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Column: Ed Nelson was actor and dad, but never mayor
Sunday’s column marks the first-year anniversary of the death of actor Ed Nelson, who lived in Pomona and San Dimas for more than two decades. I wrote about him when he died, in part based on a lovely...
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San Dimas center now fresher, easier
Sometimes I’ll shop at the Fresh and Easy in San Dimas, which is at Bonita Avenue and San Dimas Canyon Road. I used to go to one in Upland, but after the chain’s drastic cutback, the next-nearest...
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Column: ‘Corona na’ sign on 57 nixed, fixed
You blog readers know all about it, but column readers may not be aware of the 57 Freeway typo. So they’re alerted in Friday’s column, which also presents a Culture Corner, a Valley Vignette and a plug...
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The sidewalks of San Dimas
Cleaning out some photos on my camera, I found a few from 2016 of downtown San Dimas’ Bonita Avenue, where the wooden sidewalks were due to be torn out and replaced by something more modern. The...
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Unofficial city motto
License plate frame: “San Dimas, Best City By A Dam Site,” a punning reference to Puddingstone Dam, and damn, I mean, darn funny. I hadn’t seen one of these frames in a while when I saw this, and I...
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Column: In ’72, ‘Night Gallery’ sent chills through local election
I follow up on my recent column on Rod Serling’s “The Night Gallery” by telling the story of how a San Dimas City Council election was upended by one candidate’s appearance on the show: His opponents...
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Column: No way! ‘Bill and Ted’s’ Circle K now history
San Dimas’ Circle K was not literally in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” as the scenes involving the San Dimas Circle K were filmed in Tempe, Arizona. But people around town, and visitors, did...
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