Remember when, from the archives, April 7, 1950: Agua Caliente Springs Hotel has changed hands

65 YEARS AGO (From the Index-Tribune of April 7, 1950)|

65 YEARS AGO

(From the Index-Tribune of April 7, 1950)

The Agua Caliente Springs Hotel has been sold to Jack Benjamin and Betty Ramus of San Francisco, it was announced yesterday. The new proprietors will open for business on Monday, April 10, and will feature full-course dinners. The “Cactus Room” cocktail lounge will likewise be open, serving favorite beverages. Mr. Benjamin is an experienced businessman, having operated several restaurants and bars in San Francisco, including the El Gaucho, Florentine and popular Avenue Club. ... Sonoma Valley’s proposed new $25,000 athletic field will be named in memory of the late General H. H. “Hap” Arnold. This was learned yesterday as the ninth week of the field bond drive came to an end with a total of $16,070 collected. ... The Twin Falls baseball team of the Pioneer League will play its final game of the spring training season as a benefit for the Rudy Lichtenberg Memorial Fund, meeting the leading semi-pro Lucky Lager team of Oakland on Sunday, April 23 at Boyes Hot Spring. ... “Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the Bunny Trail!” That’s what Sonoma Valley children are singing today as they eagerly await the arrival of Mr. Easter Bunny on Saturday afternoon at the Sonoma Plaza - when the annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held. The Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley, in cooperation with new 20-30 Club are sponsoring the 1 p.m. egg hunt. Volunteers will color 2,160 eggs. Ten rabbits will be given as will 100 baby chickens donated by the Wilson Hatchery. ... Kate Sullivan, pioneer policewoman, acclaimed as one of the most vivid personalities in California, will give a lecture at the Sonoma Valley Union High School. The Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sonoma Valley are bringing her to Sonoma as a public service and admission will be free.

64 YEARS AGO

(From the Index-Tribune of April 6, 1951)

Ownership of the Adobe Drug store, West First Street, Sonoma, on Sunday, April 1, passed to Ray S. Duer, formerly of Chico. Duer, who has had the pharmacy open for business since Sunday, has a background of over 20 years as a druggist, and was in business in Chico for all of that time. The Adobe Drug is located in the famous old Salvador Vallejo adobe structure next to the El Dorado Hotel, and I owned by Mr. and Mrs. John West of San Francisco. ... Tomorrow night is the evening you promised to take the Mrs. or your best girl to the annual Firemen’s Ball, sponsored by the Sonoma Volunteer Fire Department. The always looked-forward-to event takes place at Sebastiani Hall, with Ralph Rawson’s popular North Bay band furnishing the music. ... Two Sonoma Valley firms will hold formal openings in their new locations tomorrow, April 7. They are the new Lewis J. Colby insurance offices in the pioneer Emparan Building, West First Street; and the Woods-Franquelin real estate and insurance office in the new Sonoma Post Office building on Spain Street. ... Grading operations were being completed this week at the Clerici-Mancuso Hillsview Tract in Sonoma for 16 more new homes by C. M. Brown, Healdsburg building contractor. Fourteen have three bedrooms, the others, two. ... Navy personnel at the Skaggs Island Naval Radio Station on Monday donated 79 pints of blood for overseas shipment when the Sonoma County Community Blood Bank, working in association with the Red Cross Blood Procurement Program, made its scheduled visit here. The overwhelming response of the officers and enlisted personnel, alike, gave the traveling unit one of the most successful weeks in its history.

63 YEARS AGO

(From the Index-Tribune of April 4, 1952)

Approximately 1,200 city residents will be eligible to cast votes at next Tuesday’s election, with polls to be opened from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the firehouse on Patten Street. Voters will choose two City Councilmen from six candidates (five men and one woman) on the ballot; a city clerk and city treasurer; and will vote for or against a bond issue in the amount of $73,000 for the repair of all city streets. ... At the regular monthly meeting of the Sonoma City Council on Wednesday night, the trustees learned that considerable progress has been made on the new house-numbering program. Councilman August Pinelli revealed that with only few exceptions, all streets running north and south had been assigned numbers and the residents so notified. Designation of house numbers on Broadway is under way at this time, Pinelli revealed. ... Mr. and Mrs. David King and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Weller enjoyed a Saturday and Sunday motor trip to Grass Valley, Nevada City and way points, getting a good look at the snow-covered mountain ranges. ... At an election of officers for the Sonoma City Planning Commission at its Thursday, March 27 meeting, Mrs. Tom Vella was chosen as the new chairman and Oliver Maffei, vice chairman. The posts were formerly held by John F. Picetti and Edna Cooper. ... A “Vintage Fandango,” featuring barn dance, entertainment and refreshments from a chuck wagon, will take place Friday night, April 25 at Paul’s Resort as first of a series of pre-Vintage Festival events. This was the announcement made yesterday following a series of directors’ meetings presided over by Vintage Festival Association president Howard Blank at his business office in the Blue Wing Inn.

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