Legendary Locals Of Carlsbad

Author : Cynthia Mestad Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439655849

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Legendary Locals of Carlsbad by Cynthia Mestad Johnson Pdf

A collision of cultures in a seaside resort community, Carlsbad sits on a seven-mile stretch of white-sands beach idyllically located on the Pacific coast of north county San Diego. The idea of Carlsbad began in the late 1880s when two small groups of entrepreneurs ascended, simultaneously, from both the north and the south. The first group discovered natural mineral springs, which they promoted to tourists as having healing powers. As a result, the town became a very popular resting point for the rich and famous when traveling by train from Los Angeles to the famed Del Mar horse races. Subsequently, the Mexican Revolution began to the south and drove a second group of visionaries to Carlsbad. Thus, the quaint downtown area, known as the Village, was created along with a vibrant Barrio. Incorporated in 1952, Carlsbad remains, today, a tight-knit community of multigenerational and uniquely talented locals.

Author : Donna Blake Birchell and the Southeastern New Mexico Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467102261

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Legendary Locals of Carlsbad by Donna Blake Birchell and the Southeastern New Mexico Historical Society Pdf

Born from opportunity and a promotional scheme hatched by founding father Charles B. Eddy, Carlsbad started life as a tent city on a desolate landscape. As the investment money started to flow, the Pecos River was harnessed through the creation of irrigation, which turned the region into a rich, fertile valley. As tuberculosis swept the nation, hundreds of new settlers arrived in Carlsbad for the arid climate. Legendary Locals of Carlsbad celebrates their descendants who forged the community of today. Learn about socialite Cesarine Graves, daredevil and "Mr. Welcome" Frank Kindel, actors Dan Blocker and Bruce Cabot, drag racer Dick Harrell, newscaster Linda Wertheimer, astronaut F. Drew Gaffney, and baseball star Cody Ross, to name but a few. Included also are the tales of the trials and heroism shown and faced by all the veterans of wars that Carlsbad provided, especially the World War II veterans of the Bataan Death March, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Author : Donna Blake Birchell,Southeastern New Mexico Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439654019

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Legendary Locals of Carlsbad by Donna Blake Birchell,Southeastern New Mexico Historical Society Pdf

Born from opportunity and a promotional scheme hatched by founding father Charles B. Eddy, Carlsbad started life as a tent city on a desolate landscape. As the investment money started to flow, the Pecos River was harnessed through the creation of irrigation, which turned the region into a rich, fertile valley. As tuberculosis swept the nation, hundreds of new settlers arrived in Carlsbad for the arid climate. Legendary Locals of Carlsbad celebrates their descendants who forged the community of today. Learn about socialite Cesarine Graves, daredevil and “Mr. Welcome” Frank Kindel, actors Dan Blocker and Bruce Cabot, drag racer Dick Harrell, newscaster Linda Wertheimer, astronaut F. Drew Gaffney, and baseball star Cody Ross, to name but a few. Included also are the tales of the trials and heroism shown and faced by all the veterans of wars that Carlsbad provided, especially the World War II veterans of the Bataan Death March, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Author : Charlotte Tallman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467101332

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Legendary Locals of Las Cruces by Charlotte Tallman Pdf

When Las Cruces was founded 164 years ago near a group of crosses marking the graves of travelers and soldiers, a rawhide rope separated acreage for a church, a cemetery, and family lots. That rawhide rope brought to Las Cruces a new era filled with the exhilaration of the Wild West and the people who molded "the City of the Crosses." Over the decades, the number of local men, women, and children who deserve recognition as heroes of history or champions of the present is infinite, including Dr. Nathan E. Boyd, entrepreneurial creator of the Boyd Sanitarium; Gov. Susana Martinez, the first female governor of New Mexico and the first female Hispanic governor in the United States; and Letticia Martinez, a legally blind swimmer who competed with the 2012 London Paralympics Swimming Team. Like thousands of others, theirs is a story of persistent hope, courage, and desire to make a difference.

Author : Richard Melzer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439651483

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Legendary Locals of Albuquerque by Richard Melzer Pdf

Spanish settlers founded Albuquerque in 1706, making it the third of only four villas (towns) in colonial New Mexico. Located in the Rio Abajo along a wide turn on the Rio Grande, the settlement developed from a small farming community into New Mexico’s largest, most modern city. Many notable men and women participated in this remarkable growth, lending their talents and sacrificing their time, energy, and sometimes their very lives. Dozens of these legendary figures are portrayed in this unique book, with chapters devoted to those who played important roles in politics and diplomacy; the military; law and order; religion and education; art and literature; culture and entertainment; business and tourism; health, science, technology, and space; and sports. A final chapter describes several of Albuquerque’s sung and unsung heroes. The result is a collage of a Western city filled with diversity, tradition, and cultural pride.

