Lived in Huntington Beach during the early 70s and went to Catalina nearly every weekend during the summers, as it was a just 26-29 miles out of Long Beach Harbor and anybody w/ a boat and the desire could get to the island in as little as half an hour by speed boat and about an hour and a half by cruiser. Avalon Bay was THE destination and the big attraction for me was the turnstyle where the seaplanes would land and unload passengers, turn about and take folk back to the mainland. After achieving my private pilot's license I would gleefully make the short fllight as often as my father would allow. Took my high school sweetheart there for our Prom Night dinner and a late night flight over Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Now adays, that area is completely impacted w/ an overburdened suberbia and getting anywhere takes an hour or more due to traffic congestion.
@@williambarry8015 In 1966 while visiting my relatives, my cousins took me to Avalon on a Catalina Airlines Grumman Goose. What a great trip for an east coast kid. First water landing and takeoff I'd ever experienced. I was able to snap a picture with my old camera of the Sikorsky VS-44 'taxiing' out of the harbor for takeoff while waiting for our Goose and return flight - impressive sight. Had a great time in a small boat trolling the shoreline in beautiful water but came home with too much abalone in my suitcase.
Awesome comment v.e.7236! Had family up and down that stretch of coastal beaches with my grandparents living in Corona Del Mar and cousins in Newport Beach! Went to Huntington Beach many times to surf just to mix up the scenery! I too have been to Catalina Island myself numerous times. The one time that stood out was riding back on the rented boat we had as we listened to then President Nixon officially resign his office. One of the running jokes heard was that on a clear day (no smog or fog) one could see Catalina Island while still being able to smell the Butt Of The Queen Mary docked in Long Beach! 🤣 MOO From COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
I came down from the Bay Area (north of San Francisco) in 2001 with my car club for a car convention in Long Beach. Several of my friends and I took an afternoon boat tour to Catalina and a bus tour of the island, that was included. The bus turned around out at the air strip and we stopped there at the restaurant for a break. I made a couple of phone calls from the parking area since I had some signal on my phone. An older fellow near me wasn't having much luck since he couldn't get a signal. I offered him my phone so he could make his call. We talked a bit when he finished and to my surprise he was Bob Bondurant, the race driver and business man. We kept in contact occasionally after that, when we invited him to join us as the guest speaker at our Car Club Events. That Catalina Island tour turned out to be much more significant than I expected.
My mom ( Ramona Rodriguez) was born on the island in 1930! and lived there until she went to college . My grandparents moved to the island in 1918. My grandfather ( They called him Hercules for his strength) was a pipe fitter for the city. My grandmother ( Josie or Josephine) worked at the golf course. We lived on the island with them briefly in 1969. That place holds a special place in my heart! We went back to visit in 2023 and were greatly surprised to see …LOLO Saldana still cutting hair! He lived next door to my mom growing up and he remembered her instantly once we identified ourselves as her children.
I have visited Catalina Island many many times, often staying for a week during the summer times. I was not aware of this disaster. Thank you History Guy !
I came across this channel a little over a month ago. And have become addicted since. The narrator reminds me of another great orator that i was hooked on listening to since I was quite young until my late thirties when he passed. I keep waiting for Mr Geiger to say(and this is the rest of the story). Thank you, Mr Geiger
I remember Duke from the early '70s when I would go to Catalina as a kid. I spent a lot of time in the Penny Arcade or checking out the sharks at the pier when the horn blew.
My daughter and I visited in 2019. While hiking, we were startled by small deer that are descendants of those brought by the wrigleys for hunting. There are also buffalo further inland. Went during winter, so we missed the flying fish. Only wish I had more time to explore the place. I seem to recall an abandoned avaiary. Quite an interesting place.
