By Alane K. Dashner of Lodi, CA (sing to the tune of “ Oh Susanna!”) [verse 1] Red-Winged Blackbirds are everywhere, Alaska to CancúnBut here in Californ-aye-ee we sing the saddest tune [verse 2] All Blackbirds rustle in the brush, […]
By Alane K. Dashner of Lodi, CA (sing to the tune of “ Oh Susanna!”) [verse 1] Red-Winged Blackbirds are everywhere, Alaska to CancúnBut here in Californ-aye-ee we sing the saddest tune [verse 2] All Blackbirds rustle in the brush, […]
After graduating from Loma Linda University Medical School, Mamie Guthrie Pallesen, M.D., came to Lodi with her doctor-husband in 1942. She practiced general medicine and surgery. A member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, she encouraged “mental hygiene” and abstinence from […]
In early 2019, the Lodi Arts Commission began the search for an artist who could design and paint a mural to honor the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although the Declaration of Independence signed in […]
Gertie de Force Cluff, younger sister of Laura de Force Gordon, was Lodi’s first newspaper publisher. She founded The Valley Review in 1878, winning many Lodi readers with her witty columns and forthright opinions. When in 1882 her paper gained a wider […]
Bertha de Almado Clark graduated from Lodi High School in 1905, which at that time was a small building at the northwest corner of Lodi Avenue and Church Street.She moved to San Francisco to work for a newspaper just in time […]
Laura de Force Gordon was born in Pennsylvania in 1838. As a teen, she helped support her many siblings by working as a spiritual medium and lecturer. After meeting Susan B. Anthony in 1854, Laura dedicated herself to women’s rights. With […]
Celia Crocker Thompson 503 W Pine Street private home – stay on sidewalk Photos in slideshow below are courtesy of the San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, Lodi, California. Celia Crocker Thompson was born in 1874 at the remote […]
Julia Harrison Micke came to Lodi with her husband William G. Micke in 1908. Early in their marriage they raised Tokay grapes on the Race Track Ranch, the former site of dog- and horse-racing, at Cherokee Lane and Lodi Avenue.They soon […]
Daisy Pleas (1872-1960) lived most of her 88 years in Lodi. Her mother, Mary Lewis, was a young widow with three children who came from Michigan to marry Lodi farmer Silas Pleas. The couple had three surviving daughters, Daisy, Linda, and […]
Lois Borchardt (1929-2001), Doris McCaughna (1925-2019), and Pat Robison (1929-2020) joined forces to address the issue of domestic violence in Lodi. In the 1980’s, the three friends formed a taskforce to study domestic violence, and later received initial funding from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). In […]