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The station installed a T-type transmitting antenna at the corner of Weber Avenue and E Street in Stockton, which went into service in 1931. The antenna was strung between two 60-meter-tall (200 ft) wooden poles placed at either end of the transmission building, and connected to the transmitter by a line that ran through a hole in the building ...
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Richmond Turner was born in Portland, Oregon on May 27, 1885, to Enoch and Laura Frances (née Kelly) Turner. His father alternated between being a rancher and farmer, and working as a printer in both Portland (for The Oregonian with his older brother Thomas) and Stockton, California (where he owned a small print shop).
Charley Turner (1 January 1862 – 13 August 1913) was an African American boxer who claimed to be the colored middleweight champion of the World in the Gay Nineties. Born in Stockton, California in 1862, Turner was known as "the Stockton Cyclone". He fought out of Stockton at a weight of between 148 and 156 lbs. during his career, which would ...
Melvin Belli (1907–1996), lawyer known as "The King of Torts"; Benjamin Holt (1849–1920), inventor and founder of Holt Manufacturing Company; Tillie Ehrlich Lewis (1901–1977), businesswoman, founder of Tillie Lewis Foods
Children's Home of Stockton (1912), 430 North Pilgrim Street. Designed by architect Edgar B. Brown, who is also known for designing the Stockton Hotel (1910) and the Knox-Baxter-Sullivan Mansion (1910) at 205 East Magnolia Street. The building was added to the city register by resolution number 99–0312 on June 22, 1999.
Paul Turner Sargent (July 23, 1880 – February 7, 1946) was an Illinois artist, known for his Illinois landscapes and various other images from his trips to California, Indianapolis, and Florida. Throughout his career, he was a true outdoorsman who used nature as his canvas and muse for most of his works.
[8] [2] The Stockton streetcar operations were taken over by Stockton Electric Railroad (by then an SP Subsidiary) in 1929. [9] Interurban service ceased on February 4, 1933, [10] [1] but local streetcars continued to run in Sacramento until the service was acquired by National City Lines in 1943. [11] Electric service ended on December 22 ...