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Author | : Joanna Kalafatis |
Publisher | : America Through Time |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781634990912 |
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"Driving through Northern California, you will find sprawling military bases, immense wineries, gold mining towns, and amusement parks all lying abandoned. The combination of different people and industries this part of the state has been home to over the years is intriguingly odd. The ruins that lie in the area today reflect the various ways people attempted to build their future in Northern California--not unlike the innovative ways people still try to build their future in the area today. Whether that involves a cool new start-up, a prominent place in the local, internationally respected wine industry, or seeking inspiration for an amazing new book, all kinds of diverse characters come here to dream and innovate. If there is one thing this cross-section of humanity who flocked to the state had in common, it is the will to forge ahead into the unknown. Inventors, military men, gold prospectors, entrepreneurs--they all, in their own ways, took their risks and chances in this newer part of the USA, to create a life, a business, a work of art or science that had never been done before. This is the legacy that has formed Northern California today."
Author | : Susan Drew, Philip Varney, John Drew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : |
Genre | : California, Northern |
ISBN | : 9781610600804 |
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A travel guide to northern California's 50 deserted mining towns, plus the "ghost prison" of Alcatraz and a couple of Chinese fishing villages in the San Francisco Bay area.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-07-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 076034082X |
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"A guide to the best ghost towns of California. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to explore these sites, including maps, directions, history, and photos"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Manol Z. Manolov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781634992190 |
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This is a book that takes the reader to destinations in Northern California that most people seldom visit or are even aware of. Venturing into these abandoned worlds, Manol Z. Manolov explores the forgotten historical legacy of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This region, now known for its technology, was once a place of naval bases, military installations, and one of the oldest shipyards in the state of California. Through original photographs and words, the author paints a picture of a disappearing world that not only conveys the stories of local life, the way it used to be, but also raises important questions about the attitudes and mentalities that led to the disappearance of places once so vital to the livelihood of the area. A telling account of the transition from Cold War enterprise to Silicon Valley exuberance, this book presents another, much lesser-known side of the place most now regard as the center of high-tech innovation.
Author | : Charles A. Stansfield |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2009-01-21 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 081174079X |
Download Haunted Southern California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is there a shadow over this sunny land of healthful vigor and natural abundance? This region includes the Central Coast, the San Joaquin Valley, and metropolitan Los Angeles and San Diego, where readers will encounter the spirits of gold prospectors, cowboys, Spanish padres, and movie stars, as well as the phantom camels of Fort Tejon, the shape-shifting witch of Tulare, underwater UFOs, ghosts aboard the Queen Mary, and the tragic specter of Marilyn Monroe.
Author | : Philip Varney |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : California, Northern |
ISBN | : 9780896584440 |
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A pictorial discovery guide through about 50 of Northern California's most
Author | : Joanna Kalafatis |
Publisher | : America Through Time |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781634990684 |
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"From prospectors' haunts in old ghost towns dating back to the Gold Rush, to the now-almost-deserted roadside towns of Route 66, the history of Southern California lives on through its abandoned towns and buildings. Through old settlements and institutions, now left to decay in the high desert or even in the middle of bustling, glamorous Los Angeles, readers can get a glimpse into the waves of migration that shaped the spirit of Southern California. The story of the state seems to repeat throughout different decades: California was perceived as the land of unlimited opportunities and renewed hope for incoming migrants, yet often led to a harsher and more challenging existence in real life. Nevertheless, the dreamers and fortune seekers who moved out West, whether for gold, land, spiritual reasons, health, or to escape the rapidly spiraling East Coast during the Great Depression, always persisted. As they moved from one location to the next to seek their fortune, their ambitions, failures, and lives became encased in the places they left behind. This book is the story of those people and places, and the enduring forces that created California as it is today."--Back cover.
Author | : Margaret Laplante |
Publisher | : America Through Time |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781634993616 |
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It was as if the word GOLD echoed around the world as people came to the Pacific Northwest in droves in search of sudden wealth in the 1850s. Thousands of Chinese men came to America dreaming of the wealth that had eluded them in their native land. They traveled far in search of Gum Shan, also known as Gold Mountain. They worked mining for gold, building railroads, logging, and in agriculture and factories. They planted vineyards and cleared the delta, diverting water so that crops could grow on land where only water had been. They dug canals so water could be diverted for agriculture; installed irrigation for orchards; and worked in the fishing industry and in canneries. They worked as servants in private homes, in hotels and restaurants, and operated laundries, restaurants, markets, and other businesses.
Author | : Marques Vickers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-06-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781538028841 |
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"Desolate Barns of the American West" is a photographic celebration of abandoned barns and silos located in rural Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Author and photographer Marques Vickers' 200+ images spotlight 56 structures set amidst a backdrop of panoramic mountain, turbulent river and sagebrush flatlands. Vickers' work was motivated by a Spring 2017 excursion into the profiled states. The focus of Vickers' photography is to isolate the abandoned and frequently decaying remnants of a uniquely national architecture treasure. The author stresses in his preface that barns and silos represents a truer icon of the American rural tradition than film and media portrayed frontier and cowboy culture. The author explains his personal fascination for the subject in the preface: "I became captivated by the shadows the structures cast on a changed frontier. American agriculture has become forever transformed by advanced machinery and technology. These remaining stately buildings represent a crossroads between traditional rural lifestyle and the effects of modernity." "In several instances, timber framed structures are left to deteriorate organically into the landscape from which they were constructed. Some ultimately collapse into splinted heaps before dismantlement, weakened by their disintegrating structural support. Their corrosion is fully exposed to the camera lens' scrutiny, but does not necessarily translate into ugliness." The photographic work is intended to showcase a distinctively American western architecture that still commands a distinctive aesthetic. The poetic simplicity of each construction represents to the author a dignified metaphor personifying the human aging process, particularly as each structure blends harmoniously into the natural surroundings. The isolation and expansive landscape of the American northwest provides an evocative comparison to contemporary confined urban and suburban environments.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-07-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 076034082X |
Download Ghost Towns of California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A guide to the best ghost towns of California. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to explore these sites, including maps, directions, history, and photos"--Provided by publisher.