Flashbacks

Fourth of July Will Be Honored in Healdsburg. Partial Program of the Literary Exercises and Events for the Day, and more archival news from the Healdsburg Tribune.

The docents of the Healdsburg Museum dig into back issues of The Healdsburg Tribune to find stories from 50, 75 and 100 years ago...

Although many prune picking devices have been invented, some put on the market, others stored away in someone’s garage, the machine demonstrated this week by inventor William Leighton, Healdsburg, promises to effect radical changes in the prune picking process. ...

One of Healdsburg's signature wineries, Simi was sold in 1976, not for the first time, and it has been sold several times since.

The Healdsburg Intra-City Bus System is expected to begin carrying its first passengers on March 3, City Manager James Stanfield has announced. The new city mini-bus, which can carry 15 passengers, will operate each weekday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., making five complete circuits of the residential districts within the city. Fares have been set at 25-cents, with a reduced price of 10-cents for the elderly and handicapped.

100 years ago – October 9, 1924 DAM COMING DOWN AS RAIN ARRIVES With the welcome opening of the rainy season, Lake Sotoyome is, figuratively speaking, to be folded up and put away until next summer. The new dam, construction of which was completed late in...

Residents of the Healdsburg area who have not as yet acknowledged receipt of the 1949 Christmas Seal Sale letters should do so promptly, W. L. Cook, president of the Sonoma County Tuberculosis and Health Association, urges...this and more news curated from back issues of the Healdsburg Tribune.

One of the girls who was a principal in the gangster assault case in San Francisco just five years ago has written a letter which has been turned over to the state board of prison directors, in which she admits that she falsely testified in a 1920 assault trial that led to lynching of three men...

100 years ago December 11, 1924 'SHOPPERS FOR CHRISTMAS FILL LOCAL STORES' A journey to the various stores in Healdsburg shows a very complete line of all kinds of articles which are suitable for Christmas presents. The merchants of this city report Christmas buying in full swing....

The first robbery occurred in April, just after a big slaughtering had been completed. The hearts, lights, lungs, and other meat taken from carcasses, considered in butcher parlance as “offal” together with one or two tools, disappeared. A few weeks later, immediately after another butchering, the same thing was repeated.