Download or read book Growing Up in Fairfield California written by Tony Wade and published by History Press. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Fairfield in the decades after World War II was an unparalleled experience. From cruising down Texas Street on weekends to catching a carnival in the Wonder World parking lot, fond memories of long-lost times haven't been forgotten. People flocked to vintage eateries like Joe's Buffet and Smorga Bob's and played on the rocket ship slide ...
Download or read book Growing Up in Fairfield California written by Tony Wade and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Fairfield in the decades after World War II was an unparalleled experience. From cruising down Texas Street on weekends to catching a carnival in the Wonder World parking lot, fond memories of long-lost times haven't been forgotten. People flocked to vintage eateries like Joe's Buffet and Smorga Bob's and played on the rocket ship slide at Allan Witt Park. Roller rinks like the M&M Skateway hosted not only skaters but also dances featuring Fats Domino and Roy Orbison. Commuters hopped aboard the FART bus to save on gas, and frequenting Dave's Giant Hamburgers was a rite of passage. Longtime Daily Republic columnist and accidental historian Tony Wade takes a deep dive into the Fairfield of yesteryear.
Download or read book Lost Restaurants of Fairfield California written by Tony Wade and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the memories, meals, and the men and women behind Fairfield's' beloved former dining spots. Since the city's incorporation in 1903, Fairfield's restaurants have reflected the simple tastes of suburban life, serving up good food and great times at places like the Firehouse Deli-Café, the Hi-Fi Drive-In and beyond. Longtime residents knew the best Mexican food north of Tijuana could be found at Dan & Ruth's Café, and Voici, where the movers and shakers met, claimed the crown as swankiest spot in town. Smorga Bob's, the buffet-style family restaurant where locals could let their hair down and get their grub on, is missed to this day. Join longtime Daily Republic columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade on a delicious tour of bygone eateries.
Download or read book Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum written by Shana Nichols and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing professional perspectives alongside personal experiences and suggestions from mothers, daughters and educators, this is a comprehensive text for parents, teachers and professionals working with families and their daughters with ASDs.
Download or read book Armijo High School written by Tony Wade and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a century of history, pride and tradition. Armijo High School opened its doors for the first time in 1891. What began in the upstairs classrooms of Crystal Elementary School in Suisun City grew to the sprawling campus on Washington Street in order to serve the rising population of Fairfield, California. Armijo alumni have made indelible marks in numerous fields, including medicine, law, civil and military service, athletics, and the arts. Notable graduates include Noriyuki "Pat" Morita who earned an Academy Award nomination for playing Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid movies, New York Giants Super Bowl champion George Martin and Johnny Colla, multi-platinum recording artist with Huey Lewis and the News. Join Tony Wade as he delves into the generations of students, parents and faculty that embody Armijo pride.
Download or read book Reflections written by Carole L Barber and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carole looks back at how God was working in her life from the beginning. This reflection reveals that He was in every circumstance preparing her for what lay ahead. He drew her close, set her apart, moved her out of her comfort zone and showed His wonderful love in the lives of her husband, her sons, and in the people He put in her path. God equipped Carole with a delightful sense of humor that has seen her through many embarrassing moments and many trying circumstances. It shines through in her book as evidence of God's grace. The stories about their two sons, now in their late forties, will absolutely delight you with their childlike faith.
Download or read book Fairfield written by Sabine Goerke-Shrode and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a fast-growing city of over 100,000, Fairfield was once the home of the Patwin Suisuni Indians, whose famous Chief Solano became one of the few native landowners in California in the 1830s. Halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento on the route to the gold fields, the town was founded by clipper ship captain Robert Waterman. A shrewd trader, Waterman offered the new Solano County government free land and cash to relocate to his new city, making it the county seat. Soon the railroad, and later the state highway, chose a route through Fairfield, creating an urban center for the beautiful agricultural valleys that surround it.
