Local Community History news from the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. The Daily Bulletin is an online and print publication established in 1885, serving the communities of Ontario, Pomona, Chino, Chino Hills, La Verne, Montclair, Fontana, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma, Claremont Read this News Section...
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There's been plenty of crime and punishment in the Inland Valley's past, although most of it was not exactly on the scale of Al Capone and John Dillinger. Read Full Artice...
Sometimes you just wonder if the hassle of running for public office is really worth all the grief.
In Upland today, a councilman is bearing the scars of aspiring to be mayor. Read Full Artice...
Just like millions of vacationers, Alonzo E. Taylor and his two sons one summer jumped into the car in Philadelphia for an extended visit with friends out west in Pomona. Read Full Artice...
More than a century ago, R.C.P. Smith, editor of the Ontario Record, lashed out about one of the Inland Valley's pressing issues of the day: ladies' hats. Read Full Artice...
On the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November, a number of Americans offered impressions of the president and the fateful day on which he died. Read Full Artice...
When Ontario decided a chamber of commerce was needed, it turned to its heavy hitters 100 years ago to make the idea work.
And, for its first nine months, the fledgling Ontario Chamber of Commerce became a remarkable buzzsaw of activity and triumph. Read Full Artice...
One July afternoon more than a century ago, one of the West's most colorful con men crossed the Inland Empire in one of his most spectacular stunts.
Walter E. Read Full Artice...
The Cucamonga Times would have been 100 years old next month had it survived the newspaper industry's perilous financial battles of the last century. Read Full Artice...
Even the most honest resident sometimes got swept up in the Inland Valley land booms of the 19th century, not unlike the escalation in housing prices a few years ago.
By all accounts, Joseph E. Read Full Artice...
A large silver loving cup - the prize for winning a 1911 Inland Valley automobile race - is a rather unusual fixture of the Menlo Park home of Judith Drew Amsbaugh. Read Full Artice...
There has been much concern and discussion about fact an ancient Mayan calendar ends in 2012, which some people believe is the end of the world. Read Full Artice...
When Pomona Mayor Frank P. Firey piled city officials and three reporters into automobiles 100 years ago this week, it sure wasn't to spread some holiday cheer.
That Christmas Eve 1909, Firey put together the group with the goal of hunting blind pigs. Read Full Artice...
The Inland Valley has always been a haven for tourists - a hotel was an absolute must for any new city created here more than a century ago.
But there was one class of visitors for whom the welcome mat was rarely put out. Read Full Artice...
A World's Fair of years past used to be like the Internet, cable TV and a trip to Disneyland, all wrapped up in a spectacular package. Read Full Artice...
It was a time of bathtub gin, of the Charleston and of women strutting their new-found independence in short skirts and bobbed hair. Read Full Artice...
Lots of things were going on in the mid-1970s when the city of Rancho Cucamonga was created.
As groves and vineyards disappeared, there was a fear that suburbia would bring an end to the area's bucolic lifestyle. Read Full Artice...
There's just nothing more precious than a letter from home for young men and women away in the military.
On this eve of Veterans Day, I thought I'd share some of those received by Charles R. Read Full Artice...
Actor Jack Cooper's first day in Pomona 89 years ago was hardly very memorable, and the night wasn't much to brag about either.
Cooper found himself stick in town for a couple of days with his film company while shooting a five-reel silent movie. Read Full Artice...
It's hard to picture sleepy Chino of 90 years ago as a place where miracles happened.
But pilgrims came from near and far, desperately searching for a cure for cancer or blindness or some other malady. Read Full Artice...
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