Annual Meeting: Fox Trotting in Pomona
The Historical Society of Pomona Valley's annual meeting was a great success as we celebrated the roaring twenties.  The excitement of the evening was trying to ignore our local temperance lady who warned about the evils of loose women and booze. Most went ahead and entered the building despite her warnings. Eileen Wallis provided a wonderful program on the women of Pomona during the twenties. She also showed some great silent movies of the era. Melissa was a great bar tender whipping up concotions of the era. We even had our cigarette girl. Many attendees dressed in costume and the music fit the era. The silent auction was also very successful and the food was great. The museum featured twenties costumes, newspapers, yearbooks, maps and other items from the era. It was a lot of fun as well as a successful fund raiser. 

  Author Lecture: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
The presentation was very well received.

Out of the lemons handed to Mexican American workers in Corona, California -- low pay, segregated schooling, inadequate housing, and racial discrimination -- Mexican men and women made "lemonade" by transforming leisure spaces such as baseball games, parades, festivals and churches into politicized spaces where workers voiced their grievances, debated strategies for advancement, and built solidarity. Using oral history interviews, extensive citrus company records and his own experiences in Corona, Jose Alamillo argues that Mexican Americans helped lay the groundwork for civil rights struggles and electoral campaigns in the post-World War II era.

Haunted Mansion - Premature Burial
In October of 2006 the Phillips held an event to explore one of the most frightening Victorian themes -- premature burial. People found themselves in the middle of a Victorian nightmare worse than death itself. Poe himself felt this truth was more horrifying than fiction. It would be a grave error to prematurely think of this event as being an "Ordinary Halloween Haunted House."

Screening of "The Mortuary" Featuring the Historic Currier House

The Mortuary, the film that captured the supposed haunted nature of the Historic Currier House in Pomona was filmed at our historic site.  The director was Tobe Hooper, of "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" fame.

The Doyle family moves to rural California to start a new life; perhaps a strange choice because their new life takes on the form of running the long abandoned Fowler Brothers Funeral Home. The locals fear the place, and there are whispers around town that the land the home lies on is haunted. The Doyle family will soon discover that something lurks beneath the soil -- something that raises rotten corpses from their long forgotten graves and feeds on death itself.

This movie is rated R for horror, violence and gore, brief sexuality, nudity and language.