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The Steamboats of California. Including those on the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River and their tributaries, Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, San Francisco Bay and the Colorado River. Steamboats and steam ferries also operated in San Diego Bay, San Pedro Bay, Humboldt Bay and elsewhere on the California Coast.
According to the January 11, 1854, Sacramento Daily Union, the first steamboat in California, besides the Sitka, was the Pioneer brought out in pieces from Boston, and put together at the West Point, in Benicia, and launched there in August, 1849, by the "Edward Everett Company". She was a side-wheeler, 70 feet in length, 25 feet beam, with an ...
The Attic (defunct) – a former 1,200 seat Smörgåsbord restaurant in West Vancouver, British Columbia, that was open from 1968 to 1981; Fresh Choice (defunct) – a former chain of buffet-style restaurants which operated in California, Washington, and Texas under the names Fresh Choice, Fresh Plus, Fresh Choice Express, and Zoopa
Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the California Transportation Company's service between Sacramento and San Francisco, California. She entered service in 1927 and continued until 1940.
A Golden Corral buffet is coming to Fresno — finally. The popular national restaurant is planning to open a location in the former HomeTown Buffet spot on West Shaw Avenue. It’s near Marty ...
Last June, he said he decided to open a buffet in the East Peoria space – situated at 206 W. Camp St. The location was once home to Grand Village Buffet, which closed just over five years ago.
Watson's Ferry was a former settlement, river ferry and steamboat landing on Fresno Slough near its confluence with the San Joaquin River nearby to the northeast of modern Mendota in what is now Fresno County, California. Watson's Ferry was located 8 miles southeast of Firebaugh. [1]: 201 [2]: 99, 279
Luby’s. This cafeteria-style buffet has a long, storied history in its home state of Texas. The first Luby’s opened in the ’40s, and the chain ballooned to more than 200 locations in the mid ...