Author : Shaun M. Jex
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439654620

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Legendary Locals of Coppell by Shaun M. Jex Pdf

Coppell has produced a wealth of personalities that could have leapt from the pages of a novel. The town’s early days brought John and Sarah Stringfellow, who helped found the town’s oldest church, and Josiah and John Record, a father-and-son duo who were victims of lynching. The coming of the Cottonbelt Railroad created the mystery of town namesake George Coppell. The town was home to farmers like domino-loving Buren Ledbetter and sharecropper W.A. Ottinger. It had its own “Floyd the Barber” (Floyd Harwell), as well as Jo Jackson, the librarian known to most as the “Bird Lady of Coppell.” The town has produced a wealth of heroes like Carroll Kirkland, who was killed in World War II, and Jacob Schick, a decorated veteran of the Iraq War. It is also a town that has turned tragedy into triumph through stories like Todd and Tara Storch, who transformed the pain of their daughter Taylor’s death into the life-giving charity Taylor’s Gift. Together their stories tell the story of Coppell, a place that at its heart will always be a small town.

Author : Alison Burns
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467100090

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Legendary Locals of Encinitas by Alison Burns Pdf

Drawn by extravagant promises of "a beautiful village of 500 inhabitants, studded with orange trees and grapevines," the Hammond family arrived in Encinitas in 1883 only to find that advertisements had rather overstated the case. Undeterred, these 11 English settlers remained and, in doing so, doubled the town's population overnight. Subsequent pioneers brought wide-ranging talents to this fledgling California coastal town--none more so than the Ecke dynasty, whose flower fields established Encinitas as the poinsettia capital of the world. Today, the city encompasses five distinct communities, and while it boasts many famous celebrities, it is the ordinary folk whose passion and daring have made Encinitas the place their forebears long ago envisaged.

Author : Evie Ybarra
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467101929

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Legendary Locals of Fillmore by Evie Ybarra Pdf

Since its beginning as a Southern Pacific Railroad town 100 years ago, Fillmore has been the setting of many legends and true tales, like the St. Francis Dam disaster, the 1994 earthquake, and the Hollywood film shoots. Joaquin Murietta hid in the hills, and the story of the T. Wallace More murder in Rancho Sespe in 1877 was the "murder of the century." Rancho Camulos, owned by the del Valle family until 1924, signifies the last of the Californios. Today, it is owned by the descendants of August Rubel. Tales of the sycamore tree abound, and it is an icon on Highway 126, as is the tower of the Sanitary Dairy, which was ordered from the Sears, Roebuck & Company in Chicago. Oil was discovered early in Shiells Canyon and brought Texaco to town. The fruit industry prospered, and Sunkist was welcomed. Hugh Warring installed indoor plumbing in the Piru Mansion. The likes of "Booty" Sanchez, Marcelino "Woody" Ybarra, Gene Wren, Kevin Gross, Jim Fauver, and Dorothy Shiells still influence the community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Arizona
ISBN : UCD:31175020679349

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USA, Arizona and New Mexico by Anonim Pdf

Author : Divina Infusino
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781461747475

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Day Trips® from Orange County, CA by Divina Infusino Pdf

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Orange County. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover all within a 2-hour drive. .

Author : Dave Shively
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493026821

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The Pacific Alone by Dave Shively Pdf

In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. Gillet, at the age of 36 an accomplished sailor and paddler, navigated by sextant and always knew his position within a few miles. Still, Gillet underestimated the abuse his body would take from the relentless, pounding, swells of the Pacific, and early into his voyage he was covered with salt water sores and found that he could find no comfortable position for sitting or sleeping. Along the way he endured a broken rudder, among other calamities, but at last reached Maui on his 63rd day at sea, four days after his food had run out. Dave Shively brings Gillet’s remarkable story to life in this gripping narrative, based on exclusive access to Gillet’s logs as well as interviews with the legendary paddler himself.

Author : Betsy Gordon,Jane Rogers
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781588347213

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Four Wheels and a Board by Betsy Gordon,Jane Rogers Pdf

A bold look at the creative, controversial, and vibrant history of skateboarding, and the amazing skaters who continually reinvent it Skateboarding isn't just a recreational activity, but a professional sport, lifestyle, art form, and cultural phenomenon. The striking book Four Wheels and a Board captures its spirited history, iconic skateboarders, diverse community, and the palpable passion of the people who love it. It includes contributions from the most influential names in the game, including Rodney Mullen, Tony Hawk, Mimi Knoop, and more. The gorgeously designed book presents objects, artifacts, and photographs from the Smithsonian’s collections that exemplify the vitality and innovation of skate culture. Book chapters are organized chronologically by decade from the '60s to present day, starting with 20th-century surfboards, moving through technological changes, the disappearance of skate parks, the rise of social media and collaborations, and ending with never-before-seen objects from the 2020 Summer Olympics, where skateboarding made its historic Olympic debut. Largely invented by youth, skateboarding has attracted punks, misfits, and dreamers looking for somewhere to belong. The book features skateboards and skaters who open dialogues about race, the gender binary, queerness, the displacement of Native people, and so much more, shining a light on people and places not often represented in traditional skateboard history. Four Wheels and a Board is a fresh look at a transformative culture, and one hell of a ride.

