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 We present the first in our new series Journal Flashback! This series will focus on previously published articles, snippets…

By Karen Jones Dowty Next in our Journal Flashback series is an article from MVC Quarterly Volume 23, Issue 3. Written in 1978…