Remember When

80 YEARS AGO.....1930

Residents of Blairsden are planning the formation of a corporation and the selling of stock to secure funds with which to erect a hotel consisting of 20 to 30 rooms to replace the Blairsden Hotel, destroyed by fire weeks ago.

Read more: Remember When for the week of 9/1/2010

 80 YEARS AGO.....1930
    Fire of unknown origin Friday night destroyed an office railroad car and its furnishings and contents owned by the contractors regraveling and reballisting the Western Pacific Railroad track between Spring Garden and Quincy Junction.
    A small fire was found Monday afternoon in the logging area of the California Fruit Exchange in Graeagle which burned one and half acres. Another fire burned about two acres on Sunday, south of Canyon Dam.

Read more: Remember When for the week of 8/25/2010

80 YEARS AGO.....1930
    Arrangements have been perfected between the Indian Valley Railroad Company and the United States Postal Service whereby the railroad company will transport mail between Paxton and Crescent Mills for all Indian Valley points.
    Items from the annual report of the Plumas County Free Library submitted to the Plumas County Board of Supervisors this week gives the number of registered borrowers in Plumas County as 4756 and the number of volumes in the Plumas County Library system as 39,230.

Read more: Remember When for the week of 8/18/2010

80 YEARS AGO... 1930
California's record of progress since its admission to the Union 80 years ago will be strikingly portrayed at the California State Fair which opens this week. The sate fair's theme "80 Years of Progress" was selected to commemorate the milestone.

Read more: Remember When for the week of 8/11/2010