[UA] Famous places in California

[Ryan]

Historically Famous places in CA:

Bay Area division:

General Fremont Tree, Henry Cowell Redwoods, Felton
    An odd twist on the 'washington slept here' theme.
Winchester Mansion (mentioned already)
Fort Point
Spanish customs houses, Monterey
Venitian Apartments, Capitola
    World's first condominiums. :)
A whole passle of missions.
Golden gate park panhadle... Haight/Ashbury
Arroyo Seco Raceway
    Where the Rolling Stones free concert fracas was held

North/Central division:
Site of Capt's Jack's siege up in Modoc St. Park
Sutter's Mill
Bidwell Park in Chico Califirnia
    AKA Sherwod Forest (Errol Flynn 1939 version)
Clearlake, lake county
    A local loch-ness-monster type thing.
Placerville etc.
    More gold-country stuff.
Death Valley

Southern Division:
Catalina Harbor
    Sir Francis Drake slept here.
More missions.
    San Juan Capistrano, especially.
West end of Route 66
Salton Sea
The cafe where the Black Dahlia killings took place
Vasquez Rocks
West end of Jedediah Smith trail


Ysidro wrote:

> Allison Onken wrote:
> 
>>>> Which is a more UA-ish famous spot in California:
>>>> 
>>>> The abandoned tower in the center of Balboa Park,
>>>> Hearst Castle, The Winchester Mystery House,
>>>> Susanville (near the spot where Captain Jack met his
>>>> end) or Culver City.
>>> 
>>> The Winchester Mystery House, because (i) I've heard of it and (ii) it's
>>> featured in a Tim Powers book.
>>> I'd like to hear more about the others, though.
>> 
>> Don't forget the Mystery Spot, which, while it may not actually be very
>> mysterious, has enough weird gravity (Or whatever; I've only heard about it
>> myself.  It's apparently one of those places where water flows uphill.) that
>> you can probably do things with it.
>> 
> 
> 
> Bah.  There's plenty of those places all over the world.  It's just an
> illusion due to slopes and angles of the area.  
> 
> Gimmie a house built by a widow afraid of ghosts over geography any day.
> 
> Greg


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