Edward and Billie Ruminer started Ruminer's Produce in 1957. At 927 W. Inyo Ave., Tulare, CA, it was there that on their first day of...

In the seventeenth century, Cremona, Italy, had two famous violin makers - Nicolo Amati and Antonio Stradivari. In the twentieth century,...

Who was Oliver Franklin Mefford, and why does the City of Tulare's Airport and the rare wooden pre-WWII hangar, south of town and east of...

Tulare's women flocked to the famous and stylish millinery shops owned and operated by Mrs. Olive Lawler (Oli). Her first shop was in the...

In 1885, the Town of Tulare became the first institution of higher learning in the Southern and Central San Joaquin Valley. Tulare's...

The first pioneers came into the Southern San Joaquin Valley in the 1850s. Still, until the arrival of the railroad in 1872, farmers had...

Brothers Alexander and Fred Wheeler, sons of an English shipbuilder, came to Tulare from Ottawa, Illinois, in 1882. Together they founded...

Every community has its share of ghost stories, usually the product of someone's fertile imagination and often fueled by one too many...

Tulareans transplanted from the midwest especially appreciate the Valley's winter weather, for although we do experience a little fog, we...

Tulare was founded by the railroad when Southern Pacific reached this point in the Valley on July 25, 1872. During the next 14 years, the...

The 2008 Holy Ghost Festa, held in May, was extra-special for me in that the Manuel Pedrozo “Pete” Brazil ranch had the first celebration...

Tulare's first fair was a citrus fair held in the historic pavilion located in Zumwalt Park. It was held in October of 1893 and ran for...

Before the white man settled in the San Joaquin Valley, this land, from the entire valley floor to the adjoining foothill belt, was home...

Audie “Bud” and Ruby Stiles first started Stiles Flower Shoppe, a nursery and flower business, in about 1952 on West Prosperity Ave. in...

Johnny and Marguerite Fry brought the first Fosters Freeze franchise to Tulare in 1955. The Fry’s owned it for about six months when they...

Three generations of Canby’s have served Tulare, and they attribute their ability to work together to Roland Canby. Norman Canby,...

Had it not been for the Southern Pacific Railroad, there might never have been a Tulare. The Tulare area was mostly a barren stretch of...

If you asked a Tularean of 1939 if their city would soon become one of the busiest training grounds for the nation's pilots, a skeptical...

Long before the Tulare Union High School Auditorium (recently renamed the Community Auditorium), the Tulare Theater, the Veterans...

To survive Tulare's difficult early years - three devastating fires, abandonment by Southern Pacific, failure of the TID bonds, crippling...