Interesting story. Thanks for doing it. Santa Catalina is a great place to visit. My wife and I stayed at the Hamilton Cove condos just north of Avalon. When you are on the island you feel like you are in another country. At Hamilton Cove you feel like you are on a Greek island. One thing that most people don't know is that the island has a large population of feral cats. When we were driving our golfing cart from Avalon to Hamilton Cove at night there were about 50 cats sitting on rocks watching us drive by. Very creepy.
This episode is the History Guy at his best. In the short-attention-span-theatre life we now live in (thank you, Internet), anything longer ago than last week is not only ignored, but rather it was never noticed to begin with. Thank you Lance, for what you do! (Queue the "Wildflowers" ending music theme now.) 😜☺😉
Been to Avalon on Catalina Island a couple of times. Absolutely loved it. The town is quite compact, so an uncontrolled fire could very easily spread through the (relatively) small area of buildings. Obviously, seeing that the 1915 fire has been, more or less, the only major fire incident since the island city's incorporation, fire prevention measures are well implemented throughout. All that aside, when you are at Santa Catalina Island, you truly are transported to a place very separate in not only space (away from the mainland,) but also, seemingly, of time.
We actually had another major fire back in 2007. A welder’s neglect on the interior of the island. Massive brush fire got scary close to Avalon. 1 home destroyed and 4 businesses damaged. Many eucalyptus remain charred to this day.
@@marcusmarron6113 wow, obviously I wasn't aware of that one, but then again, I may have heard about it around the time that it happened (via news media since I've lived in Southern California since 1991) but then I subsequently forgot about it. I can imagine that any size fire is a major threat on the island. Thanks for the info. I do hope I can visit the island again someday. It'd be nice to be able to stay for more than just a few hours of a day, but it seems that you'd know a lot more about how that is. lol.
@JesseOaks-ef9xn , I'm not really a jazz fan but I am familiar with Lionel Hampton (for those who aren't familiar with him, he played the Vibraphone); I saw him play at a free concert once back in the 1980s. I don't recall that song however. (PS, speaking of the Vibraphone, I'm actually a big Frank Zappa fan; Vibraphonist and percussionist Ruth Underwood was a major contributor to his music).
Took fishing charters through the Santa Cruz Island’s twice. Both experiences were excellent. I caught barracuda, snapper and ling cod that looked like massive props from a Tim Burton movie
The first time we stayed on Catalina we stayed at the Inn on Mt. Ada, which is the old Wrigley mansion (beautiful house! Wrigley's old office is preserved intact, along with the telescope he used to watch the Cubs spring training. If he didn't think they were trying hard enough, they had to run from the practice field to the house, up and down gullys and through brush!). All that time, we were never told how Mr. Wrigley acquired the island, just that he owned it. Quite interesting!
@d.b.1176 at one point we shipped a small glass truck over on barge to haul Materials up the hills..barge was expensive...truck was massive there 😆...and it was exploited by other trades while there
It’s a great place to visit if you want to find some interesting history beyond this fire. But you better go soon because there are still very old residents that seem to remember a lot of it first hand and they will not last forever. Always great to stop in to Lola’s barbershop, he’s 94 or 95 and still goes into the shop everyday to cut a few ears. A lot 0f history. And of course, The museum is always a good place to drop in for a while.
My first airplane flight was on a sea plane from Long Beach to Avalon in 1962 where we took a ride on a glass bottom boat and drove around on the island in a rented electric car.
One of my favorite getaways, tho I havent been for a long time. I always enjoy the boat ride over with many dolphin and flying fish sightings, maybe even a whale. The tribal name for the island is Pimu
What a great watch.... My dad's side has lived/fished in the San Pedro area since 1905, many stories of Catalina have been passed down and this was one of them. How about a vid on the Bird Farm or the history of the Casino... Thanks for posting.
I have old photos of my great grandparents and grandparents at the beach in Avalon. It is dated to something like 1915-1925. I have to look for it to know for sure.
