Showing posts with label More Point Arena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label More Point Arena. Show all posts
Monday, February 28, 2022

Point Arena Time Capsule, 1950

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      Facebook is often maligned, and I suppose rightfully so, but I'm grateful for Facebook more often than not. In the case of this ph...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

A Star is Born!

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It only took 70 years for me to make my singing debut. Fittingly, it was in the Point Arena Theater, where in the decade of the ...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Everything I Know I Learned While Fishing

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It’s a good thing I did a lot of fishing when I was young, and learned everything then, because sad to say I haven’t done much fishing for m...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

When PG&E Came to Town

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Not long after we moved into the old abandoned high school building, in early 1950 Pacific Gas & Electricity (PG&E, aka Pacific Graf...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Honey, You Just Became a Lumberjack

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The summer of 1949 we were living in a trailer park in Newhall, north of Los Angeles near Santa Clarita. I had no idea where the town of New...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

New Doctor in Town

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One of our favorite family activities when we lived in the old abandoned high school was playing board games. Among other children we prefer...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Honor Private Property Rights – California Marine Sanctuaries

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My parents with my brother and I moved to Point Arena in 1949. We would go with Pop “rock picking” abalone, and I remember how Pop had to wo...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Point Arena Apprentice Poker Players

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The door of the Point Arena Hotel bar (now called the Sign of the Whale) still features the etched “girl in the champagne glass” window...
Thursday, February 16, 2006

The House We Built

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The house we built at 425 Main Street, Point Arena - still standing over sixty-five years later. (It looked bigger then - it does have a f...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The Old High School

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We left southern California for northern California in the summer of 1949. But what we really left behind was moving our tra...
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