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Solano History 22 records found  1 - 10nextend  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Remembering the Good Old School Days / Rico, John [876] [RICO-1981-876]
School days, good old golden rule days. An estimated 9,000 Vacaville area elementary and high school students will go back to their classes next Tuesday. No one is able to predict whether registrations will be up or down. With home building here at a near stagnant position, there actually could be a decline in registrations for the fall semesters.
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'Good old days' were not always good / Bowen, Jerry [195] [WAYITWAS-2003-195]
We like to reminisce about the "good old days" and indeed many of the earlier times were in fact just that.
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'Esther Days' Will Long Be Remembered / Rico, John [918] [RICO-1979-918]
BOOK LEARNIN - Vacaville residents cannot say they have been deprived of access to book learning throughout our past history. Events will prove that as far back as 1858 there were attempts made to provide a library service to the few people who resided here. The Women's Christian Temperance Union also had a part in seeking to provide such facilities here.
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Remember When a Day's Pay Was $1.25? / Rico, John [911] [RICO-1979-911]
LET'S TALK INFLATION - If you noted the following prices in today's newspaper, you would know someone was out on a lark and wanting to have some fun. But, these prices actually appeared in advertisements in The Reporter back in 1932: pound of coffee 19c, loaf of bread 10c, pound of beef stew 9c, pound of bacon 14c, fresh pumpkin pie 15c, head of lettuce 4c, can of olives 9c, pound of butter 22c, bunch of vegetables 2c, a pack of cigarettes 10c, and you could send Junior to the Vacaville Theatre for 10c. That all added up to $1.24.
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Remembering past Independence Days / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [79] [WAYITWAS-2001-79]
Celebrating July Fourth with a lavish display involving the whole community has a long tradition in Vacaville.
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Christmas - A Time for Remembering Friends / Rico, John [906] [RICO-1979-906]
I fail to become excited over poetry, but the lines above are of interest because they were written in 1960 by a man who was not only familiar to me, but to the entire community. It was the late C.J. Uhl, extensive rancher and Vacaville councilman and mayor who wrote this bit of wisdom, and although written nearly 20 years ago, his thoughts could well fit into today's atmosphere.
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The 'Hostages' We Held In 1942 / Rico, John [900] [RICO-1981-900]
REMEMBER THE HOSTAGES WE HELD? The American people were relieved and gratified at the release of 52 hostages held in Iran for 444 days. The events leading up to the captive actions and the eventual release, have been printed many times, and shown equally as many times on television. But let's take a trip back into 1942 and briefly review the roll the American government took in holding hostage several thousand innocent Japanese, 333 of them being residents of Vacaville, which included old men in wheel chairs, women, children and babes in arms.
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Solano sprouted food, good times in 1864 / Delaplane, Kristin [349] [ECHOS-1997-349]
According to the 1864 assessment, the total value of property in Solano County was $2,629,185.12. The taxes would come to $90,766.33. About 1,000 tons of wheat and 200 tons of barley were stored in Lewis Pierce's warehouse in Suisun that early fall. In addition, a large quantity had already been shipped to San Francisco.
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Remembering Cement, Tolenas and Tidewater Railroad / Dingler, Nancy [478] [RETROSPECT-2003-478]
One day in 1900, representatives of the Steiger Terra Cotta and Pottery Works of San Francisco visited local rancher A.A. Dickie. The Steiger people had learned that Dickie had a rich deposit of lime on his property. It turned out to be a very rich find indeed, the consequence of which a company was formed, called the Eureka Portland Cement Co.
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Choice of good land bears fruit / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [702] [WAYITWAS-2007-702]
In March of 1885, the Vacaville newspaper California Judicion investigated the reason for rising land values in the Vacaville area. A reporter set out to interview several prominent local orchardists.
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