Did you know that Ventura County once hosted its own version of Knott’s Berry Farm? In this month’s Journal Flashback we’re sharing the…

Spring is in the air and in this Journal Flashback we’re sharing an article about the Bard family’s garden at Berylwood. The Bard…

By Patricia A. Allen In this month’s Journal Flashback we’re sharing an article by Patricia Allen on the horrific toll of the St….

By Powell Greenland In this month’s Journal Flashback we are sharing an article on the original Port Hueneme Lighthouse. The precariousness of the…

By J.H. Russell In this edition of Journal Flashback, we present a little nugget on a very short-lived gold rush in the Conejo…

By Madeline Miedema In this Journal Flashback we continue with the second part of Madeline Miedema’s article on the Oxnard Public Library, published…

By Emilie Ritchen In this 1981 article the author gives a brief history of the Carnegie library. He recounts how the community came…

Edited by Grant W. Heil This month’s Journal Flashback presents an account of taking a stagecoach from Ventura, through the Santa Clara Valley,…

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…