By Jim Tortolano For more than half a century, Garden Grove’s downtown has had a place “where everybody knows your name.” It may not be as world-famous as “Cheers” but Louie’s on […]
You’re known at Louie’s on Main
Sheldon slammed; Tito’s troubles
The possible reuse of the Westminster Civic Center has turned into the longest-running soap opera in the All-American City. Back in 2017, a proposal came from Steve Sheldon of Sheldon LLC to […]
AD goes to bat for the Lions
By Tim Burt/OC SportsZone Westminster High School baseball players and coaches had a surprise visitor to practice who created plenty of excitement when he picked up a bat and stepped into the […]
Cleveland Indians? Not for long
Farewell to the Cleveland Indians. Who’s next? The Cleveland baseball team, known since 1915 as the “Indians,” will drop the name and replace it with a new one, perhaps in 2022, according […]
From rusty to a renaissance
In my last column – way back two weeks ago – I mused on the significance of landmarks in a community. I asked readers to make their own suggestions about buildings or […]
It went from tin cans to toney
By Jim Tortolano Just before my family moved from the Wilmington district of Los Angeles in 1960 to Orange County, we explored some popular locations of our new domain. One of the […]
Why is Big Orange voting blue?
The 2020 presidential election is over … we hope. It’s time for the post-mortem, nationwide as well as locally. According to statistics from the Orange County Registrar of Voters, Orange County went […]
He was OC’s first man in space
To our readers: The Tribune is starting a new weekly feature of photos of notable people and places from and about our coverage areas of Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stanton and Westminster. […]
What’s your landmark decision?
Did you ever forget just how you drove home? I mean, your brain is so much on automatic at the end of a trying day, your subconscious just picks out the landmarks […]
Is Tom Brady still The Man?
Does the very name “Tom Brady” still send shivers of fear down the spines of NFL defenders, coaches and fans? Well … probably. Brady, a youthful 43 years old, has six Super […]
