Stories
Real stories about Campbell, from the people who published them
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Classic reads
- The ‘Orchard City’ Is A California Valley Gem With Walkable Downtown Shops, Diners, And A Bustling Market ↗A weekend in Campbell: the Sunday market, the museums and the creek trail.
- Major retail investor buys Campbell’s Pruneyard shopping center ↗The sale of the renovated Pruneyard’s retail portion.
- South Bay Woman Honored For Rescuing Historic Teddy Roosevelt Tree From Dump ↗How a Campbell Garden Club member saved the stump of the redwood Roosevelt planted in 1903.
- Root, Root, Root for the Home Team ↗Campbell Little League’s history and its three trips to the World Series final.
- One for the Ages ↗The 1962 Moreland Little League team, the only Northern California side to win the Little League World Series, fifty years on.
- The Tower in the Sky ↗A short portrait of the water tower and the town’s first utility, drawn from Jeanette Watson’s history.
- PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins ↗The Supreme Court case that began with students petitioning at the Pruneyard.
- Remarks of President Roosevelt at Campbell, California, May 11, 1903 ↗The record of Roosevelt’s brief words to the crowd in Campbell.
- Heritage Theatre Seeking Board Members ↗The history of the 1938 high school auditorium and its rescue by volunteers.
- Orchard City Canning Company ↗The Payne cannery of 1910 to 1919, with notices from the Campbell Interurban.
- Gaslighter Theatre ↗The 1920 bank building on East Campbell Avenue that became a cinema and then a melodrama house.
- City of Campbell Plaque Locations ↗Every historic plaque in town and the story behind it.
- Campbell Historic Downtown Walking Tour ↗Fourteen historic sites downtown, from the Hyde Cannery site to the firehouse.
- A Self-Guided Tour of the Canneries of Campbell ↗Five stops through the canneries, dry yards, depot and cooperatives of downtown Campbell.
- This Place Matters ↗A monthly series on Campbell’s landmark homes, from the Galindo-Leigh House to the Young-Sartorette House.
- From Prunes to Pop Music ↗How the Prune Festival, Super Prune and all, became Boogie.