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Memories of Chinese Shuffling Off to Work / Rico, John [895] [RICO-1981-895]
Aditty was frequently recited here by youngsters in our Yesteryear when the many male Chinese who resided here sported a hairdo known as a queue (pigtail). And, too, that's when long hair was an oddity on any young boy or man.
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Chinese man in buggy
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Familiar Names of Yesteryear Buried in History / Rico, John [901] [RICO-1981-901]
LIKE FALLING LEAVES - Most of today's residents of Vacaville, being newcomers, would express an opinion that many of the store owners throughout the business community have been here for a long time. But, it is surprising, and a fact, that the mortality rate up and down those streets, has been exceptionally high.
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Time Marches On - Memories Ever-Present / Rico, John [916] [RICO-1979-916]
IT SEEMS LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY - Today the sirens will shriek; stores will close for a few hours; there's going to be a jovial mood in the atmosphere. It's an event which I alone will categorize as a momentous one - I am 70 years of age.
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Chinese enjoy long history in Vacaville / Delaplane, Kristin [405] [ECHOS-1998-405]
'My grandfather came to America in the 1850s to look for gold. He wanted $200 in gold to buy land in China. He stayed a year, got his $200 and went home to the family he had started there.
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Memorial Days In Vallejo / Wichels, Ernest [802] [WICHELS-1964-802]
Decoration Day was made a fixed celebration on May 5, 1868, when Commander-in-Chief John A. Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a general order designating May 30, 1868, "for the purpose of strewing with flowers the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country." Some 15 years later the G.A.R. asked that the name of this annual observance be changed to "Memorial Day," but here in 1964-about 80 years later-we still find many old timers calling it "Decoration Day."
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Oral history gives look at Chinese culture / Delaplane, Kristin [406] [ECHOS-1998-406]
'There was a big Chinese laundry in town where the McBride Senior Center is. It was called Quong Sing Chinese Laundry. Two or three people worked in the washroom and there were about four ironers.
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Beloved memories of growing up in Vallejo / Delaplane, Kristin [353] [ECHOS-1997-353]
'My father, Fred Fisch, was a tailor. He was born in Austria-Hungary, now a part of Poland, and he learned his trade over there. "He had an aunt living in New York and when he was 17, she had him come over here. "He worked back there and then he came out to Oakland and San Francisco.
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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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Golden Christmas memories of Sutter / Bowen, Jerry [51] [WAYITWAS-2000-51]
The following is a very condensed and edited version of an article from the San Francisco Examiner by John Bonner, in 1897. The surprise ending of the story causes one to wonder if John Sutter knew something more than he let on prior to James Marshall's historic discovery of gold at Coloma that started the gold rush to California - Editor.
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