Find Out About Fullerton’s History
A guy named Jesse La Tour has a website that includes lots of news pictorial history of Fullerton. You may remember Mr. La Tour from his days as editor of the Fullerton Observer when he actually brought a sense of fairness to the rag but left, or was pushed out when Skasia Kennedy took over the family red ink business. Before that La Tour was a bookstore/gallery operator downtown and was a council candidate in 2010.
It’s interesting to see the origins of small, agricultural Fullerton include racist, anti-Chinese, anti-Japanese, and and anti-Mexican hysteria.
Mr. La Tours photo collection goes all the way into the 90s with examples of Fullerton Observer “progressivism” under Ralph Kennedy, pater familias of the dismal clan.
Anyway, there’s a lot of distilled information here, although the site strikes me as a bit more of a chronicle than an historical analysis. Still, Mr. La Tour must have arrived at some definite conclusions about why our town is the way it is, and seemingly always has been.
Fullerton, being Fullerton.
Dude looks like he should be working the counter at a cannabis shop.
Miss him editing the Fullerton Observer.
Jessie always seemed to be an honest and even handed reporter. Had he not been pushed out of the Observer, it would not be as F-d up today as it is.
What happened to Fullerton Observer editor Urooj Naveed? Was she pushed out by Saskia too?
“My name is Saskia Kennedy. In 2020, Sharon retired, and Jessie La Tour became the editor. Jessie, Matt Leslie, and I owned the paper together for a short time in 2021. I am the owner/editor now. I have had a diverse educational journey, having started and stopped college multiple times. I’ve studied a variety of subjects, including psychology, journalism, computer graphics, languages, photography, art, and computer science.”
Studied journalism? Odd since you spelled your editor’s name incorrectly twice in a letter announcing yourself to the Fullerton Observer readership you so proudly admit you care about.
Computer graphics? But the Observer looks like shit.
A diverse education journey: dropping out of a series of junior colleges that didn’t cost anything.
So let me get this straight Harpoon. A lady with no degree and no career application or job ambition as far as her own resume spells out, is now the community’s voice for freedom of the press?!!?? Guess it makes sense for a community that somehow allowed a Syrian quasi gay non-practicing self professed Muslim man to be the voice of underrepresented Latinos. Fullerton should have a sign off the freeway saying, if you have a bridge to sell, we buy.
SOS. Fullerton being Fullerton. Can’t get out of its own way. I hold out hope for this new council and cross my fingers Zahra goes away soon.