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0136

1892

Elmire - Old Elmira Bar and Sample Room where the drummers (salesmen) displayed their sample mechandise for Elmira and Vacaville, 1892

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At old hotels, you slept with your boots on / Delaplane, Kristin [275] [ECHOS-1996-275]
Third in a series Suisun City's major hotel was the landmark Roberts House located on the square. It burned down, but it was rebuilt in a most lavish manner. It featured three stories with a balcony and was renamed the Arlington Hotel. In 1868, the site of Elmira was established to accommodate the train, and within a bit of time the Sample Rooming House and Bar was built.

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0504

Bar-Room--Fairfield Hotel

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0869

1978

Elmira Fire House which was 2nd one in Elmira. "old Betsy" a Dodge engine made in 1929 and still in service in 1978

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0781

1915

Snowball in Elmira at old S. P. station with steam train

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Buildings turn into dwellings and barrooms / Delaplane, Kristin [372] [ECHOS-1998-372]
Chrysler's Empire Building on the corner of Solano and Suisun streets in Suisun City was turned into a dwelling. In 1865, the I.O.G.T. had its rooms over the Empire Saloon. A. Chrysler, long associated with the Cosmopolitan Saloon, opened a new saloon in White's building, calling it Chrysler's Sample Rooms.

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Elmira hotels, turkey shoots thrived in 1884 / Delaplane, Kristin [363] [ECHOS-1997-363]
The population of Elmira was about 300 people in 1884. The streets were in place and the residents were living in neat cottages painted and surrounded by shade trees. If one chose to live in the area, for $1,200 you could buy John Gamble's place. It included an eight-room house with closets and a bathroom (no running water), a smokehouse, two barns, a buggy shed, a well and a windmill with a tank. The acreage was planted in fruit trees and some grapevines.

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