Lakeside Historical Society

The 70th anniversary of Lindo Park School was held on April 25th 2019. "On April 25th, 1949, Lindo Park School was dedicated and open to the public. The cost of the new school was $139,000, and Sam M. Harnill was the school architect. The school originally consisted of a kindergarten, six classrooms, and an office, however, the master plan called for expanding to two kindergarten classes, 12 additional classrooms, a cafeteria/auditorium. The expansion was completed in 1952." For more info visit https://www.lsusd.net/domain/659?fbclid=IwAR2Fad77t4gfUKv0ohakVoaNT_jRVuFdATH4JUCB1-MX4yZlfhy5XUxqmHc

Edna Kouns memorial

In Honor of Dave Moss Sr.

With heavy hearts, LHS is sad to have lost Dave Moss Sr. May 11, 2019. Dave Moss Sr. was a resident of Lakeside since around 1967. In memory of Dave, we rang the bell five times - paused - rang one time - paused and rang one more time during his son Dave Moss Jr’s Sherriff presentation on Saturday May 18, 2019. The bell echoed throughout Lakeside for Dave Sr. The Moss family is invited to come and ring the old church bell every year in his honor on May 11th. Dave Moss Sr. was in the newspaper as runner up in the "Horse around in Lakeside" bumper sticker contest back in November 1976. Next time you see a Horse around in Lakeside bumper sticker, think of him knowing he was involved in our little town, his clever second place slogan was “Lakeside Is The Countryside”. He was always proud of being involved in the community. We are also proud of Dave Moss Jr's accomplishments in the county. As a boy, Dave grew up going to our schools in the Lakeside, he eventually went on to become the Commander in the San Diego Sheriff's department. Dave Jr's old friend Rob Harding and current LHS VP spoke in place of Dave Jr. and kept everything going to honor the Moss family, history and community involvement, filling the guest speaker spot on the history of the SD Sheriff's department. It was nice to have Lieutenant Fran Passalacqua from the Lakeside substation representing Commander Dave Moss for the sheriff's department. Thank you, Lieutenant Passalacqua. It was a somber day but we carried on like Dave Jr. would have wanted us too. Dave Moss Sr's memorial will be July 3rd at 1130 AM at the Miramar National Cemetery. We cannot give the Moss family enough prayers as their hearts are very heavy at this time. "Hoping to comfort them in some way" Is a quote from Rob Harding during the ringing of the bell when we held a moment of silence in honor Daves dad. RIP Dave Moss Sr.

GEORGE MILLER BELLS

Lakeside Historical Society Presents; Imagine picking up some flour and coffee at the Lakeside Store at the corner of Maine Avenue and Lakeshore drive in 1904. Then hearing George Millers Bells ringing loudly on his lead horse, warning everyone in town to move over, while thousands of pounds of freight rolls past ya heading for Julian. That was a familiar sound back then and it will be a lost familiar sound coming back to life this weekend! The Historic Julian county highway is our Maine Avenue and later becoming highway 67. Come and relive this once in a lifetime event on April 27th at 930 AM at the Western day's parade and hear the horses trot with the original safety device again displaying their warning sound from over 100 years ago. Special thanks to Tom Isom for loaning the Bells, Sioux Munyon Swart with her team of horses and wagon and Turtle Rock Ridge Winery of Ramona CA for supplying the barrels to load the wagon, AND,,, Rob Harding aka Dusty Rhodes for making it all happen.

LAKESIDE HISTORY TODAY

Lakeside Historical Society brings our history alive. LHS is run by volunteers willing to give of their time to the preserving the past and present history of our town of Lakeside CA All our volunteers are amazing. Today Rob Harding, aka, Dusty Rhodes presented gifts to the Lakeside Union School District school bus transportation department. Here is Dusty's statement: "The Lakeside School Bus Transportation Building got a cool surprise today from LHS !!! They received 3 giant 22 x 48 prints of the first “covered" school bus from a 1930 photo courtesy of Tom Isom family photos. And a picture of the first school bus courtesy of Lakeside Historical Society Archive photos. The third picture is a close-up view of the Isom family photo to see the grammar school logo clearly. The open style bus was with Wellington Hoover and kids at the Lakeview school pre-1923 (the 1920s). The closed bus was taken with George Miller, Marion Miller, Wallace Phillips, Earlene Parker and H.S. Kibbey in front of the current Marys donut shop on Maine Avenue in 1930. Tim Armstrong of Diesel Printing (a Lakeside small business) donated all his labor to the project enlarging the prints. Then Tommy Coble donated the labor to build the new 3D type outer edge frameless displays and hangers. Dusty Rhodes donated the kiln dried wood for Tommy. Then all the district bus drivers donated their time to do a group picture at the yard! Superintendent Andy Johnson arrived with Maintenance director Todd Owens to make it official to put this picture in the history books to keep in Lakeside forever. We love this town !!! Let's not forget Billy Ortiz who donated his time for the article, photos and edit of video to put in our digital archives. We really missed Tom Isom this morning but we talked to him on the phone during picture shoot and he was glad we were enjoying the moment. (Grandson of Geroge Miller who we did the bells presentation on who is in covered bus photo) Let's keep our history going Lakeside !

Christmas Resale Shop is ready to open tomorrow at 10 AM till 830pm

LIVING HISTORY DAYS 6-2018

Edna Kouns

Edna was on Ken Kramer's show "About San Diego"

LHS is getting ready for Mrs. Claus Christmas Shoppe. Sale starts December 1st. See previous post for details.

