Mentone-Crafton-Greenspot Chronicles

04/04/2026

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Looking east at Hotel Mentone and Mentone Community Church, both constructed in the early 1890s on what is now Mentone Boulevard. The hotel became a tuberculosis sanitarium and was torn down in 1920. The church was razed in 1957. Courtesy Archives, A.K. Smiley Public Library.

04/04/2026

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Croquet anyone? Players at the Mentone Hotel are seen here in the early 1890s. Courtesy Archives, A.K. Smiley Public Library.

04/02/2026

Fishing on the Zanja between W. Sliger Road & Mountain View Lane, 1964.