Covina Past
A Covina history blog
by J Scott Shannon
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Chick's Sporting Goods Timeline
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Recently I posted about Chick's Sporting Goods on my new Facebook page and the "I Grew Up in Covina" FB group. Both were pre...
Monday, June 22, 2026
Citizen Casad
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If you've followed my blog for any significant length of time, you know I enjoy collecting old Covina postcards and learning about the p...
Monday, June 1, 2026
The Badilla Foreclosure
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The story of the Badilla coffee venture in the 1870s is the genesis chapter of Covina history. The families of Julian and Antonio Badilla we...
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...
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