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Solano History 18 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Mr. 'Big' Running Rampant Across USA / Rico, John [884] [RICO-1981-884]
BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG EVERYTHING - In order to place this article in its proper perspective, it is necessary to go back about 50 years, and delve lightly on the economic situations which prevailed not only in the United States but around the world.
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A 'Wet' Vacaville During a 'Dry' USA / Rico, John [924] [RICO-1979-924]
"STUFF" THAT CAME TO PASS - In the early days of the fruit industry in Vacaville, ranchers took advantage of the virgin soil and planted some of their acreages to vineyards. From these vines came luscious sun-ripened, sugar-sweet grapes which found their way to fresh market. But, many of these ranchers preserved their annual ritual of pressing some of these grapes into a quantity of wine.
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Vacaville joins the electrical world / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [62] [WAYITWAS-2001-62]
Not so many years ago, the fruit ranchers living outside the city of Vacaville, if they happened to run out of flour or other household necessities during the rainy season, found it necessary to climb and hunch along on top of the fences to get in and out of town with their purchases on their backs.
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Another view of sub on big rig. Time and place unknown, (Possibly Suisun or Fairfield)
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Chinese pioneers make it big at 'Big Camp' / Delaplane, Kristin [327] [ECHOS-1997-327]
Information for this article came from material written by Peter Leung of the Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and Tony Water, a doctoral candidate at U.C. Davis' Sociology Department. All portions of this unpublished work "Chinese Pioneer Farming Families in Suisun Valley, California" are copyrighted by Peter Leung and Tony Water.
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Big Island Putah Creek Berryessa Valley Samuels Place Grandfather of Ed McGinnis
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Daring runs through Solano delivered / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [164] [WAYITWAS-2003-164]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, settlers were faced with a society that as yet could not offer many of the services they had been used to back East, such as banking and postal service.
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Events parallel those of 50 years ago / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [89] [WAYITWAS-2001-89]
I had originally intended this article to be used at the end of November around Pearl Harbor Day. But with events unfolding now, the attack in the USA by terrorists, perhaps a look at six months of news editorial excerpts 50 years ago will give a little insight as to how we got here.
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We Conquered Recession - Now It's Inflation / Rico, John [923] [RICO-1979-923]
IT COULD NOT HAPPEN HERE - Back in the period between 1920 and 1930, economic conditions in the United States were at boom stage. In fact everything was hunky-dory.
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June Was a Hot Month - More to Come / Rico, John [885] [RICO-1981-885]
THERE ARE FIGURES AND MORE FIGURES - Everyone talks about the. weather but no one can do anything about it. That's what has happened here in the month of June. The weather during the past 30 days has drawn about as much front page publicity as did the economic situation across the nation.
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