Download or read book In Struggle Against Jim Crow written by Merline Pitre and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most accounts of the civil rights movement focus on male leaders and the organizations they led, leaving a dearth of information about the countless Black women who were the backbone of the struggle in local communities across the country. ... Lulu B. White was one of those women in the civil rights movement in Texas. Executive secretary of the Houston branch of the NAACP and state director of branches, White was a significant force in the struggle against Jim Crow during the 1940s and 1950s. She was at the helm of the Houston chapter when the Supreme Court struck down the white primary in Smith v. Allbright, and she led the fight to get more blacks elected to public office, to gain economic parity for African Americans, and to integrate the University of Texas"--
Download or read book Huihui written by Jeffrey Carroll and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking anthology is the first to navigate the interconnections between the rhetorics and aesthetics of the Pacific. Like the bright and multifaceted constellation for which it is named, Huihui: Rhetorics and Aesthetics in the Pacific showcases a variety of genres and cross-genre forms—critical essays, poetry, short fiction, speeches, photography, and personal reflections—that explore a wide range of subjects, from Disney’s Aulani Resort to the Bishop Museum, from tiki souvenirs to the Dusky Maiden stereotype, from military recruitment to colonial silencing, from healing lands to healing words and music, from decolonization to sovereignty. These works go beyond conceiving of Pacific rhetorics and aesthetics as being always and only in response to a colonizing West and/or East. Instead, the authors emphasize the importance of situating their work within indigenous intellectual, political, and cultural traditions and innovations of the Pacific. Taken together, this anthology threads ancestral and contemporary discursive strategies, questions colonial and oppressive representations, and seeks to articulate an empowering decolonized future for all of Oceania. Representing several island and continental nations, the contributing authors include Albert Wendt, Haunani-Kay Trask, Mililani Trask, Chantal Spitz, Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, Flora Devatine, Kalena Silva, Steven Winduo, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Selina Tusitala Marsh, ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui, Craig Santos Perez, Gregory Clark, Chelle Pahinui, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Michael Puleloa, Lisa King, and Steven Gin. Collectively, their words guide us over ocean routes like the great wa‘a, va‘a, waka, proa, and sakman once navigated by the ancestors of Oceania, now navigated again by their descendants.
Download or read book The Invention Man written by Rosebudd Bitterdose and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention Man, is a science fiction thriller. It's about a drug company's misuse of a young inner city researcher. Bio Tech hired Rodney Danval to do research on a drug that had already been proven to be too dangerous for proper research. The drug had great potential, but could not be used in it's present form. It's base drug component if taken repeatedly would cause the user to go into a state of dementia, and crimes would follow. This story tells about the adverse effects the research and drug had on Rodney, and the lengths big business will go to make another dollar. It chronicles all of the details, some graphicly.
Download or read book The Poetic Imperative written by Johanna Skibsrud and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to expand our sense of poetry's reach and potential impact. It is an effort at recouping the poetic imperative buried within the first taxonomic description of human being: "nosce te ipsum," or "know yourself." Johanna Skibsrud explores both poetry and human being not as fixed categories but as active processes of self-reflection and considers the way that human being is constantly activated within and through language and thinking. By examining a range of modern and contemporary poets including Wallace Stevens, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Anne Carson, all with an interest in playfully disrupting sense and logic and eliciting unexpected connections, The Poetic Imperative highlights the relationship between the practice of writing and reading and a broad tradition of speculative thought. It also seeks to demonstrate that the imperative "know yourself" functions not only as a command to speak and listen, but also as a call to action and feeling. The book argues that poetic modes of knowing - though central to poetry understood as a genre - are also at the root of any conscious effort to move beyond the subjective limits of language and selfhood in the hopes of touching upon the unknown. Engaging and erudite, The Poetic Imperative is an invitation to direct our attention simultaneously to the finite and embodied limits of selfhood, as well as to what those limits touch: the infinite, the Other, and truth itself.
