Covina Past

A Covina history blog
    by J Scott Shannon

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Original Covina Landowners

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While digging into old real estate records earlier this month, I decided to make a map showing the names of the first owners of every parcel...
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Sunday, September 14, 2025

The Tract, Trials and Tribulations of Joseph Phillips

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J. Edward Hollenbeck and Joseph Phillips: the two men without whom Covina would not have existed. These past six weeks I've been doing...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

On AI

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Given the pace of change in our electronic world, I'd like to state for the record that I have never used "artificial intelligence...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Badillo Mystery Solved?

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There's been all kinds of speculation in recent years about the name of Badillo Street in Covina and why it differs from the pioneer fa...
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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Book Report

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I just read a new novel called "Gone in Time" by F. K. Matthews. It's a story about a young man who mysteriously finds himse...
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Sunday, July 6, 2025

The Issei Fathers of West Covina

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Relatively few valley residents today are aware that people of Japanese ancestry played a significant role in the early history of West Covi...
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