Category: History

Ventura County Opening Day was a record-setter — in 1892

Click below to read the entire story from Ojai Magazine on ISSUU.https://issuu.com/ojaivisitorsguide/docs/ojai_magazine_winter_2021/92?fbclid=IwAR3NDMYkg88uPa3YOrayhE0qCJ8gDFRgtg5L3Gtv7bpIAm1ntKil50qGK8U

Listen to oral histories from the LA River

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Thanks to presenter Tilly Hinton for including me in this talk at Creative Neighbors at Frogtown Brewery in September 2019. I hope the river speaks to all of you as well.

See you on the river, Jim Burns

A look back: LA River circa 1904

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SQUINT YOUR EYES and you might be looking at sections of the river today — except for the buggy in the background!