20 hours ago by Paul Starling

(view of the original mission cemetery) (the mission today, with school to the left) For a long time now I have been interested in California history and more specifically the California Missions. Lots of people find my interest a little odd and often ask what it is about the missions that attracts ...

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8 days ago by lynette77

Hans Koster has put together a great website on “ Sunny Fortuna” and given me the ok to use some of the photos they’ve got posted. It is actually pretty easy to recognize this spot, as it is still the location where Hwy 101 crosses the Van Duzen River just south of Fortuna. Notice the horse and wago ...

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9 days ago by lynette77

Bull's Meat Market I don’t that a business strictly dedicated to the sale of meat would go over so well in Arcata today, but this sure is a great old photo. If you click the photo, and then keep clicking, you’ll be able to enlarge it enough to see all the great detail. The ranch hand figures on top ...

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13 days ago by lynette77

Okay, maybe every once in a while there is a building that can’t be saved. The source of the photo was Humboldt State University, so this was likely around here somewhere. It also looks like silt has built up around the front of the first building… Flood? Exceptionally high tide? I wish I knew where ...

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14 days ago by lynette77

I receive This Old House magazine and one of the “Thirty lessons learned in 30 years of TOH TV” is that restoring an old house is a good investment. The article points out that not long ago (1970s) razing old buildings to make way for “progress” was common. Many local buildings, such as the original ...

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16 days ago by lynette77

Mill workers, young and old My grandfather on my mother’s side was born in 1917 and made it as far as eighth grade graduation before dropping out of school completely. For his generation, his education level wasn’t that bad, though it did set him up for an early life of odd jobs and scraping by to f ...

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22 days ago by steve

Hard to believe in just 37 days the first decade of the 21st century will end. Seems like only yesterday we were partying like it was 1999 (wait, it was 1999) and in a panic about the Y2K meltdown. Now here we are on the verge of 2010. In the blink of an eye, a decade has flown by. It’s been ten yea ...

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23 days ago by steve

Wes Hagen, at Clos Pepe, sent me (and also Mr. Laube) a PDF of an old wine book he stumbled across. “It’s an 1892 book on the evaluation of wine, written in CA!,” Wes wrote. “Note his suggestion of a 6 point and 10 point wine evaluation scale. I’m sure you guys get questions all the time about ‘poin ...

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28 days ago by lynette77

As a mother I often wonder what it takes to create a decent human being. What lessons should be taught by parents, and which can only be learned by experience. There is no magical book for parents, and so often we just cross our fingers and keep moving forward. I recently ran across a paper entitled ...

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29 days ago by lynette77

Arcata Wharf and Ferry Yesterday I wrote about the Arcata wharf and railroad. According to the City of Arcata Website, the first “train” for that railroad was a four-wheel car powered by a single horse. “Passengers coming from Eureka to Arcata on the ferry… were met by the horse-drawn car and taken ...

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