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Solano History 19 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Hotel served travelers and club well / Bowen, Jerry [565] [WAYITWAS-2005-565]
The year 1936 saw the United States in the midst of the Depression. A short humorous article in The Reporter reflected the times: "Somebody Falling Down? There are said to be 10,000,000 unemployed in the United States. It's hard to believe that there are that many people unrelated to some public official."
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Great Depression caused hard times in Solano / Bowen, Jerry [825] [WAYITWAS-2008-825]
Today I saw an interesting front page from a United Kingdom newspaper, The Independent, showing a photo that may or may not be a modern soup line waiting for handouts. The headline blatantly shouts, "United States of America 2008; The Great Depression."
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News traveled slow, Doolittle didn't / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [162] [WAYITWAS-2003-162]
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States plunged into World War II. Fighting proved difficult both in Europe and in the Pacific where forces were on the defensive. War reports trickled slowly back home [...]
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1920

Constructed in 1920 as Hotel Vacaville, later became Saturday Club and then Bank of America. On Merchant Street
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WY0157 WY0157

Senator Benjamin F. Rush came in 1852, with his parents to Solano County. Raised excellent trotting horses and Durham cattle on the Potrero Hills. Served four years as Solano Sheriff and 24 years as a State Senator. [...]

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Travel was not easy in the 1850s / Bowen, Jerry [39] [WAYITWAS-2000-39]
There has been a lot in the news lately about frustrating airport delays and gridlock on the nation's highways. Our lives have become so fast-paced even short travel interruptions are quite frustrating.
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1890 Official Map of the County of Solano California 1890 Official Map of the County of Solano California
1890

Showing Mexican Grants, United States Government, Swamp Land Surveys, Present Private Land Ownership, Roads and Railroads. Compiled by County Surveyor E.N. Eager. Colored by E.M. Sleator. Approved by the Board of Supervisors on April 7, 1890. [...]

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County grows and ruffians rile children / Delaplane, Kristin [371] [ECHOS-1998-371]
The county asked for a Suscol and Vallejo road to connect Vallejo with the steam ferry to a point on the Contra Costa shore opposite Mare Island. From there travelers would take a wagon road to Alameda County. This would mean the traveling public would have an accessible and continuous highway from Napa to San Francisco that could be traveled in as short as four hours.
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Vallejo had short-lived stint as state capital / Bowen, Jerry [782] [WAYITWAS-2007-782]
The next time you are in the area bounded by York, Santa Clara, Maine and Sacramento streets in Vallejo, you will be near a long-gone historic site. Back in 1852 a two-story building sporting two flags dominated a hill that was centrally located between those streets.
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Suisun club remains alive and well every day / Bowen, Jerry [542] [WAYITWAS-2004-542]
In the first installment of the history of the Suisun Wednesday Club we saw it evolve from a meeting of 16 civic-minded ladies who in 1911 wanted to do something positive for their community to the building in 1926 of a permanent clubhouse on Sacramento Street and Washington Avenue.
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