Re: A thought about CA
Author: Native Californio
Date: 10-13-2012 - 19:32
Ah, Planet Ord (and Fort Hunter Liggett, Fort Irwin and Camp Roberts). 7th ID (not "Light") 77-79. Dad did basic there w/ 6th ID then later at Presidio of San Francisco in the '50s. I got there about time the last unused but intact bulding on Cannery Row burned and they debated quite a while before deciding to redevelope it into the thing that it now is. I missed the Del Monte: would have been handy to visit relations in San Jose (almost all who moved to fled to Nevada) but took the Coast Starlate down quite a bit. Before I ETS'd they cut the Monterey Branch to Seaside.
Like Cannery Row, the Coast Line seem to be sterile and uninteresting now.