Ten Years Ago
A new local theater group, The Foothill Musical Theatre founded by Marlys Marsteller and Lance Merrill was preparing its inaugural production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods,” which would be staged at Lanterman Auditorium.
Twenty Years Ago
After searching around the north and south embankments of the 210 Freeway near Angeles Crest Highway on a Friday in November 1993, sheriff’s department units apprehended three of four youths in their late teens who had allegedly just robbed thee Citizen’s Business Bank at gunpoint.
Thirty Years Ago
About 200 La Cañada families were preparing to welcome more than 400 young officer candidates from the U.S. Military in West Point and Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis who were in the area over Thanksgiving weekend in 1983 to attend the first Army-Navy football gave to be held at the Rose Bowl.
Forty Years Ago
The La Cañada High School varsity water polo team captured its first Rio Hondo League title in four years, beating La Salle by a score of 16-2. Bill Barnard led all scorers with five goals.