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In 1949, Oakland, CA, received the fifth regional dial switching center for Operator Toll Dialing in the nation, [2] which set the stage for direct distance dialing by customers in the 1950s. In 1950, the boundaries of the California numbering plan areas were redrawn to produce a division of the northern and central parts along a north–south ...
In 2003, the company rebranded the Mail Boxes, Etc. network as The UPS Store. In 2004, UPS entered the heavy freight business with the purchase of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, a former subsidiary of Menlo Worldwide; UPS rebranded it as UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The purchase price was US$150 million and the assumption of US$110 million in long ...
In March 2001, UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc., [3] which was founded in 1980 as an alternative to the post office. [4] In February 2003, UPS rebranded more than 3,000 Mail Boxes Etc. locations as The UPS Store. [5] Each location is independently owned. [6]
Robert J. Cabral Station (called Stockton – Downtown station or Stockton ACE station by Amtrak), is a railway station in Stockton, California.In 2003, the station building was named in honor of the late Robert J. Cabral, a San Joaquin County supervisor instrumental in the creation of the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE), originally Altamont Commuter Express.
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Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. [19] It is the most populous city in the county, the 11th-most populous city in California and the 60th-most populous city in the United States.
[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 ...
The Stockton Campus, featuring a tower, rose gardens, architectural columns, brick-faced buildings, and numerous [21] trees, has been used in Hollywood films, due to its aesthetic likeness to East Coast Ivy League universities: High Time, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Sure Thing, Dead Man on Campus, All the King's Men, Flubber, and Dreamscape ...