Mark Reed/Pages From The Past
100 Years Ago
June 1922
– LINDSAY CANDIDATE FOR NOVATO JUSTICESHIP. John E. Lindsay, for ten years a resident of Novato, keenly interested and versed in civic work, and admitted to the practice of law. is a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace in Novato Township.
Lindsay has had many years’ experiences in newspaper work and in that vocation, he has availed himself on unlimited opportunities to study human nature. After his admittance to the practice of law he enlisted in the army and served throughout the Spanish-American war.
Lindsay is the possessor of a handsome gold watch, appropriately engraved, which was presented to him by Mayor Rolph and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as an attestation of their high regard for him upon his retirement from newspaper work in San Francisco. During his residence in Novato, he has interested himself actively in civic affairs and is now a director of the Farm Bureaus there, where he resides on a small ranch with Mrs. Lindsay.
75 Years Ago
June 1947
– Lou Simon and J.S. Roberts have organized a Boys’ club with 12 charter members. Meetings are held on Monday and Friday evenings at the Roberts home on Redwood Highway. The group spends two hours of each meeting studying automotive engineering and is at present working on parts of an old automobile. Plans are underway for a rifle range. The boys have been busy choosing a club name and electing officers.
– The last graduation in the Black Point school house on H Lane at the point was held. Paul Qualey, gave the history of the school from 1897 to June 1947. With the singing of Auld Lang Syne by the class and the audience the last graduation in the old school building ended. Pupils of the Black Point school district which has been unionized with the Novato school district will probably come to Novato for the next school term opening in September.
– Marin Dell milk truck and the car driven by Bob Simonds, with a girl companion, met in a head-on collision. Simonds was knocked unconscious and taken by his mother, Mrs. Walter Simonds Jr., to the hospital, where he was treated for a cut on the head and shock. The bright sunshine on Bob’s windshield blinded him, it was stated, so that he did not see the approaching truck, which tried to avoid the collision. Nobody else was hurt, although the car was a wreck.
50 Years Ago
June 1972
– A number of barber shops in Marin County, including two in Novato, have broken away from the Barber’s Local 582 in what amounts to a philosophical dispute on hair length. Joseph Tozzi, owner of the Hair Care Hut, 1602 Grant Avenue, resigned as president of the local last week and joined the splinter group. The barbers’ contract will soon be up and, according to Tozzi, two-thirds of the Local voted to turn down a new contract calling for the same old hours. Currently they are working under a 1967 contract.
– The 365-acre Nunes Dairy Ranch, lying beyond San Marin East along the flank of Mt. Burdell was reported to be under option to the McKeon Construction Co. McKeon is the developer of the quadruped apartments on the Crossroads property near the Highway 101-37 interchange. Reportedly the Nunes property, if the sale materializes, would be developed in quadrupeds and single-family homes. McKeon is headquartered in Sacramento.
– Some 17 acres are to be added to Stafford Lake Park as a result of action taken by the county board of supervisors last week. The board authorized for $70,000 the purchase of land stretching along Novato Boulevard east of the lake and adjacent to Lions Park. The county earlier wanted to buy only part of the property in order to run a bike path to Stafford Lake. But the owner, Clarence Leveroni, refused to deal, saying that he would only sell his property en toto.
25 Years Ago
June 1997
– A celebration recently held before the new Main Gate symbolized the transfer of a portion of Hamilton Field from military to civilian ownership. The rededication of the Main Gate included the developing New Hamilton Partners giving the Hamilton Real Estate Co. the key to the community which ultimately will consist of 900 new homes, new jobs and 800 acres of recreational and open space. The celebration marked the culmination of efforts of the City of Novato, New Hamilton Partners and the people of Novato to successfully resolve the 20-year debate of disposition of the surplus former Air Force Base.
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