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Location, you ask?
Northern (Superior) California: about 40 miles south of Sacramento, 90 miles east of San Francisco, 25 miles north of Modesto. The 1849 Gold Rush gateway to the Motherlode of the Sierrra Nevada foothills. The most inland sea-going ship port in California, on the eastern edge of the San Joaquin-Sacramento river delta. Historical home of the Bank of Italy that rescued a struggling San Franciso bank after the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which became the Bank of America. Home of the Holt family (at least the co-inventors of the caterpilllar tread driven farm, construction, and military equipment (tanks, etc.). Home of the Grupe and Spanos real estate families and companies. Originally Tuleburg, locally believed to be the Mudville of Case At The Bat fame, my home town, now called - Stockton.
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