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…