Monthly Archives: February 2008

….Pescadero during Prohibition….(6)

[I wrote this in 1977.] Two years after the Great Blaze of 1926, sheriff’s officers followed a guide who led them over a trail covered with a tangled mass of ferns, shrubs and fallen trees. As the deputies hiked carefully … Continue reading

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…When the forest wouldn’t come to Burt, he went to the forest…

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This is How John Vonderlin Has Fun at the Beach….

John Vonderlin Tells Us How He Has Fun At The Beach email John ([email protected]) Hi June, I had so much fun on the Palmer Gulch trip, I thought I should fully chronicle the rest of my half day at the … Continue reading

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…Pescadero during Prohibition (5)

[I wrote this in 1977.] Rumrunners, bootleggers and raids by the liquor police remained topic number one on the South Coast until March 1926 when a quick-spreading fire rallied the small community to save the little town of Pescadero. A … Continue reading

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….Pescadero during Prohibition….(4)

[Note: I wrote this in 1977.] The how, where and when of landing illegal booze along the Pescadero coast was not something the locals openly talked about–but there were plenty of whispers about an isolated ranch house which reportedly served … Continue reading

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Pilmigrage to the Palmer Gulch Trestle by John Vonderlin

Story by John Vonderlin (email John: [email protected]) Hi June, We made a pilgrimage to the remains of the Palmer Gulch Trestle yesterday to get some pictures before nature completely erases these most southerly structural signs of the Ocean Shore Railroad’s … Continue reading

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Remembering the Vicious, Unforgiving Storm of 1998 By John Vonderlin

Riding the Storm Story by John Vonderlin (email John: [email protected]) Meg attended a ten- year anniversary memorial this weekend for the mudslides and flooding that devastated her house and neighborhood in La Honda, during the famous El Nino-generated disaster of … Continue reading

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Lost and Found……Story by John Vonderlin

Story by John Vonderlin Email John ([email protected]) The stickerreads: Constructed NOVEMBER1998 Capacity: 150 gallons Materials: 1/8th Inch 5052 ALUMINUM Custumer No.: FARALLON BOATS Serial No.: 132745 COASTLINE EQUIPMENT INC. Bellingham, Washington Last week when I was cleaning up tar balls … Continue reading

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Amazing People: The Steeles, the 2-ton cheese & other legends e & Other Tales

[I wrote this in 2003.] When Colonel Albert S. Evans learned that the Steele Brothers Dair at Ano Nuevo had produced a huge two-ton cheese in the 1860s, the author insisted on meeting Rensselaer Steele, owner of the famous Cascade … Continue reading

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……..Wet………

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