http://pescaderomemories.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:23:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few years ago while I was interviewing Daylight Nursery’s John Muller, the conversation turned to local legends. (John Muller was born in San Gregorio in 1946) HalfMoonBayMemories (HMBM):  When you were growing up, what was your favorite Coastside story? JohnMuller (JM):   Pomponio leaving behind a buried treasure. HMBM: What kind of treasure? JM: ... http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/30/did-pomponio-leave-behind-buried-treasure-local-legend-thinks-so/ http://vimeo.com/1167543[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1167543[/vimeo] http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/29/meet-the-produce-guy-from-new-leaf-market-in-hmb/ http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/29/garden-pot-of-cacti/ In the 1920s people looked for black gold---oil---in the Purissima-Tunitas Creek country. Notes from 1884-88 (San Mateo Times & Gazette?) May 1884: Purissima Oil Co. (with offices on Montgomery St. in San Francisco) started "sinking" for oil on George Shoults' land. Purissima Oil bought the necessary machinery from the Bald Mountain Co., which ... http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/28/1920s-coastside-oil-operations/ Check this out... Click here http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/27/coastside-writers-print-your-own-book-in-minutes/ By June Morrall In the 1890s the Pescaderans looked forward to the coming of the railroad, an event that would solve their economic isolation, but there had  been disappointments. Local lumberman Alvinza Hayward began the grading work for a railroad when he ran out of money to complete the project. A loquacious ... http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/26/the-coburn-mystery-chapter-45-2/ I wrote this in 1999 Giant Dedication to the Redwoods By June Morrall "Memorial Park. July 4, 1924, dedicated in honor of those who gave their lives in the defense of freedom and liberty." It was school's Superintendent Roy Cloud's mandate to visit all the county's classrooms, even those in areas so remote that ... http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/24/july-4-1924-memorial-park/ http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/24/1930s-pigeon-point-from-the-perspective-of-the-rocks/ Story & photos by John Vonderlin Email John (benloudman@sbcglobal.net) Hi June, Some time ago I posted a story*** about what I consider the most viewed Sea Arch on the San Mateo coast. I maintained that this arch was the one on the promontory that forms the southern bank of Pescadero Creek where it flows ... http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/23/is-it-a-tunnel-or-isnt-it-a-tunnel-only-its-makers-know-for-sure/ http://pescaderomemories.com/2008/06/23/cowgirl-desk/