Timm's landing? I didn't know that there was a second one on Catalina. Early maps of San Pedro , or LA harbor, (which is closer to Avalon than Long Beach) show a Timm's landing, which was one of few places in that part of the early port where boats could offload their cargo.
Love your channel. Just noticed the 918th bomb group toby jug on the top shelf of the cabinet behind you. I love that. Have you done any episodes relating to 12 O' clock High?
You could do a video about the fires, plural, in Orchard Beach, Maine. I was there on the day of one of them, around 1969 or 70. I believe there have been 4 major fires at that resort town
I live in Missouri now, but, unfortunately, California has had many fires. But, this is the first time I've heard of the Islands ever having a fire storm. I used to live about an hour North of Santa Barbara. The Ancient Chumash Natives used to make log canoes and ride out to the Islands for special ceremonies. But, they lived on the mainland.
There was also another less serious fire about 15 - 16 years ago that was started by a welder near the KBRT radio tower and burned south toward Avalon. It took out most of the buildings in Falls Canyon area of Avalon before being stopped. There are now fire breaks that are maintained near town. An oddly pleasant place to live and visit. Happy to called it home for a portion of my life and to still have many friends that live there.
It happened on Mexican Mother’s Day of 2007. I was heading back to school from lunch break when I first saw the smoke cloud. Later, the fire had spread and it snowed ash. Many people evacuated the island. Avalon was close to burning down again. Some very surreal moments. Firefighters did great and rescued our town.
Visited the island while on a family vacation. Everything is shipped in on containers and they have a waiting list for residential vehicles to be shipped that was at that time, well over a year. Instead, islanders used golf carts. To such a great extent that they often pimped them up like show cars and even LA County Sheriff Deputies had their golf carts dressed up with tiny light bars. The Wriggly Mansion served breakfast for those who could afford it, (we could not😂). Lots of scrub trees, cactus and deer on land and kelp in the water. Good to visit, I’d not want to live there. 😊
I knew a LACSD who lived there as a Deputy with his K9 and he used to walk with John Wayne on the beach after every one went to sleep and he would also play cards with him on his converted navy mine sweeper that he lived on. His name was Edgar Evans.
Gotta say your channel is quite wonderful. It reminds me of the much, though short lived, tv show narrated by the iconic George "Dr George" Fischbeck, known as Disaster: How and Why. Who was best know as the weatherman for KABC7 Eyewitness News Los Angeles. Thank you.
In 1965, I was overseas in uniform, rifle in hand. Nonstop airships flying overhead to the conflict center. For Johnson escalated the war. I witnessed that air mobilization. I was on Catalina Island, in the boyscouts at the firing range. The planes I assumed were coming from Camp Penalton.. possibly El Toro helicopters inside those pregnant looking airships. Speaking of airplanes, Did you know John Wayne Airport has discounted parking... Now you know the rest of the story.
Some people don't know where to shop. I'm looking at 160 acres with a spring and a river against one side and forest on the other. Views of the mountains and valley for miles
Santa Catalina, also known as Santa Caliente, is Old Saint Nick's younger cooler South American stepbrother. Mrs. Clause made the naughty list. Santa was not pleased.😅 By the way. Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving History Guy.
@ yes. That is a model of the Spanish training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano. Juan Sebastián de Elcano - Explorer and Ship ua-cam.com/video/wFjYiXRINKo/v-deo.html
Love the history but the thumbnail choice is quite peculiar...reminds me of the meme of the girl smiling while the house burns in the background. Although I'm certain no deviousness occurred here lol
Interesting video. Your pronunciation of the island's name sounds quite odd to me, a SoCal native who's been there many times. I think you're hitting the consonants a bit too hard.
