Showing posts with label Wineville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wineville. Show all posts
Friday, August 3, 2012
This Date in History - August 3, 1919
The Salt Lake Railroad was preparing to run a special train from Riverside to Wineville each morning, to return in the evening, to allow cannery workers to get to and from work at the Sterns Cannery in Wineville.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Catch That Horse!
Reported in the Riverside Daily Press on December 12, 1913:
A team belonging to Mr. Turner, while standing in front of the Wineville Cash grocery, became frightened at a passing overland train and started to run. They overturned and nearly demolished a motorcycle standing in the road and circled out through a vineyard. D.E. Bulson* ran and pluckily jumped into the back of the wagon and stopped the horses before any further damage was done. The driver of the team had the task of gathering up the groceries, which were scattered from the wagon in the road and the vineyard.
*Mr. Bulson was the owner at that time of the Wineville Cash grocery store.
A team belonging to Mr. Turner, while standing in front of the Wineville Cash grocery, became frightened at a passing overland train and started to run. They overturned and nearly demolished a motorcycle standing in the road and circled out through a vineyard. D.E. Bulson* ran and pluckily jumped into the back of the wagon and stopped the horses before any further damage was done. The driver of the team had the task of gathering up the groceries, which were scattered from the wagon in the road and the vineyard.
*Mr. Bulson was the owner at that time of the Wineville Cash grocery store.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Driving Hazards - 1914
The land out in Wineville (today's Mira Loma) is very sandy which presented many hazards in the good old days. The sand could grab a car's wheels and stop it dead in its tracks. If one of our famous Santa Ana winds was blowing it would pick up the sand, scour the paint right off your car, and bring visibility to zero.
The road through Wineville, back in 1914, was one of the major roadways drivers would use to get from Los Angeles to Riverside. Back then the road was not paved. Instead a layer of straw was laid down over the sandy soil to give cars a better surface to drive on. The problem with using straw to surface a road was made evident in July 1913. The straw caught fire, trapping as many as a hundred cars on one side or the other of the fire.
Under other circumstances the cars could have just been driven around the fire. However, with Wineville's sandy soil, the drivers were reluctant to do so because it was likely the car would get stuck. A group of three men from Riverside were returning from Mt. Baldy when they were confronted by the fire. They needed to get back to Riverside sooner rather than later so they went ahead and drove their Ford off the road and around the fire. The Riverside Enterprise said that "by considerable shoveling and pulling they got around the fire."
Another intrepid soul took his life in his hands and drove through the fire. Likely the straw was smouldering or had low flames and wasn't a raging wildfire. Still, even with the straw there was a likelihood that a car could get stuck in the sand on the road, and stuck in the middle of the fire. The car could have burned or worse, its gas tank could have exploded. However, the driver in question made it through the road fire and lived to drive another day.
The road through Wineville, back in 1914, was one of the major roadways drivers would use to get from Los Angeles to Riverside. Back then the road was not paved. Instead a layer of straw was laid down over the sandy soil to give cars a better surface to drive on. The problem with using straw to surface a road was made evident in July 1913. The straw caught fire, trapping as many as a hundred cars on one side or the other of the fire.
Under other circumstances the cars could have just been driven around the fire. However, with Wineville's sandy soil, the drivers were reluctant to do so because it was likely the car would get stuck. A group of three men from Riverside were returning from Mt. Baldy when they were confronted by the fire. They needed to get back to Riverside sooner rather than later so they went ahead and drove their Ford off the road and around the fire. The Riverside Enterprise said that "by considerable shoveling and pulling they got around the fire."
Another intrepid soul took his life in his hands and drove through the fire. Likely the straw was smouldering or had low flames and wasn't a raging wildfire. Still, even with the straw there was a likelihood that a car could get stuck in the sand on the road, and stuck in the middle of the fire. The car could have burned or worse, its gas tank could have exploded. However, the driver in question made it through the road fire and lived to drive another day.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Wedding License Oops!
Reported in the December 3, 1921 Riverside Daily Press:
Elva Patton and Roy Kock applied for a marriage licence at the Riverside County Clerk's office. No problem was encountered and they left with license in hand. However, when they presented the licence in Pomona they discovered that a marriage licence can only be used in the county in which it is taken out. They proceeded to round up a minister and two witnesses and headed out to the nearest point in Riverside County they could reach. There, at a place near Winville, they were married on the highway. Problem solved!
Elva Patton and Roy Kock applied for a marriage licence at the Riverside County Clerk's office. No problem was encountered and they left with license in hand. However, when they presented the licence in Pomona they discovered that a marriage licence can only be used in the county in which it is taken out. They proceeded to round up a minister and two witnesses and headed out to the nearest point in Riverside County they could reach. There, at a place near Winville, they were married on the highway. Problem solved!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
The Day Mira Loma Got its Name
I love going through the historic archive of the Los Angeles Times. Because the Press Enterprise is not on line the Times is the next best substitute. Last night I was looking for articles about bootlegging in Wineville by looking for any articles about Wineville between 1920 and 1933. I admit I could do this stuff 24 hours a day, it is so fun! Who knows what you might find? Well, last night I was rewarded with one of those random things I never expected. An article popped up which said that as of November 1, 1930 Wineville would cease to exist and the town would be known as Mira Loma. Because the area was unincorporated, changing the name required a name change for the post office and for the Union Pacific railroad station. So, there you go folks. November 1, 1930 is officially the day Mira Loma came to be! I hope someone out there is as excited by this piece of information as I am! Whooo whooo!!!!
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