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Heinold's First and Last Chance, "Jack London's Rendezvous" While at Berkeley, London continued to study and spend time at Heinold's saloon, where he was introduced to the sailors and adventurers who would influence his writing. In his autobiographical novel, John Barleycorn, London mentioned the pub's likeness seventeen times.
California native Jack London had traveled around the United States as a hobo, returned to California to finish high school (he dropped out at age 14), and spent a year in college at Berkeley, when in 1897 he went to the Klondike by way of Alaska during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Later, he said of the experience: "It was in the ...
J. Phillip "Jack" London (April 30, 1937 – January 18, 2021) [1] was an American businessman. He joined CACI International Inc as a consultant in 1972 and rose through the ranks to become CEO in 1984. London helped the professional services firm become a $5.7 billion dollar world government contracting company providing advanced technology ...
"The South of the Slot" is a short story by American naturalist writer Jack London (1876–1916). It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 181, May, 1909. [1] In 1914, it was published by Macmillan in a collection of Jack London’s stories, The Strength of the Strong. [2]
Jack Barclay Bentley, Berkeley Square. The company was founded by its eponymous chairman in 1927 [4] as Jack Barclay Ltd with two London showrooms (the chief one being in George Street) and a service centre, later in Battersea.
Wolf House was a 26-room mansion in Glen Ellen, California, built by novelist Jack London and his wife Charmian London.The house burned on August 22, 1913, shortly before the Londons were planning to move in. [3] Stone ruins of the never-occupied home still stand, and are part of Jack London State Historic Park, which has been a National Historic Landmark since 1963.
Yoshi's (also known as Yoshi's Jazz Club and Yoshi's Oakland) is a nightclub located in Jack London Square in Oakland, California, United States. The venue originally opened in 1972 as a restaurant in Berkeley, later moving to Claremont Avenue in Oakland. In 1979, the restaurant expanded into a lounge/nightclub hosting local and national jazz ...
The Jack London home, called the Wolf House, is a sizable stone structure, which was destroyed by fire and whose ruins are visible within the state park property. The sloping terrain of the park has a considerable occurrence of Goulding clay loam soils , particularly in the lower reaches.