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The PVHA was founded in 1940 [1] by the local chapter of the Native Sons of the Golden West encouraged by the Watsonville Woman's Club. The PVHA incorporated in 1956. The PVHA incorporated in 1956. In 1964, Helen Haynes Volck Tucker donated her home to the group to be used as a museum, which was dedicated on July 4, 1965.
1936 Bon Voyage Banquet for Mr & Mrs Joe Shoong & family. As a strategy for keeping prices low, Shoong had most of the stores’ merchandise manufactured in a company-owned factory in San Francisco's Chinatown rather than importing goods from outside of the U.S. [8] In an interview for the Oakland Tribune in 1924, Shoong explained, “From manufacturer direct to the consumer, is the plan ...
Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, in the Monterey Bay Area of the Central Coast of California. [2] The population was 52,590 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] Predominantly Latino and Democratic , Watsonville is a self-designated sanctuary city .
A Golden Corral has long been on the wish list of Fresnans, who seem to love their buffets. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Fresno Bee asked readers what stores and restaurants they wanted to ...
One of the area's earliest settlers was Charles Langley, a Watsonville banker, who also operated the Prunedale post office, [9] which opened in 1894, closed in 1908, and re-opened in 1953. [6] Langley helped establish the Watsonville post office mail service in Prunedale. [9] Langley Canyon Road in Prunedale is named after the Langley family.
Born in 1875 in Watsonville, California, Lee was a son of Chinese immigrants. [4] Lee's parents had started a laundry and grocery business in Watsonville, but they moved many times before finally settling in Ripon, California. In his youth, Lee had run away from home after growing pressure from his father to leave school and work full-time.
The house was built in 1848–1849 by Juan José Castro. His father Jose Joaquin Castro (1768–1838), came to California as a 6-year-old with his family from Sinaloa Mexico on the 1775–1776 Anza Expedition. Jose Joaquín Castro received this Mexican land grant Rancho San Andrés in the area of present-day Watsonville, California.
In the latter part of the 19th century, however, British Columbia also came to be referred to as "Gold Mountain" following the discovery of gold in the Fraser Canyon in the 1857 and the subsequent group of Chinese from San Francisco arriving by boat in June 1858, and further Chinese settlers coming from California and directly from China later ...