Download or read book Weak and Wounded Sick and Sore written by Margo Martin Rhodes and published by TouchPoint Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgiveness and healing I have received is available to all who seek it regardless of the number of your transgressions or the severity of them. “Though I feared sharing what might make me an outcast among family, friends, and colleagues, I am finally bringing my baby, whose life I took, into the open, and I will share her with the world. I’m prepared for whatever disappointment or human judgment comes upon me. This captive has been set free, and she’s wearing a garment of praise!” It took Margo Martin Rhodes more than thirty years to acknowledge, even to herself, much less to anyone else, that she had taken the life of her own offspring, a seed which God had entrusted to her body and care. The delayed understanding ultimately led her to process why so many other parts of her life had been managed in ungodly and unproductive ways—crises of her spirit and soul were inevitable. She shares, in Weak and Wounded, Sick and Sore: Stories of Pity, Love, and Power, evidence of “hope for binding the brokenhearted, comfort for all who mourn, provision for those who grieve in Zion, freedom from darkness for the captives, the oil of joy for anointing, a garment of praise instead of despair, and the year of the Lord’s favor.” Margo knows firsthand that the restoration proclaimed by Isaiah is available to all, and she now feels called to help others plagued by sin and regret to claim these promises: Instead of your shame, you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance... that everlasting joy will be yours. (Isaiah 61:7, NIV)
Download or read book Greetings from Utopia Park written by Claire Hoffman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and ’90s—a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When Claire Hoffman’s alcoholic father abandons his family, his desperate wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven—Iowa—to live in Maharishi’s national headquarters for Heaven on Earth. For Claire’s mother, Transcendental Meditation—the Maharishi’s method of meditation and his approach to living the fullest possible life—was a salvo that promised world peace and enlightenment just as their family fell apart. At first this secluded utopia offers warmth and support, and makes these outsiders feel calm, secure, and connected to the world. At the Maharishi School, Claire learns Maharishi’s philosophy for living and meditates with her class. With the promise of peace and enlightenment constantly on the horizon, every day is infused with magic and meaning. But as Claire and Stacey mature, their adolescent skepticism kicks in, drawing them away from the community and into delinquency and drugs. To save herself, Claire moves to California with her father and breaks from Maharishi completely. After a decade of working in journalism and academia, the challenges of adulthood propel her back to Iowa, where she reexamines her spiritual upbringing and tries to reconnect with the magic of her childhood. Greetings from Utopia Park takes us deep into this complex, unusual world, illuminating its joys and comforts, and its disturbing problems. While there is no utopia on earth, Hoffman reveals, there are noble goals worth striving for: believing in belief, inner peace, and a firm understanding that there is a larger fabric of the universe to which we all belong.
Download or read book WALNECK S CLASSIC CYCLE TRADER JULY 2006 written by Causey Enterprises, LLC and published by Causey Enterprises, LLC. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lady and Her Eagle written by Jack Conrad and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cold war began in the early years after World War Two. Established in 1947, the United States Air Force became a separate arm of the military and the transition from propeller driven aircraft to jets is the focal point of the story. Tommy Chandler and his English wife, Lady Caroline, are involved with these developments. When the Korean war breaks out, Tommy is ordered to take a squadron of the new jet fighter, the F-86 Sabre, to fight in that war. His one hundred mission are fraught with danger and success as he becomes a jet ace. The first of this kind.
Download or read book Stage Four Five Alarm written by Jim Balanesi and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And looking at them Jesus said to them, With men this is impossible, But with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 Who holds you up when adversity comes and shakes you downwhen youre told that youre going to die from your illness, your income has burned to the ground, and the housing market has fallen? Who is going to be there to help you up? Stage Four, Five Alarm is the true story of how Jim Balanesi and his wife, Cindy, overcame stage four lung cancer and a fire that destroyed their successful caf through the love and grace of God. These experiences took them on a journey of discovery, learning what their lives are truly all about. Instead of giving up, which would have been so easy, they followed God and His Word, making them stronger with each step. It was a challenge to move forward, but they struggled to stay on the path because they wanted to win these battles once and for all. God gave them the courage, guidance, strength, and knowledge to continue on together through the hardest of times. Their spirits could have been blown apart by these tragediesif not for their growing relationship with God and His Son, Jesus. Stage Four, Five Alarm shares how their love has kept them together and made them into the strong believers they are today.
Download or read book Growing Up with the Country written by Elliott West and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.