My friends college aged child is on Catalina right now. Looking for the thousands of giants buried there. 7' - 8' tall it's scary to realize how much of our nations. No our world history has been suppressed!💯
Way higher # than 2.0, unfortunately. The powers that (are soon not to) be have been doing this sort of thing for well over two centuries on this continent. Just take a look at some of the cities that were "bombarded" during the civil war, or look into the great Chicago fire and the other lesser known fires from that day, the San Francisco fire....or pretty much every other small town to major city who suffered their own "great fire" during the period between 1890-1920. Most all of them are "explained away" by some ridiculous story which often lacks any or all logic. Nope, they've been doing this for a long time, and they've been getting away with it but all things done in the dark shall be and are being brought into light.
Lived in Huntington Beach during the early 70s and went to Catalina nearly every weekend during the summers, as it was a just 26-29 miles out of Long Beach Harbor and anybody w/ a boat and the desire could get to the island in as little as half an hour by speed boat and about an hour and a half by cruiser. Avalon Bay was THE destination and the big attraction for me was the turnstyle where the seaplanes would land and unload passengers, turn about and take folk back to the mainland. After achieving my private pilot's license I would gleefully make the short fllight as often as my father would allow. Took my high school sweetheart there for our Prom Night dinner and a late night flight over Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Now adays, that area is completely impacted w/ an overburdened suberbia and getting anywhere takes an hour or more due to traffic congestion.
You can apply that last statement to most of Utah, Idaho, and Montana.
I just did an internet search of Avalon Air Transport Sikorsky VS44. Its a INTERESTING STory.
@@williambarry8015 In 1966 while visiting my relatives, my cousins took me to Avalon on a Catalina Airlines Grumman Goose. What a great trip for an east coast kid. First water landing and takeoff I'd ever experienced. I was able to snap a picture with my old camera of the Sikorsky VS-44 'taxiing' out of the harbor for takeoff while waiting for our Goose and return flight - impressive sight. Had a great time in a small boat trolling the shoreline in beautiful water but came home with too much abalone in my suitcase.
Awesome comment v.e.7236! Had family up and down that stretch of coastal beaches with my grandparents living in Corona Del Mar and cousins in Newport Beach! Went to Huntington Beach many times to surf just to mix up the scenery! I too have been to Catalina Island myself numerous times. The one time that stood out was riding back on the rented boat we had as we listened to then President Nixon officially resign his office. One of the running jokes heard was that on a clear day (no smog or fog) one could see Catalina Island while still being able to smell the Butt Of The Queen Mary docked in Long Beach! 🤣 MOO From COW-lumbus, Ohio 👋
@@williambarry8015 Have a picture of it heading away from the dock - was there in 1966 and flew to/from Long Beach on a Grumman Goose.
I came down from the Bay Area (north of San Francisco) in 2001 with my car club for a car convention in Long Beach. Several of my friends and I took an afternoon boat tour to Catalina and a bus tour of the island, that was included. The bus turned around out at the air strip and we stopped there at the restaurant for a break. I made a couple of phone calls from the parking area since I had some signal on my phone. An older fellow near me wasn't having much luck since he couldn't get a signal. I offered him my phone so he could make his call. We talked a bit when he finished and to my surprise he was Bob Bondurant, the race driver and business man. We kept in contact occasionally after that, when we invited him to join us as the guest speaker at our Car Club Events. That Catalina Island tour turned out to be much more significant than I expected.
Our family has had 3 generations that lived on catalina Island from the early 1900 to 1980s. Thanks for sharing, and have a wonderful day
Got B/W pics of LB earth quake from Granny Honey, Evlin when it looked like Berlin in WWII
My mom ( Ramona Rodriguez) was born on the island in 1930! and lived there until she went to college . My grandparents moved to the island in 1918. My grandfather ( They called him Hercules for his strength) was a pipe fitter for the city. My grandmother ( Josie or Josephine) worked at the golf course. We lived on the island with them briefly in 1969. That place holds a special place in my heart! We went back to visit in 2023 and were greatly surprised to see …LOLO Saldana still cutting hair! He lived next door to my mom growing up and he remembered her instantly once we identified ourselves as her children.
