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"Uncle" Jim O'Neal founded the Rural Rhythm label in 1955 in Arcadia, California. [1] He sold via mail order, records were often produced with a generic white front sleeve with a stamped serial number in the upper right corner. [2] O'Neal insisted records would sell for $3.50 apiece (as opposed to major label records that sold for $3.98 to $4.98).
The California Bluegrass Association has sponsored dozens of bluegrass festivals since its inception. The organization's main festival, held every Father's Day Weekend in June, is a four-day event at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California. This festival annually features a line-up of national and regional acts in the ...
David Freeman (May 22, 1939 – December 25, 2023) was an American collector, historian, and authority on old-time and bluegrass music.Freeman started the County Records label in 1963 in his native New York to focus on Southern string band music, and began the companion mail-order record retail company County Sales in 1965. [1]
San Joaquin County (/ ˌ s æ n hw ɑː ˈ k iː n / ⓘ SAN whah-KEEN; Spanish: San Joaquín, meaning "St. Joachim"), officially the County of San Joaquin, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 779,233. [8] The county seat is Stockton. [9]
Stockton is also seat of San Joaquin County, for which the government of San Joaquin County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution and law as a general law county. The county government provides countywide services such as elections and voter registration, law enforcement, jails, vital records, property records, tax ...
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Solid line shows rail route from Stockton to Bakersfield. Hanford station in 1910. The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad was a California rail line between Stockton and Bakersfield constructed in the late 1890s and very shortly thereafter purchased by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and became their Valley Division. [1] [2]
Carlos Maria Weber founded Stockton when he acquired and settled Rancho Campo de los Franceses. Rancho Campo de los Franceses was a 48,747-acre (197.27 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Joaquin County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Guillermo Gulnac. [1] "Campo de los Franceses” which in English means ...