Author : Steve Sorensen
Publisher : Picacho
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780962941887

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A Branch of the Sky by Steve Sorensen Pdf

The day he finished high school in 1967, Steve Sorensen began a fifty-year adventure in the southern Sierra Nevada. After learning to rock climb in Yosemite Valley, Sorensen went on to spend fourteen years working for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, where he became the leader of a backcountry crew, a skilled tree faller, an emergency medical technician, a wildland firefighter, a backcountry snow surveyor, and a mule packer. Working with park botanists, he developed new techniques for restoring damaged meadows, and his crews rehabilitated miles of eroded trails throughout the parks. Later he wrote the first two hiking guidebooks for the park’s frontcountry trails. Sorensen’s heartfelt tales of life in the southern Sierra Nevada are told with style and humor, both informative and touching at the same time. Though his blunt criticism of the National Park Service might anger some, many park employees will recognize the honesty and accuracy of his observations. A Branch of the Sky is infused with the love and respect Sorensen felt for his friends and coworkers, many of whom he lost to accidents and disease. How he made his peace with their ghosts is a unique and captivating story, beautifully told.

Author : Ian Anderson
Publisher : Moon Travel
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781631210891

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Moon San Diego by Ian Anderson Pdf

Catch a wave, explore the buzzing craft beer scene, or just hang loose on the beach. Whether you're seeking thrills or kicking back, get a taste of the SoCal lifestyle with Moon San Diego. Inside you'll find: Flexible, strategic itineraries including the best of the city, beaches, and breweries, plus ideas for family-friendly fun The top sights and unique experiences: Swim at Ocean Beach or kayak around La Jolla Cove. Hop on the San Diego Trolley to explore historic Old Town, shop for Mexican pottery, or take a surfing lesson. Snap a pic with the pandas and polar bears at the renowned San Diego Zoo and stroll through the museums in Balboa Park Get a Taste of the City: Savor authentic Baja-style cuisine or belly up to the window of a food truck for fresh fish tacos Bars and Nightlife: Sample a flight of craft beers at a trendy brewery, bar crawl along Pacific Beach or in the Gaslamp Quarter, or watch a movie under the stars at one of the city's outdoor cinemas Local insight from brew enthusiast, avid surfer, and San Diego native Ian Anderson Day trips from San Diego: Taste wines in Temecula, enjoy the wildflowers in Anza-Borrego State Park, or cross the border into Tijuana Honest advice on when to go, where to stay, and how to get around Maps and Tools like background information on the history and culture of the city, easy-to-read maps, full-color photos, and neighborhood guides from historic Old Town to seaside Coronado With Moon San Diego's practical tips and local know-how, you can experience the best of the city. Can't enough of the Golden State? Try Moon California. Hitting the road? Try Moon Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip.

Author : Julie Moss,Robert Yehling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781681779218

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Crawl of Fame: Julie Moss and the Fifteen Feet that Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend by Julie Moss,Robert Yehling Pdf

The courageous and transformative story of triathlon hall-of-fame athlete Julie Moss. In 1982, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky, even crazy; only a handful of hardcore, highly trained enthusiasts competed in the little-known, 140.6-mile combination of swimming, cycling, and running. Julie brought no experience or appreciable training beyond running two marathons. She did bring a latent willpower that, the world soon found out, wouldn’t be denied. What happened next changed Ironman forever . . . After becoming the unlikely leader during the marathon, the final leg of the Ironman, Julie fell and lost all bodily function fifteen meters (50 feet) from the finish. While on hands and knees, she watched her rival pass her. Thirty seconds later, she crawled across the line—stunning the millions who were watching on television. At age twenty-three, Julie became the instant global icon, and the public face of fitness and endurance sports — which exploded in popularity, partly because of her inspiration. That this young co-ed would represent such a new sport was unlikely. That she would inspire millions to change the courses of their lives in the three decades years since was unthinkable. Yet, it happened. And keeps happening. In April 2017 Julie won her age group in the Ironman North American Championships—racing 25 minutes faster than her 1982 Ironman. How does a 58-year-old woman beat the time of her 23-year-old self? Which begs the question, could she also beat her 1982 time in the more demanding Kona? That’s the goal, and the world will find out in October 2018. Crawl of Fame is the long-awaited release of her incredible story. Julie describes how she found her greater purpose while lying across the finish line at Ironman 1982 — and how that greater purpose as a woman, athlete, endurance sports symbol and, now, iconic figure has defined her life and inspired others since. Several endurance sports athletes have written memoirs, but none have changed a sport so dramatically as Julie Moss. Now, readers will join the inner and outer journey of one of the world’s most impressive athletes, a woman who has already inspired millions — with millions more to come.