I have visited Catalina Island many many times, often staying for a week during the summer times. I was not aware of this disaster. Thank you History Guy !
I came across this channel a little over a month ago. And have become addicted since. The narrator reminds me of another great orator that i was hooked on listening to since I was quite young until my late thirties when he passed. I keep waiting for Mr Geiger to say(and this is the rest of the story). Thank you, Mr Geiger
Thank you! Paul Harvey was a great inspiration in my life.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel That is obvious. But I trust your family treats you better!
Duke of Catalina is a person who’s history deserves to be remembered. He is a fascinating and colorful character of Catalina Island.
I remember Duke from the early '70s when I would go to Catalina as a kid. I spent a lot of time in the Penny Arcade or checking out the sharks at the pier when the horn blew.
I saw him there a couple times as a boy. Maybe 1972. Very tan, gold earring and same height as me .
@@irishcherokee8884 Yep. He looked like a shorter Mr. Clean.
My mom's mother took me over for the first time I 1971. I saw the Duke. I remember how tan he was. His earring. He looked like Mr. Clean.
Mr Clean. I met him once. My dad knew him very well.
I grew up in Long Beach. I lived in Avalon and worked for United Airlines in the summer of 1954. I was just out of high school at the time.🙂🙂
Always a great day when an episode comes out on this channel!
Excellent video, HG ! SoCal native here; been to Avalon several times. Fascinating peek into the early days of “ Wriggly towne “.
26 miles across the sea
Santa Catalina is a-waiting for me
Santa Catalina, the island of
Romance, romance, romance, romance
My daughter and I visited in 2019. While hiking, we were startled by small deer that are descendants of those brought by the wrigleys for hunting. There are also buffalo further inland. Went during winter, so we missed the flying fish. Only wish I had more time to explore the place. I seem to recall an abandoned avaiary. Quite an interesting place.
I have been to Catalina at least a thousand times. What a wonderful place and so many memories for me.
Interesting story. Thanks for doing it. Santa Catalina is a great place to visit. My wife and I stayed at the Hamilton Cove condos just north of Avalon. When you are on the island you feel like you are in another country. At Hamilton Cove you feel like you are on a Greek island. One thing that most people don't know is that the island has a large population of feral cats. When we were driving our golfing cart from Avalon to Hamilton Cove at night there were about 50 cats sitting on rocks watching us drive by. Very creepy.
This episode is the History Guy at his best. In the short-attention-span-theatre life we now live in (thank you, Internet), anything longer ago than last week is not only ignored, but rather it was never noticed to begin with. Thank you Lance, for what you do! (Queue the "Wildflowers" ending music theme now.) 😜☺😉
Been to Avalon on Catalina Island a couple of times. Absolutely loved it. The town is quite compact, so an uncontrolled fire could very easily spread through the (relatively) small area of buildings. Obviously, seeing that the 1915 fire has been, more or less, the only major fire incident since the island city's incorporation, fire prevention measures are well implemented throughout. All that aside, when you are at Santa Catalina Island, you truly are transported to a place very separate in not only space (away from the mainland,) but also, seemingly, of time.
We actually had another major fire back in 2007. A welder’s neglect on the interior of the island. Massive brush fire got scary close to Avalon. 1 home destroyed and 4 businesses damaged. Many eucalyptus remain charred to this day.
@@marcusmarron6113 wow, obviously I wasn't aware of that one, but then again, I may have heard about it around the time that it happened (via news media since I've lived in Southern California since 1991) but then I subsequently forgot about it. I can imagine that any size fire is a major threat on the island. Thanks for the info. I do hope I can visit the island again someday. It'd be nice to be able to stay for more than just a few hours of a day, but it seems that you'd know a lot more about how that is. lol.
As a fellow South Dakotan I’m interested in bison and have heard about the buffalo of Catalina but didn’t know where that was until now thank you sir
Brought there for a movie shoot in 1924.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
THG, you should be on a major television network.
