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Scary news from Oraville CA
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

That sounds like a recently discovered Magritte painting.


This is not a drill.

My mother's mother's family is from Butte County. One of her uncles helped build the dam.

Bob Juch wrote:My mother's mother's family is from Butte County. One of her uncles helped build the dam.

I am wondering if my Great-Uncle who lived in Marysville at the time had anything to do with the dam. He was a civil engineer who had worked on the Alaska Highway.

Not sure who he worked for out there. A family story was that he bought property across from Disney sometime very early in the development of Disneyland.

In a scene that could be out of a movie-He saw the maps where a highway was going to be built here in Minnesota-Not sure if he had moved back here and was working for the county or not. He bought lake property that adjoined the "Future" highway and subdivided it.

He never married and at the time of his death in the mid 80's-the heirs (including my father) sold the land. My branch wanted to hang onto the land for later-but there were too many fingers in the pie and it got sold.

It would have been worth substantially more 10-15 years down the road-but people wanted their money NOW.

Spock wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:My mother's mother's family is from Butte County. One of her uncles helped build the dam.

I am wondering if my Great-Uncle who lived in Marysville at the time had anything to do with the dam. He was a civil engineer who had worked on the Alaska Highway.

Not sure who he worked for out there. A family story was that he bought property across from Disney sometime very early in the development of Disneyland.

In a scene that could be out of a movie-He saw the maps where a highway was going to be built here in Minnesota-Not sure if he had moved back here and was working for the county or not. He bought lake property that adjoined the "Future" highway and subdivided it.

He never married and at the time of his death in the mid 80's-the heirs (including my father) sold the land. My branch wanted to hang onto the land for later-but there were too many fingers in the pie and it got sold.

It would have been worth substantially more 10-15 years down the road-but people wanted their money NOW.

One of my great-grand aunts, Mamie Yancey, married Maclovio De Arnaz, the son of José De Arnaz who owned Rancho Rincón de los Bueyes which encompassed present day Cheviot Hills, Rancho Park, the northeast extension of Culver City, and a small section of Baldwin Hills with Ballona Creek.

José had thirteen children so when he died in 1895 the rancho of 3127 acres was divided into thirteen parts. Most of the children sold their shares immediately. Imagine how much those sections would be worth today!