It Didn't Happen Overnight—The Evolution of the Glendoran PDF Print E-mail
Old to New Glendoran
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hen the ‘dream’ of a magazine first engulfed Ida and I, things were a lot different. First of all, computers were in their infancy and what they offered was little more than a fancy electric typewriter with limited storage. In 1982 the TRS-80 computer was being offered by Radio Shack. It had a word processing program that sounded like it would revolutionize the publishing business. We invested in one and thus began the saga of the Fracasse’s and the publishing of the Glendoran magazine.

Our first publication consisted of 40 pages and the cover showed the village of Glendora looking north. The subscription price was $20 per year for a few years until it was raised to $25 and it has remained the same ever since. Beginning copies were very basic in layout design and everything, and I mean everything, was done by hand. The pages, when ready, would be filmed by the printer and plates made to use on the printing press. The photos were turned into what was called ‘stats’ when
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La Fetra—Names in Perpetuity PDF Print E-mail

La Fetra Center Gathering

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lthough Orton Englehart invented the Rain Bird, it was Clement (Clem) and Mary Elizabeth (Betty) La Fetra who provided the marketing know-how, and launched Rain Bird Sprinkler Manufacturing Corporation. When Clement passed away in 1963,  “Betty took full control of the company and ran it with creativeness and brains that assured its success,” said her granddaughter, Heidi Ludwick (Hanson), in an article featured in the Glendoran magazine, Jan/Feb, 1985.

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