicles (2)
- The Meaning of Ojai Day
- The Ojai Mountain Lion
- THE OJAI TAVERN
- THE OJAI VALLEY MUSEUM AND “THE OJAI’
- The Ojai Valley School
- The Ojai: Pink Moment Promises
- THE PLANE TRUTH ABOUT OJAI’S AVIATION HISTORY
- THE ROAD FROM VENTURA TO OJAI
- The Road to Art Country
- THE ROAD TO OJAI
- The Second Foothills Hotel
- The Sixties in Ojai — Part 1
- THE SPANISH SETTLERS
- The story of the man who Transformed Ojai
- THE THACHER SCHOOL
- THE TRANSFORMATION HAS BEGUN
- The Women’s Club – A Long Record of Service
- There were no roads here when Ayers arrived
- Tourists big depositors in city’s bank account
- Transformation of Ojai: 1916-17
- Tribute to Larry Hagman
- Troop 504 celebrated BSA birthday with Court of Honor
- True friends trust each other enough to share
- Turn of the Century Ojai
- Twelve Records Set At Matilija Meet
- Two Military-Plane Crash Newspaper Articles
- VALLEY HOMES OUT OF DANGER
- Valley Market Owner Can Do Anything
- Vast Reaches of Los Padres Forest Excite Visitors’ Imagination on Ranger Inspection
- Volunteer team is dedicated to helping Valley neighbors
- Walker Built Homes on Cutting Edge of Day’s Design
- War Wagon!
- Water candidates tackle key issues
- WATER PROJECTS
- WHAT’S NEW DOWNTOWN?
- Wheeler Hot Springs: New Owners Confront Old Issues
- Wheeler’s Hot Springs Auto Stage Line
- When Cars and Service Came to Town
- Wini’s love prompted meat loaf generosity
- Women-of-the-Year give time, energy to help community
- WORK TO START ON “THE OJAI TAVERN”
- World War II Comes to Ojai
- YES, the job presents myriad of challenges