Covina Past
A Covina history blog
by J Scott Shannon
Monday, May 18, 2026
The First Settler in West Covina, 1904
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It may be difficult to believe, but a section of the East San Gabriel Valley that is now home to about a hundred thousand people was basical...
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Covina Wikipedia Article
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Spent the last 5 days working on improving the Wikipedia article on Covina . For years, the History section of that page has been the single...
Friday, May 8, 2026
Compromise Line Road
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I hope my dozen or so regular readers will pardon me if I write about someplace other than Covina just once. ;-) Although I was born and r...
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Changes
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Although the sometime long gaps between posts might make it appear I'm only doing this part-time, the truth is that even if I'm not ...
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Friday, April 24, 2026
Covina in the Aughts
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Citrus Avenue again, only this time about a half-century earlier. This photo was fairly easy to date, and very precisely, too. Looking nor...
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Citrus Avenue in the Fifties
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Here we have two nice, detailed mid-century views of Covina's busy Citrus Avenue. The photos are undated, but examining certain clues, I...
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