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unusual facts about San Bernardino, CA



Andrew Lytle

Andrew Lytle (pioneer), captain of the 150 wagon pioneer company that founded San Bernardino, California and its third mayor.

Augustus Ulyard

The couple arrived in Los Angeles on December 31, 1852, after crossing the country with a wagon train of pioneers that left from Council Bluffs and pursued the Southern Emigrant Trail through the Cajon Pass and San Bernardino.

Big Bear Discovery Center

San Bernardino National Forest Association headquarters is located at 602 S. Tippcanoe Ave., San Bernardino, California 92408.

Bill Kinnamon

He eventually began running the training program independently, operating one of the two principal umpiring schools from 1974 to 1981 in San Bernardino, California before selling the school to umpire Joe Brinkman, who had been an instructor in Kinnamon's program since 1973.

Brenda Shinn

Shinn returned to competitive shooting in 2006, when her son K.C. attended the California State University in San Bernardino, California.

Clayton Sandell

His first professional broadcasting job was working as a disc jockey at KRTM radio in Temecula, California later joining KCKC radio (now KTDD) in San Bernardino as a reporter and anchor.

CSUSB College of Extended Learning

The California State University, San Bernardino College of Extended Learning is one of the several colleges of the California State University, San Bernardino, located on the main university campus in the University District of San Bernardino, California.

Dick Rutan

In 1992 Rutan ran as a conservative Republican against Democratic congressman George Brown, Jr. in California's 42nd congressional district; comprised mostly by the San Bernardino region of southern California and viewed as a swing district.

Félix Toranzos

"Espacios y construcciones", "De realismos y Surrealismos", Galería Arte-Sanos/ San Bernardino, Paraguay.

Friendly People

The most famous of these incidents included the band being banned for several years from performing in Canada on charges of public indecency due to onstage nudity in Saskatoon, and singer Mark Adkins' arrest for "assault with a deadly weapon" after using his onstage microphone to incite a near-riot during a show in San Bernardino.

Gorgonius

San Gorgonio Mountain near San Bernardino, California was named by Spanish missionaries in honor of Saint Gorgonius in the 1800s.

Jeremy Stevenson

Jeremy Joseph Stevenson (born July 28, 1974 in San Bernardino, California) is a retired professional ice hockey left winger who last played for the Kalamazoo Wings of the International Hockey League.

Jesse Hernandez

He also promotes an independent wrestling organization called Empire Wrestling Federation in San Bernardino, California, performing under the name Jesse Hernandez.

John Holladay

In 1851, the Holladay family joined Apostle Amasa Lyman’s LDS Church sanctioned purchase and colonization of Rancho San Bernardino, present-day San Bernardino, CA.

LA84 Foundation

The Foundation makes grants in the eight southernmost counties of California (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura).

Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad

Traveling southwestward from Salt Lake, the railroad's division point towns were Lynndyl, Utah; Milford; Caliente, Nevada; Las Vegas; Yermo, California; and San Bernardino, California.

Melvin Anthony

Melvin Anthony grew up in the lower-middle-class neighborhoods of Sacramento and San Bernardino, California.

Nell Soto

Soto represented the 61st Assembly district (including parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties and the cities of Ontario, Pomona, Chino and Montclair) from 1998 to 2000 and again from 2006 to 2008.

Nueva Colombia District

Nueva Colombia is a distrito in the Cordillera Department of Paraguay, located on the road between Emboscada and San Bernardino.

Oklahoma State Agency Databases

Allows searching the Oklahoma Union Catalog, Oklahoma Serials Database, Tennessee Database, Tennessee Serials, San Bernardino County Law Library, Kansas Main Catalog, Kansas List of Serials, and the TLC Union Catalog.

Orange Pavilion

The Orange Pavilion is a multi-purpose arena, on the grounds of the NOS Events Center, in San Bernardino, California.

Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington

A few miles south of San Bernardino, California, in the small town of Bloomington in 1945, a particular group of veterans and POBOB founder Otto Friedli who was too young to have served in the war, found civilian life to be too slow and set out to get more thrills by riding motorcycles and hot rod cars.

Railroad Canyon

On September 14, 1865, outlaw James Henry of the Mason Henry Gang and his gang of rustlers, robbers and murderers were camped out south of San Bernardino, California.

Russell Merle Genet

Between 1964 and 1968 he worked as a rocket scientist for Space and Missile Systems, San Bernardino, California.

San Angeles

San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside.

San Bernardino, Libertador, Caracas

Although it is mostly a middle class residential neighbourhood, San Bernardino holds some of the most important Venezuelan hospitals and some enterprises within its territory like the headquarters of one of the biggest banks of the country Banco Mercantil, the headquarters of Banco Venezolano de Crédito, Corpoelec the fully integrated state power corporation of Venezuela and the Centro Financiero Confinanzas.

San Bernardino, Paraguay

San Bernardino (commonly known as Samber) is a town and distrito in Paraguay, located on the shores of Ypacarai Lake in the Cordillera Department.

The Hotel del Lago (Lake Hotel) in San Bernardino was where the German nationalist Dr. Bernhard Förster spent the last 6 weeks of his life, before committing suicide on 3 June 1889 by taking an overdose of strychnine.

San Bernardino, Switzerland

It is the southern entry point to the San Bernardino tunnel, that complemented the road over the San Bernardino Pass in 1967, opening a new all-year-round road to crossing the alps.

San Gorgonio High School

Its campus is located at the corner of Pacific Street and Arden Avenue on the border between San Bernardino and Highland, California.

Steve Nemesh

Steve Nemesh (31 December 1896 Szécsény, Hungary – 18 September 1975 San Bernardino, California) was a Hungarian-born open-wheel racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States and competed as an American.

Tauschia parishii

It is endemic to California, where it occurs in several mountain ranges, including the White and Inyo Mountains, the Tehachapis, and the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains.

The Sunrays

They appeared at Crescendo Interlude on the Sunset Strip with Joey Dee and the Starlighters, the Teen Age Fair at Pacific Ocean Park, the after party for the 1963 Academy Awards, The Bob Eubanks TV Dance Party, and every Friday night as the house dance party band at the San Bernardino, California Civic Auditorium.

Tom Eaton

Eaton was awarded the Don Knotts Memorial Award by the Greater San Bernardino, California Key Club for his contributions to their 2006 "Suds and Duds" car wash–clothing drive.

Travis T. Flory

Travis T. Flory (born May 24, 1992 in San Bernardino, California) is an American actor, who is best known for his role as Joey Caruso on Everybody Hates Chris.

William F. Holcomb

In 1859 while in Los Angeles, Holcomb and a companion Jack Martin heard of the Bear Valley diggings near San Bernardino.


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