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Ed’s Tavern, corner of San Pablo Dam Road and Castro Road (now Valley View) around 1940. There are many bars in El Sobrante, but Ed’s is the oldest, having once been a road house when the San Pablo Dam Road was known as the San Pablo Creek Road....
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Moraga Library Chronology:
County Library opens Moraga Branch in grocery store (January –August 1918).
County Library provides library service in a room located at the back of Moraga post office (1936-1944).
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph offers...
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El Sobrante Library Chronology:
County Library establishes a station in the home of Mrs. Blanche Burg (December 1938).
Station closes when Mrs. Burg takes a war job (September 1943).
El Sobrante Garden Club sponsors new station in a small building...
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Richmond Farm Creamery staff with vehicles pictured on San Pablo Dam Road in 1933. Soren Skow was a Danish immigrant who established a dairy, around 1899, on land leased along what was to become the San Pablo Reservoir. When the dam was completed...
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Thode ranch, 1880s. H.N. Thode was a German immigrant who built this home at what is now the corner of Valley View Road and Olinda Road. House is still standing and is the oldest standing home in El Sobrante. Thode and wife Elsabe are probably...
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1962 photograph of the recently opened Lafayette Library building on Moraga Road.
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1962 photograph of the interior of the Lafayette Library on Moraga Road a month after opening.
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Oakley Library Chronology:
County Library establishes Oakley Branch Library (November 1913).
Library moves to Oakley Woman’s Club (1916).
Oakley Library moves to a new space in the former Oakley School building on East Ruby Street (1975).
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San Ramon Library Chronology:
County Librarian, Clarence Walters, outlines need for expanded library service in the San Ramon Valley in a memorandum to County Administrator, J. P. McBrien (November 1973).
Pacific Rim Development Co. announces that...
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"Pennants from El Sobrante Elementary School, Marie Murphy Elementary School, and De Anza High School. Donated by Kenyon Chan, who lived in El Sobrante and attended all of these schools in the 1950s and early 1960s. Kenyon is the son of Martha...
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"Foster's Freeze Menu, 3850 San Pablo Dam Road, El Sobrante. This was the 2nd Foster's Freeze to operate in the town. Undated but probably from around 1970. Business now gone but building still exists" -- Provided by the El Sobrante Historical...
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Hunting party in El Sobrante, late 1870s. Man on the right is Patricio Castro, son of Victor Castro and grandson of don Francisco Castro, grantee of the Rancho San Pablo. Patricio established a beef ranch on what is now Castro Ranch Road which...
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Alice Campbell, standing across the channel from Richmond Kaiser Shipyard No. 1, c. 1943. Alice was a “Rosie,” though she worked in an office in the shipyards. The Campbell family moved to El Sobrante in 1934 and built a home which still stands,...
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First and second place winners of the annual soapbox derby, staged along Valley View Road from Marie Murphy School, October 19, 1957. The winner, Mike Thomas, is at the left, accompanied by Kathy Gannon. The second place contestant is Kenyon...
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Boys hunting squirrels on land owned or leased by the Skow family, who ran a dairy operation along Clark Road from the early 1920s until 1955. The dairy was known as the Richmond Farm Creamery, as most of the customers lived in Richmond. The...