The recently-completed work conducted by the California Conservation Corps along the Orange County portion of Carbon [Canyon] Creek did not just turn out to be removal of dead arundo donax biomass or the recovery of other deceased plant material or the... »
While driving on Carbon Canyon Road from Brea to Chino Hills, we came, just before 11:30, upon a serious accident at the eastern end of where the historic La Vida Mineral Springs property is.Paramedics, police and an ambulance or two were on scene and ... »
Thanks to a comment and an image provided by Sleepy Hollow resident Ray Byworth after he read the post two weeks back on the 1940 federal census in the community, there is new information about a second mineral springs resort in Carbon Canyon. The far... »
A fellow resident of Sleepy Hollow, who works in rescuing bee hives (the phenomenon of bee hive collapse, which recently was linked to certain pesticides, is a significant one these days) has expressed concern about bee hive frames and boxes that have ... »
Yesterday, the 1940 federal census was released for public access (statutes mandate that the decennial censuses cannot be made available until 72 years after the enumeration) and there has plenty of press about overwhelming demand forcing a shutdown of... »
In the two-and-a-half weeks since the post about the intensive cleanup work conducted by the California Conservation Corps along Carbon [Canyon] Creek on the Brea side of the Canyon, further work has been done and more orange trash bags are sitting alo... »
In its later years, the La Vida Mineral Springs was a popular place for live music and a post from 2009 (see here) covers some of the history of the music scene at the resort.One band that played at La Vida was called SMUT and several videos of mid-198... »
Over the last couple of weeks, work crews from the California Conservation Corps, under contract with the Santa Ana Watershed Authority, which oversees a grant-funded arundo donax treatment program, have been busily working to clear dead arundo and muc... »
Over the last weekend, the utility box (or whatever it is/was--someone might leave a comment if they know) covered by the fake rock across from the entrance to the old La Vida Mineral Springs hotel on the south side of Carbon Canyon Road was finally co... »
There have been a rash of collisions on Carbon Canyon Road within the last few days. The first seems to have been an eastbound miscalculation on the Brea side just west of the Chino Hills border in which a car veered off the roadway and crumpled a gua... »
Early on in this blog, it was noted that an Orange County history timeline stated that William Newton Miller opened La Vida Mineral Springs in 1925. However, there was an earlier operation at the site, going back at least a decade earlier.This was not... »
This latest manifestation of motor vehicular mayhem seems to have occurred within the last week or so.This is just beyond the summit on the S-curve on the Chino Hills side of the canyon and is the property of a long-time resident.An eastbound driver to... »
This is another 10 ounce bottle from the La Vida Mineral Springs. It is the same type in terms of design and layout and era as the one featured last month and may be from about the same era: 1940s or perhaps not long afterward.But, the reverse list of... »
This post, continuing the highlighting of a 1924 map of the Olinda Oil Field and nearby locales, moves to the west and south of the area discussed in the last and takes us into the Orange County and Brea portion of Carbon Canyon.In this case, there are... »
Here is another vintage soda bottle from the La Vida Bottling Company made from water extracted from the firm's mineral springs resort on the Brea side of Carbon Canyon. While other bottles posted here have either been 32 ounce or 7 ounce examples (th... »