He SHOULD be, but the major networks want FAKE content, Not REAL content. Thankfully we can STILL find real history content on YT.
That would just ruin the channel.
Avalon was also the title of a song written about the town. There is a lot of history around those islands.
You mean the Roxy Music song? Ugh......😖
@@goodun2974 That isn't the song I was referring to. I think it was Lionel Hampton who wrote and performed it.
@JesseOaks-ef9xn , I'm not really a jazz fan but I am familiar with Lionel Hampton (for those who aren't familiar with him, he played the Vibraphone); I saw him play at a free concert once back in the 1980s. I don't recall that song however. (PS, speaking of the Vibraphone, I'm actually a big Frank Zappa fan; Vibraphonist and percussionist Ruth Underwood was a major contributor to his music).
Took fishing charters through the Santa Cruz Island’s twice. Both experiences were excellent. I caught barracuda, snapper and ling cod that looked like massive props from a Tim Burton movie
Wow, such detailed descriptions of the fire- makes history even more interesting having those first person accounts
I am a native of SoCal, Santa Cataline was a frequent destination, I've never heard this story, thanks for the info!
Best Mother in law story ever.
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💋 Thank you for sharing.
The first time we stayed on Catalina we stayed at the Inn on Mt. Ada, which is the old Wrigley mansion (beautiful house! Wrigley's old office is preserved intact, along with the telescope he used to watch the Cubs spring training. If he didn't think they were trying hard enough, they had to run from the practice field to the house, up and down gullys and through brush!). All that time, we were never told how Mr. Wrigley acquired the island, just that he owned it. Quite interesting!
Love the cuff links
Thank you History Guy
Great vid on a subject that I never heard of before and always wanted to hear.
When I saw this my first thought was “wow, those wine mixers there used to really get out of control”.
Worked Construction for the Wrigley's in 2009 in Avalon..Great Job ...Golf Cart Madness
Yup, they don’t allow many cars on the island.
@d.b.1176 at one point we shipped a small glass truck over on barge to haul Materials up the hills..barge was expensive...truck was massive there 😆...and it was exploited by other trades while there
@@jahyoda noice
It’s a great place to visit if you want to find some interesting history beyond this fire. But you better go soon because there are still very old residents that seem to remember a lot of it first hand and they will not last forever.
Always great to stop in to Lola’s barbershop, he’s 94 or 95 and still goes into the shop everyday to cut a few ears. A lot 0f history. And of course, The museum is always a good place to drop in for a while.
My first airplane flight was on a sea plane from Long Beach to Avalon in 1962 where we took a ride on a glass bottom boat and drove around on the island in a rented electric car.
One of my favorite getaways, tho I havent been for a long time. I always enjoy the boat ride over with many dolphin and flying fish sightings, maybe even a whale. The tribal name for the island is Pimu
Thank you for todays lesson.
What a great watch.... My dad's side has lived/fished in the San Pedro area since 1905, many stories of Catalina have been passed down and this was one of them. How about a vid on the Bird Farm or the history of the Casino... Thanks for posting.
My great grandfather and grandfather went with Wrigley when he bought the island.
I just dig everything you do. Keep it up.
Happy Thanksgiving history dude
Living in LA for 27 years now, I did hear about the fire, but by far not in those details covered in this video...
The freaking Catalina Wine Mixer!!
It's the freakin' Catalina Wine Mixer.
Christmas video idea for you! The history of Egg Nog
It's good to hear from you again .I've been phoneless for a bit, phone fasting missed All your great knowledge I have some catching up to do 🧠
Imagine buying that island for $200,000? I just bought a tiny condo for $360K.
It shows how much the dollar has been eroded since the Federal Reserve took over in 1914/1915.
Adjusted for inflation, 6.5 million is solid for an entire island so close to LA
I have old photos of my great grandparents and grandparents at the beach in Avalon. It is dated to something like 1915-1925. I have to look for it to know for sure.
