La Cañada History: ‘Ducktail’ haircuts make their way into women’s fashion
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Ten Years Ago
The Summer Beach Bus to Santa Monica from the Foothills was proving to be so popular with riders that its service was expanded from two days a week to five by the city of La Cañada Flintridge.
Twenty Years Ago
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy filed an application with City Hall to expand its facilities. The proposed three-phase project would include, among other upgrades, the creation of a large athletic field area with two lighted fields, a two-story student activities center and additional parking stalls.
Thirty Years Ago
Taking note of the Summer Olympics then going on at various venues in the Los Angeles region, La Cañadan Christopher Cundey, then 13, with the help of friend Heinz Gehner, staged the XXIII Mini-Olympiad in their Daleridge Road neighborhood. The two signed up several local children, who filled out entry forms and determined which countries they’d each represent in the local competition. They held a “Parade of Countries,” complete with flags, prior to competing in athletic events for medals furnished by Christopher’s dad, Dean Cundey.
Forty Years Ago
In criminal court news, a 17-year-old Altadena resident, Jerry Darnell Storms, was convicted of second-degree murder during the summer of 1974 for the Christmas Eve 1973 stabbing death of La Cañadan Timothy Michael Butler, 13, who had been riding a horse in the Arroyo Seco with a friend when they were accosted by Storms. When Butler refused to dismount on Storms’ demand, he was stabbed.
Fifty Years Ago
As La Cañada Junior Baseball Assn. reached the end of its 1964 season its all-star classic was held on the field at La Cañada High, which had opened in the fall of 1963. Spectators of the game saw for the first time the new $30,000 lighting system, $21,000 of it already paid for through community fundraisers. It was hoped that the $9,000 remaining on the invoice would be paid off after a golf tournament planned for October of that year.
Sixty Years Ago
Ducktail haircuts — which had previously been a hallmark of rebellious male teens — came into their own with females in the early half of the 1950s. In August 1954 three La Cañada girls, sisters Kathy and Ginny Hairgrove and neighbor Cindy Hill, posed for the cover of the Valley Sun to show off their stylish hairdos.
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Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.