Ringing the bell for our veterans

YARD SALE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 8AM TILL 2PM BOTH DAYS AT LHS 9906 Maine Ave Lakeside!!! We have been working hard to bring you our annual Yard Sale. We have lots of nice treasures both inside the church and outside, hundreds and hundreds of items from office furniture to beautiful dishes. I was hoping to show the outside stuff but they had it covered up before I could get to it.

San Diego Historical Society interviewing m Edna.

SAN VICENTE OPENING DAY 9-21-2016

SAN VICENTE OPENING DAY 9-21-2016

Gary Mitrovich talks about Lakeside history

LIVING HISTORY DAYS JUNE 2016

Circa 1940's The Lakeside rodeo was a big East county attraction. The rodeo grounds were then located at Channel Rd. and Mapleview Ave. Video editing by Billy Ortiz Come on by on Wednesdays between 10AM and 2PM. We have our archives open for research, photos may be purchased.

Great display today at our museum, Darners and mini sewing machines. Come take a look, they are here till 2PM

East County Equestrian Center, first community meeting

(I didn't replace Billy Ortiz, I am only covering during his absence as much as I can. ) Here is the video from the last night event at Lakeside Community Center. Members of the East County Equestrian Foundation and the County of San Diego met with the local community to gather ideas about the planned covered arena to be built in Lakeside. The turnout was great and you are all welcome to come to the next and last meeting in March. What an amazing idea and it's much needed in our town. Many thanks to everybody who made this possible. Lots of work ahead and volunteers are needed. Get involved now. Here's the foundation page with updates if interested: https://www.facebook.com/East-County-Equestrian-Foundation-395122717287338/?fref=ts Ana Nita

LUCILLE FOSTER FILMS

1940's or so movie clips shot by a member of the Lucille Foster family in the El Monte Valley in Lakeside Ca. Shots of the spillway at El Capitan Reservoir and parts of the San diego river. About mid video there is a scene of some buildings just downstream of the dam that have been long gone. The last old buildings to stand in that area were burned in the Ceder Fire in 2003.

VAN OMMERING HARVESTING OATS IN EL MONTE

Robert Van Ommering and Art Flores harvesting oats for the Van Ommering Dairy in the El Monte valley 4/19/2012

BUCK HOWDY

Singing buffalo Bob

LAKESIDE CA. 1910

Lakeside Ca. Video made from a photo at Lakeside Fire Station #2 Music by Edna Kouns

FOSTER CALIFORNIA

This video was made in the Lakeside Library . Above the drinking fountain there is a photo of Foster Ca. Thank you LL

MUSSY GRADE ROAD

New info became availible about who owend the house where the rock chimney stands. George Sneed was his name, His homestead was in the San Vicente Valley, he farmed here till 1936. I made a trip down Mussy Grade road to get a last look at this old cobblestone chimney that George Sneed made. Back in those days it was all they had to keep warm in the winters, more than likely his family also used it for cooking. In the video I make mention that not much is known of this man and I did not know his name till I found a history piece on the San Diego County Water Authority website http://www.sdcwa.org/san-vicente-dam-raise In a few short years the SV Dam Raise Project will be completed the water level will be raised at least 100 feet higher than it was previous to the project start date. The chimney will be submerged for ever . There is also a legend that some buildings are underwater close to the dam but SDCWA says there is not. watch video here- http://youtu.be/HCzPzI3kSpM This is the old road that Highway 67 replaced (Mussy Grade ) has all but vanished under the waters of the San Vicente Reservoir. If not for Ramona Ca. the road would have been completely covered over by the wilderness. Moreno Ave at one time connected to this road at the long gone town of Foster 5 miles north of Downtown Lakeside Ca. Long before cars hit this road it was horse drawn wagons that traveled this road into the high country of Ramona and Julian Santa Isabel and beyond into the desert. Then the railroad came to Foster but still from Foster it was horse drawn wagons. Car became an easier way to travel so the road was modernized with concrete. In the early 40's The City of San Diego took advantage of the deep rock canyons and built a Dam at the gorge just a 100 feet from the town of Foster displacing Cumeeyay Indians from the area as well. Some say the waters flooded over some buildings that remained upstream of the dam but SDCWA will not admit that there are building underwater. 2 things f

LAKESIDE WOMENS CLUB "QUILT SHOW" MARCH 10, 2012 It was March 1910, that Mrs Mary Ross decided to assist the advancement of civic and social interests in Lakeside ca.. Inviting some of her friends to her home, she formed the "Women's Club of Lakeside. Mrs Ross was elected first president. The Clubs first project was held in 1911 when they assisted in the building of the Town hall ( later to become the Lakeside Theatre) Collecting $200.00 from the owner of the Lakeside Inn (John Gay) to buy the lot, Dances and dinners were given to raise funds for the building materials. From the Legends of Lakeside book. http://www.americantowns.com/ca/lakeside/organization/woman-s-club-of-lakeside http://www.lakesidehistory.org/

LOS COCHES CREEK DAM

Circa 1887, It is believed that the builders of the Lakeside Inn constructed this 5 foot wide 150 foot long and 25-30 foot tall Dam to supply irrigation water the grounds at the Inn. Constructed In the Los Coches Creek It was a favorite place to ride horses too as shown in the video of a women in 1900 on her horse in front of the dam. Some folks have told me that as children they frequently visited the dam. Water runs in the creek year around and gently rolls over the spillway, in the winter after a good storm you can hear the roar of the water spilling over the dam clear to Los Coches RD. The Dam stands as a testament to the builders precision and quality and care of building this very sturdy dam, it has withstood the test of time and many a flood. Exact location must remain concealed but we hope you enjoy this wonderful Lakeside Historical Landmark video. Thank you Pami Wilmers for helping us rediscover the Dam. LHS

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