By Emilie Ritchen “2nd The city must pledge their support of the library project by not less than $1,000 a year.” In anticipation…

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By Eugene Foster Percy In this nugget, we get a glimpse of the social changes brought on by the automobile on Ventura Avenue….

Joe Terry is interviewed by Wallace E. SmithEdited with additions from Alvin F. Aggen and others In this short article from 1980 Joe…

By John Montgomery The great Boom of the Eighties reached Ventura County late (in 1886) but peaked along with the rest of southern…

By Crane S. Miller In this installment of the Journal Flashback series we present excerpts from an article on the agricultural changes in…

By Phil Brigandi Post edited by Krystell Jimenez, Project Archivist In this special edition of Journal Flashback we present excerpts from an article…

By Gary Simpson Journal Flashback presents “The Telephone Comes to Ventura,” a snapshot of the evolution of telephone services in the county. While…

By John E. Baur Next up on Journal Flashback, William Vandever! Vandever was Ventura’s first congressman. A Union veteran of the Civil War,…

By Linda Bentz We present another Journal Flashback! In this excerpt from the 2011 quarterly titled “Hidden Voices: The Chinese in Ventura County”…

By Herbert F. Ricard The visits of Presidents Nixon and Kennedy to Ventura County in the 1960s were in keeping with an old…

By Karen Jones Dowty Little is visible from the Ventura County coastline in the gray month of June. An occasional boat or gull…