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They first recognized the potential of the industry and with L. Alles, formed the Carlsbad Avocado Growers Club in early They called into meeting all the growers in the Carlsbad district to establish a headquarters where problems pertinent to the industry could be discussed and solved. The trio was elected as officers of the club with Newberry president, Thompson vice president and Atlas secretary.
They began with an initial membership of 17 that later grew to Dues were a dollar a year and meetings were semi-annual. Around , the publication "The Broadway of the Pacific" estimated the annual income for the avocado industry in San Diego County was 4,, The publication announced that the peak of planting came between and ; the peak of production in A double halter was slapped on the industry by almost simultaneous dual adverse circumstances. First, water became short and available water was salty.
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Second, home-seekers surged into the area making it more profitable to sell home sites than market avocados. Sam Thompson, a wholesale nurseryman for 14 years in Orange County, started the first avocado grove in Carlsbad in , on land where the Carlsbad reservoir now stands. Two years later he moved downhill to his present eight-acre experimental site. Sam's development of new avocado varieties won prizes in fairs and exhibits and drew interested, distinguished folk to the District. Alles, former president of the Carlsbad Avocado Growers Club and a director of the California Avocado Association, had 26 acres in grove, the largest individual planting in San Diego County.
Litchfield's grove at the southern end of Carlsbad, considered one of the show places of the avocado industry, surrounded a Spanish style house that was itself "built from avocados. A former wheat farmer in Canada, Litchfield maintained that one man could tend several acres of avocados if he stayed "on the go" eight hours daily and irrigated right.
Litchfield championed the overhead sprinklers. Theisinger left the jewelry business due to health and with no previous experience, established avocado groves here billed as the finest in northern San Diego County and the most financially successful. Theisinger believed in high fertilization and generous watering of his groves.
He had many seedling lands scattered throughout the area. His large nursery stock of seedlings and budded avocados combined with his production of fine fruit brought him much acclaim. As the avocado industry was raising its head in Carlsbad in the early 's, commercial flower and bulb rising began. Zimmerman, Harry Bailey and Luther Gage. Luther Gage had come here from Montebello in and was responsible for drawing Harry Bailey here, also, from Montebello. Gage was the first commercial bulb grower here.
On five acres purchased at Tamarack and Jefferson, he began raising freesia bulbs. Earl Frazee Oceanside was his foreman and later his partner. If Gage wasn't the first to hit the Los Angeles market with winter glads, he was among the first. He also shipped to France and Holland. On 14 acres leased a half-mile from the freeway, he cultivated bulbs, raising iris, white and colored freesias, ranunculus, anemones, ixias, sapraxis, glads, baby glads and watsonias. He adopted "Tecolete" Spanish for ground owl for the copyright of his strain of bulbs.
Harry Bailey, a veteran nurseryman, was marketing fern seeds and bulbs in Florida. At one time, he had two ferneries, one a half-acre and the other a full acre. In addition to the bullet-like seeds of fern, he also marketed bulbs of all kinds from a four-acre tract. His favorite species were freesias, lilies, anemones and ranunculus.
Zimmerman, a former landscape architect in Los Angeles won silver cups and numerous blue ribbons for his gladioli, after starting with eight acres in bulbs over the hill from Carlsbad in Paradise Valley. The Zimmerman hybrid watsonia has brought him international renown instead of being limited to white or pink watsonia blooms.
The colors range from red, salmon, purple, and lilac almost every tint.
In addition to his watsonia garden, Zimmerman had a tract planted with , bulbous irises. The 's period also includes Allan 0. When the lagoon received only sufficient water to keep it from overflowing, summer's end found much stagnant water remaining. The county road Vista one store and warehouse wound along the north bank of the lagoon just above the high water line.
This was the only straight, smooth road in the north end of the county and the only place where the sports could get up full speed in their new-fangled Stanley Steamers, Thomas Flyers, merry Oldsmobiles, Pope-Hartfords and such. The Hedionda Bridge was widened from 25 feet to 75 feet and built much higher.
Big storms in and cut the channel out quite deeply and the tides continued to flow in and out of the Agua Hedionda lagoon for several years. Everybody wanted to swim in the warm water heated by the sun as it spread out over the hundreds acres mud flats east of the railroad. All this boating activity was spoiled when the State Highway built a new bridge just east of the old one and then dynamited the old one into the channel, blocking it off and causing it to sand up from that day on, until the Gas Company opened the channel again. It might be well, while in this same era, to take a sampling of news items from the "Spirit of Love" monthly newspaper that Allan Kelly recalls was "published once a month, mostly in the interest of spreading the Gospel and in predicting the weather.
Living up to its classic definition, though, the "Spirit of Love" did carry news, and news is the pulse beat of any community solidified in lead, halted as it happened, displayed in black ink and transfixed for posterity. So, from the July, "Spirit of Love" notes and news column of July , we extract progress soundings:. Thompson, the Orange county nurseryman, has decided to plant all, instead of half his acre tract here in avocado trees of various kinds that bear at different times thru sic the year.
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Somebody should wake up. Roberts, of Pasadena has bought from the South Coast co. Chase, the postmaster to-be, can manage both the post office and the railway business. Expert bean raisers estimate the yield at seven or eight sacks to the acre.
Had they been irrigated, he believes he would have had several times that much. And from the July , issue of the "Spirit of Love. Asmus and is preparing it for peas, in addition to his own. Theisinger and wife have bought six acres of land, with house on it south of the Dannesboe place, and expect to move in, in a few days.
Theisinger, we understand, has been a jewelry manufacturer in the East. Miss Olive Carey has let the contract for a new cottage in the block where she and her grandmother, Mrs. Hill, now have their summer residence. One or the other of the buildings will be rented. The weather is summery, tho sic not really hot.
Eymann have moved into their home which they built on land recently purchased near the Shipley place. Victor Temple, of Phoenix, Arizona, has spent a couple weeks with his mother here, at the same time building a small cottage for her on land purchased the South Coast to north of the old 'Crain Store,.
Kerchoff and Mr. Toole, of the South Coast co. In the nation was in the midst of a boom that was leading to a bust. Prosperity was everywhere and new businesses were rampant.
Among them was time establishment of a new business in Carlsbad - the institution of the Carlsbad Champion, forerunner of the present Carlsbad Journal. Although the Carlsbad Champion was not the initial publication in the community, it was the first weekly newspaper published here. Every editor of a newspaper leaves his individual signet on its pages. Significantly, as the paper changed hands, each transfer of ownership brought forth a distinguishing editorial statement somewhere along the line.
The Champion's owner, William A. Maxwell also used in the masthead the poem, author unknown: "Carlsbad Where spring comes in the summer, and summer comes in the fall; where fall comes in the winter and winter comes not at all. Shortly after establishing the Champion, Maxwell sold it to E. Deu Pree, whose stylized brevity in the Feb. But that's the best editorial we can write Ed. This Feb. Theater co-owners A. Clark and John Atkinson published an invitation from within the pages of the Champion for the public to attend their grand opening; it included the statement:.
The first movie was Clara Bow's "It. South Coast Land Company advertised an "outstanding buy" on Feb. But it is believed the name Journal will eventually prove popular with the readers. Mitchell began using national "mat" service photographs of national affairs. In , the newspaper moved from its original site in the Killian building now the Casino , to a new structure at State St.
The following year, in June, , the Journal reported:. The Garlands, publishers of the Post-Dispatch of Oceanside, in their initial statement on July 7, , said:. The advice and help of all our fellow townspeople will help us make the Journal a newspaper of which we can all be proud.