Mark Read/Pages From The Past
100 Years Ago
June 1922
– Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Winn are now occupying the Verissimo house in back of the Community House.
– $7,500 buys my beautiful 5-acre ranch and nearly new 6-room cottage, all modern conveniences in house; ranch set out to fruit trees; several are bearing; chicken house; tractor and tools; inexhaustible well, with pump and tank; $3,000 down, balance like rent. Mr. Bowman.
– The marriage of Miss Franceline Lourenzo and John DeRosa, driver of the Geo. S. Jones Auto Stage, took place Saturday afternoon at St. Raphael’s, church, in San Rafael. After the honeymoon which will be spent at Boyes Springs, the young couple will return here to reside in one of the T. A. White bungalows.
– Tony DeBorba has opened a soft drink parlor, ice cream, etc., at the corner at the intersection of the Highway in the house formerly used as a Real Estate office by Mr. Anderson.
75 Years Ago
June 1947
– Novato Sanitary District No. 6 is the first in Marin County to have a permit to build a $130,000 collection and treatment unit for sewage disposal. The first such in Marin County as all previous permits were rescinded March 11, 1945. $50,000 was granted by the board of supervisors and $80,000 raised by bonds.
– Major and Mrs. Meredith Wilson threw open their home on Lamonte Avenue for the graduation party given by eight graders for the graduation class. The rooms were decorated with balloons, colored streamers and flowers. Twenty-seven of the 30 graduates with their guests enjoyed dancing, followed by refreshments. A highlight was the big cake, inscribed “To the class of 1947.”
– The third annual Novato horse show under sponsorship of the Novato Horsemen, Inc., on Sunday, June 15, was a successful affair. The parade, proceeding the show, drew applause all along the line of march.
50 Years Ago
June 1972
– Personal possessions were checked for unauthorized items when 132 Novato High seniors boarded buses Thursday afternoon for a trip to Disneyland. Despite rain, reportedly the first in Anaheim in June in 20 years, the Novatans, along with seniors from other areas, were guests at the park from 11 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday. The previous week 50 San Marin High seniors took advantage of Disneyland’s annual graduation special. While the Novato High students traveled by bus, San Marin flew to Disneyland and back.
– City planning commissioners were shown Monday a map on how to keep the population of Novato at 70,000 In the year 1980. It was shown by Mark Westfall, advance planner in the city’s planning department, at a second meeting devoted to revising the city’s master plan. It was a preliminary land use map with finished map to be unveiled at a July 3 meeting. The map showed where land reserved for open space whether through agricultural preserve designation, easements, or acquisition as parks; falling into the extensive flood mud plain; lying along the active Mt. Burdell fault; on hillsides with a 40 per cent or more slope or above the 200-foot elevation; or within the unacceptable high noise Impact area surrounding Hamilton Air Force Base, had been removed as developable.
– Officers and directors of the Novato Chamber of Commerce will be seated for the 1972-73 year at an installation dinner Friday at the San Marin Club. Phillip Coady, local mutual fund representative, Is scheduled to take over the Chamber presidency from Ned Dean, who will remain on the board as immediate past president. Other officers to be installed are Gordon Lee, first vice president; Skip Fenner, second vice president; and Charles Lewis, treasurer.
25 Years Ago
June 1997
– A decade after the original concept was articulated, the Buck Center for Research in Aging is about to become a reality. The frames for the center’s first phase, a research and administration building and a laboratory, totaling 185,000 square feet, are in place. Construction on the $60 million project on the slopes of Mt. Burdell is expected to be completed by July or August of 1998. Additional phases of the development, including housing units for employees will be built as needed.
– Novato gave a block party for 80,000 of its closest friends and neighbors last weekend. By all measures—crowd, proceeds, satisfaction—the 15th annual Novato Festival of Art, Wine and Music, hosted by the Novato Chamber of Commerce, was the biggest and best ever.
– Frankie Lou Glazner of Novato, a wife, mother, businesswoman and a member of the Creek Indian Nation, died June 21, 1997. Mrs. Glazner, who with her husband owned and operated Novato Florist from 1980 to 1991, was 65 years old.
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