Timm's landing? I didn't know that there was a second one on Catalina. Early maps of San Pedro , or LA harbor, (which is closer to Avalon than Long Beach) show a Timm's landing, which was one of few places in that part of the early port where boats could offload their cargo.
Yes, both were named after the same Timms.
Thank THG🎀
We now have Sprinkler Systems to prevent that
(Back in the day, I built the Fire Protection Systems)
Oooh...Starfish Cufflinks 😃
Crazy swim challenge from shore to Island. Nice place to live but you wouldn't want to swim there.
to paraphrase Dave Chappelle in an OJ skit ..
that Hotel Owner ... 'oh, that dude did that shit!'
🤔🤨🤨
Love your channel. Just noticed the 918th bomb group toby jug on the top shelf of the cabinet behind you. I love that. Have you done any episodes relating to 12 O' clock High?
You could do a video about the fires, plural, in Orchard Beach, Maine. I was there on the day of one of them, around 1969 or 70. I believe there have been 4 major fires at that resort town
Song...santa catalina. By the lettermen , nice!
The Four Preps had the big hit in 1958 with "26 Miles."
That song is in my head every time I fly there 😃
I live in Missouri now, but, unfortunately, California has had many fires. But, this is the first time I've heard of the Islands ever having a fire storm. I used to live about an hour North of Santa Barbara.
The Ancient Chumash Natives used to make log canoes and ride out to the Islands for special ceremonies. But, they lived on the mainland.
There was also another less serious fire about 15 - 16 years ago that was started by a welder near the KBRT radio tower and burned south toward Avalon. It took out most of the buildings in Falls Canyon area of Avalon before being stopped. There are now fire breaks that are maintained near town. An oddly pleasant place to live and visit. Happy to called it home for a portion of my life and to still have many friends that live there.
It happened on Mexican Mother’s Day of 2007. I was heading back to school from lunch break when I first saw the smoke cloud. Later, the fire had spread and it snowed ash. Many people evacuated the island. Avalon was close to burning down again. Some very surreal moments. Firefighters did great and rescued our town.
An item of history that deserves to he remembered. The whole affair smells very fishy!
Visited the island while on a family vacation. Everything is shipped in on containers and they have a waiting list for residential vehicles to be shipped that was at that time, well over a year. Instead, islanders used golf carts. To such a great extent that they often pimped them up like show cars and even LA County Sheriff Deputies had their golf carts dressed up with tiny light bars. The Wriggly Mansion served breakfast for those who could afford it, (we could not😂). Lots of scrub trees, cactus and deer on land and kelp in the water. Good to visit, I’d not want to live there. 😊
What a story!
1915 $1.5 million loss is equal to $46,880,792.08 in 2024 money.
I knew a LACSD who lived there as a Deputy with his K9 and he used to walk with John Wayne on the beach after every one went to sleep and he would also play cards with him on his converted navy mine sweeper that he lived on. His name was Edgar Evans.
Gotta say your channel is quite wonderful. It reminds me of the much, though short lived, tv show narrated by the iconic George "Dr George" Fischbeck, known as Disaster: How and Why. Who was best know as the weatherman for KABC7 Eyewitness News Los Angeles. Thank you.
In 1965, I was overseas in uniform, rifle in hand. Nonstop airships flying overhead to the conflict center. For Johnson escalated the war.
I witnessed that air mobilization.
I was on Catalina Island, in the boyscouts at the firing range.
The planes I assumed were coming from Camp Penalton.. possibly El Toro helicopters inside those pregnant looking airships. Speaking of airplanes, Did you know John Wayne Airport has discounted parking... Now you know the rest of the story.
Nice
The Catalina wine mixer!
Boats and Hoes!
BAM!
For sure
There goes THG cleaning up history again
Please do one on the east Nashville fire 1916.
