May-June 2018 Newsletter & Archive
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The Glendora hisTorical socieTy Preserving Our Heritage Since 1947 www.glendorahistoricalsociety.org May-June 2018 Newsletter & Archive T h e G l o ry a n d T h e d r e a m Part 1: A Village by James Baker When Monday, May 21 Where Glendora Public Library, Bidwell Forum 140 S. Glendora Avenue Time 6:30-8:30pm (Program will begin at 7pm) Cost FREE - open to the public - Refreshments served. hrough the use of archival photos, music, and movies, the presentation will travel Tthrough time to explore some of the iconic buildings in our Glendora Village. Jim Baker is the program chair for the Glendora Historical Society. He is interested in all areas of history, with a particular emphasis in the American West. He holds an MA in History. s a v e T h e d a T e In this issue: n s Ta l l aT i o n i n n e r Glory and the Dream i d Bee Not a Buzz Kill Howser Exhibition Sunday, June 24 • 5:00-8:00pm Karen Cullen To purchase online: bit.ly/ghs_dinner_2018 Olivia Andonian Ed Bennett Passes Glendoran Turns 35 See last page for details. Happy Mothers Day THE GLENDORA Volunteers! HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mail address: P.O. Box 532, Glendora, CA 91740 ome Join U Preserving Our Heritage Since 1947 c s R e p o rt Y o u r G l e n d o r a m U s e U m 314 North Glendora Avenue Glendora, California Open Saturdays, 11:00am until 2:00pm. Hours! For special tours of the Museum call (626) 963-0419 HANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE to the Society. Rubel Castle tours by appointment only. TTracking your many hours of service is important For details and reservations, visit our website for planning future projects and to demonstrate we have www.glendorahistoricalsociety.org. an engaged membership when applying for grants. Please G e n e r a l m e e T i n G s try to track or estimate your monthly service hours and The GHS program/general meeting will take place report them on a regular basis. I will do my best to send May 21. All are Monday nights 6:30-9 pm in the reminders! Glendora Public Library Bidwell Forum, 140 South The end of the Society year is June 30, please get your Glendora Avenue. Our programs are organized in hours together before then for the year end report. partnership with the Glendora Public Library and are free and open to the public. Times and location The easiest way to record your monthly service hours by subject to change and will be announced. filling out the form at this link: B o a r d m e e T i n G s tinyurl.com/ghsvolunteerform The next two regularly scheduled Board Meetings NOTE: if you can’t click on this link, try to copy & paste or will take place Monday, June 18 and July 23 at type it into the address bar of your favorite web browser. 6 pm in the Rubel Castle Bennett Room. All members are welcome to attend. If you need help or have problems with this form, let me know. — Steven Bluitt Flowers Agendas, meeting minutes, and financial reports of previous meetings of the GHS Board are filed at the Museum, and can also be made available upon request in electronic format. o f f i c e r s Hop on over to a n d e x e c ut i v e B o a r d o f d i r e c T o r s President: .....................................................................Jim Riley Running Horse Studio Executive Vice President ....................... Steven Bluitt Flowers Museum Vice President: ..........................Karen Fortus-Garcia HE ONE-STOP SHOP for all things related to Development Vice President: ..........................................Vacant TCarousel culture will host visitors from the Society Castle Vice President: ........................................Jerry Heinrich this weekend. Treasurer: ...........................................................Ruanne Skeels Secretary: ............................................................Steve Edwards Meet at the Museum by 10:30 on Saturday, May 19 for an 8 mile trip to the Studio. Carpool and lunch somewhere d i r e c T o r s that day. Director: ................................................................ Karen Cullen Membership Co-Chairs: ............... Susie Kramer & Janet Sorensen To learn more about this local, one-of-a-kind secret Publicity Chair: ............................ Marlene Flowers-Lamerson through Fascinating Nouns, the same podcast that Director: ...........................................................................Vacant published Scott Rubel’s Castle interview last year. Newsletter Editor: ................................................... Scott Rubel bit.ly/2pq0Iti. Director (Gift Shop Coordinator): ........................DeDe Tomory Information Technology Chair: ..............................Craig Woods runninghorsestudio.com — Suzie Kramer s U p p o r T v o l U n T e e r s Program Chair: ..........................................................Jim Baker If there are any suggestions, corrections or additions to Castle Curator: ............................................... Patricia Sullivan the Newsletter, please contact Scott Rubel via email at: Castle Garden Coordinator: ................................. Amy Wolkins [email protected]. Sunshine Chair: .................................................. Carol Treacey Hospitality Chair: ........................................... Olivia Andonian If you would like to be on an email list to get announcements between Newsletters, request this from Craig Woods at s U p p o r T e m p l o y e e s [email protected]. Castle Tour Coordinator .........................................Allen Veteri GLENDORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MAY-JUNE 2018 NEWSLETTER 2 c a l e n d a r ¶ come Join Us ¶ Upcoming activities for Glendora Historical Society Members and Friends. ~ Monday, May 21 | 6:30pm ~ MeMbership Meeting and Final Votes, Bidwell Forum ~ Monday, May 28 | 11:30am ~ 142nd MeMorial day obserVance, Fairmount Pioneer Cemetery ~ Saturday, June 9 | 10:00-2:00 ~ heritage day, Centennial Park ~ Monday, June 18 | 6:00pm ~ board oF directors, Rubel Castle Bennett Room. ~ Sunday, June 24 | 5:00-8:00pm ~ installation dinner, Glendora Country Club Heritage Day Memorial Day HE ANNUAL GLENDORA Heritage Day top the old San Felipe Hill, shaded by ancient TFestival is Saturday, June 9th and the Society Apepper trees, is Fairmount Pioneer Cemetery. will again be supporting the City of Glendora and the Founded in 1876, Fairmount was the first cemetery in Glendora Preservation Foundation. We need volunteers our area (folks in the lower San Gabriel Valley utilized to staff the Historical Society table, and volunteers to burial sites in “Spadra” and Pomona), and was dedicated oversee the water pump station, hay jump, etc. Email as a Glendora Historic Landmark in 1991. Although [email protected] the cemetery is no longer in use, it is open to the public each Memorial Day for a special Glendora/Azusa service, for more information or to volunteer. arranged by the Cemetery Trustees. — Steven Bluitt Flowers We hope you can join us at Fairmount Pioneer Cemetery for the 142nd annual commemoration of Memorial Day, Amazon will donate .5% Monday May 28, 11:30 a.m. of All Eligible Purchases DIRECTIONS: Travelling on Barranca Avenue, head West on Elderberry Street (North of Foothill Blvd, by the to GHS railroad crossing) to the end. Turn “right” for one block, then “left” for one block, and then a final “right.” F YOU ARE AN AMAZON CUSTOMER,, just — Steven Bluitt Flowers Idesignate Glendora Historical Society as your Smile charity from your account page. Then when you make a purchase you sign in to smile.amazon.com. Even if you have items in your cart already you can sign in and check out. GLENDORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MAY-JUNE 2018 NEWSLETTER 3 The Society is Not a Buzzkill ermann h ans h : hs P Hossein Saaedy shows off a honeycomb and col- hotogra lects bees from the north wall of the Tin Palace. P E’VE LEARNED A LOT about bees lately! A With bee populations on the decline, don’t call an Whive was found thriving under the eaves on the exterminator, call a beekeeper! You will save money too. North end of the Tin Palace. Between corrugated metal Beekeepers are less expensive than exterminators. that lines the outside of the citrus packing house and Beekeeping has a long history on the property, dating the wooden stud innards, bees were busy building their back at least to the Needham Ranch era, through Arthur honey comb homes. Is that why we had a bear visiting Bourne’s tenure and well into the Rubel era. In the the area a couple of years ago? early 1960s, Grandfather Harry A. Deuel would catch bees in his fist and sting his own knuckles to soothe his According to Hossein Saaedy, beekeeper with Los arthritis. In the 1980s Castle crews were harvesting Angeles County Beekeepers, there were approximately about 70 gallons of honey annually, but Michael Rubel 400-500 thousand bees in that spot building their honey shut the operation down, fearing contamination by the combs over a three-year period. Because the bees were Africanized bee invasion. in a hard to reach area, a specialty bee vacuum was used to safely move the bees and combs into temporary frame In the 80s, a wall, under the weight of hundreds of boxes. For a few days, the bees hang out and acclimate to pounds of honey, ruined the night of a sleeping resident their new temporary homes until Hossein takes them to as it caved in onto his bed. Don’t wait to move your bees. his house until they’re ready to be adopted out. To get more information and find a beekeeper, visit: Houssein says he gets 500-700 avocados a year from one losangelescountybeekeepers.com or the Bee Allies tree with pollination help from the bees he keeps! The Swarm Hotline: (424) 353-BEES [2337] bees then get adopted out to small non-profit farms in Many thanks to Hans Hermann for calling a beekeeper, Sacramento and Victorville, who would not be able to overseeing the work, and for taking pictures! afford to rent bees for their pollination needs.