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Email John Vonderlin ([email protected]) Email Russell Towle ([email protected]) John Vonderlin (JV) The attached file is a Google Earth photo of Ano Nuevo Island showing the water cachment next to the Fog Whistle building. I assume the sloped larger light area … Continue reading →

Story by Russell Towle email Russell ([email protected]) June, another recollection or two from my days at Año Nuevo Point, 1970-72. Of Winds and Whales The prevailing west winds of temperate latitudes are most often northwest winds, along the Central California … Continue reading →

Virtual Ano Nuevo, Virtual Parks Story by John Vonderlin email John ([email protected]) Panorama of Ano Nuevo’s Middle Beach, click here Hi Russell, I don’t know what kind of speed connection this site whose URL is below needs, but if you … Continue reading →

John Vonderlin-Russell Towle Q&A email John ([email protected]) email Russell ([email protected]) John Vonderlin (JV):   Thanks, Russell, for the answers to my questions. As I thought, your cabin was in the heart of the “Forbidden Zone.”  When I look at the … Continue reading →

By June Morrall After the Levy brothers came to town, the trouble down at Pebble Beach typically went like this: The locals ripped up the gate blocking the entrance. Loren Coburn sent one of his men to fix it. Oh, … Continue reading →

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? … Continue reading →

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’ … Continue reading →