ITS THE CATALINA WINE MIXER
The Catalina Wine Mixer!
I LOVE flying there for a Buffalo Burger 😃
Some people don't know where to shop. I'm looking at 160 acres with a spring and a river against one side and forest on the other. Views of the mountains and valley for miles
Not to be confused with the Avalon condominiums that keep going up in flames in northern New Jersey 100 years later
If you go
Hit up Tony at the La Paloma for a great place to stay that’s still family owned.
WOW!🤯I know someday, the truth will come out!
Avalon was the name of a fictional island in Call of Duty Black Ops 6, which is set in 1991.
I worked on Santa Catalina multiple summers. A great experience indeed.
This makes me want to write a Call of Cthulhu module to explain what really happened.
Whatever secrets anyone had have gone to the grave with them.
Bison? Eccentric.
Brought there for a movie filming in 1924.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I am curious toward the culinary impact upon the Catalina 'Resort Culture'. Restauranteurs are notoriously innovative.
@ I think that is typically attributed to the wide availability of fresh seafood.
Metropole is actually the root of "metropolis" often defined as the homeland, central territory or the state exercising power over a colonial empire.
What is the Fancy hotel there now. Built in the 1800s I thought
The Glenmore Plaza was built in 1891 and survived the fire.
01:56 | A real gold rush? Or do you mean a "land rush"?
If it was arson, the fellow covered his tracks well.
Apparently not well enough since you know the arsonist’s gender
Might say burned the evidence…
TV shows to the contrary, it's often very difficult to connect arson to specific people.
Can you do a video on the barbershop quartet?
Kinda like the 2023 Lahaina Fire a century later.
The first fire was the distraction and the second fire was supposed to follow with the equipment all at the end of town. Come on!
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Santa Catalina, also known as Santa Caliente, is Old Saint Nick's younger cooler South American stepbrother. Mrs. Clause made the naughty list. Santa was not pleased.😅 By the way. Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving History Guy.
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I noticed the ceramic piece on your upper shelf that looks exactly like the one in 12:00 o’clock High!
Cool !
Yes, a Toby mug. A gift from a viewer.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Is the schooner model of a particular ship?
@ yes. That is a model of the Spanish training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano. Juan Sebastián de Elcano - Explorer and Ship
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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thank you! Love sailing ship models.
Love the history but the thumbnail choice is quite peculiar...reminds me of the meme of the girl smiling while the house burns in the background. Although I'm certain no deviousness occurred here lol
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Hooch hut. 😂 Definition - bar.
Maybe it was the Germans.
Interesting video. Your pronunciation of the island's name sounds quite odd to me, a SoCal native who's been there many times. I think you're hitting the consonants a bit too hard.
My friends college aged child is on Catalina right now. Looking for the thousands of giants buried there. 7' - 8' tall it's scary to realize how much of our nations. No our world history has been suppressed!💯
My family and I are all 7’+ descendants of the Catalina giants
Tartarian.
@letsclimb5828 your dwarfophobia is alarming 🤣
Sounds like those giants might be a good story for a History
Deserves to be Remembered video. Have a good day.
The story of the island giants was fabricated by a grave robber who wanted the archeological fame like the Egyptian mummies at the time.
Arson
Hmmm, sounds a lot like the fires in Maui huh?
Oh please.
Lahaina = Avalon V2.0 ?
Way higher # than 2.0, unfortunately. The powers that (are soon not to) be have been doing this sort of thing for well over two centuries on this continent. Just take a look at some of the cities that were "bombarded" during the civil war, or look into the great Chicago fire and the other lesser known fires from that day, the San Francisco fire....or pretty much every other small town to major city who suffered their own "great fire" during the period between 1890-1920. Most all of them are "explained away" by some ridiculous story which often lacks any or all logic. Nope, they've been doing this for a long time, and they've been getting away with it but all things done in the dark shall be and are being brought into light.