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<DIV>Holiday Greetings and Some History of California - <BR>I want to wish
everyone here in this group a </DIV>
<DIV>Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukah , or whatever<BR>you celebrate this
time of the year!<BR>May you and your family be blessed in the upcoming New
Year!</DIV>
<DIV>Bette has the pies and cookies cooking - and tomorrow the
feast!</DIV>
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<DIV>OK on to the California History </DIV>
<DIV>I took time this afternoon to sort some of our California
<BR>history books and pamphlets. Of course AAA was in<BR>business at
the early part of the century...<BR> </DIV>
<DIV>I left California when I went in the USAF and ended
up here in Arizona.<BR>But wherever I saw a neat book
on my old homeland I would pick it <BR>up and put it on the self in
the living room....</DIV>
<DIV>There is one on PV weeds and flowers</DIV>
<DIV>But here is a remarkable book - as you can tell by the cover</DIV>
<DIV>where you have someone hired to drive you! This is
motoring<BR>in California in 1915! The author also thanks AAA etc...</DIV>
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<DIV>On Sunset Highways; A Book of Motor Rambles in California </DIV>
<DIV class="a-section a-spacing-mini">by Murphy Thos D. (Thomas Dowl 1866-1928
(Creator) </DIV>
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<DIV class="a-section a-spacing-mini"><SPAN>This pretty much describes
what I hold in my hands here.<BR>The Page Company, Boston, Massachusetts,
U.S.A., 1915. Blue cloth decorative cloth boards with orange, green, gold
on front and spine; Gold gilt lettering on front and spine; 16
illustrations, with tissue overlays, in colour from original paintings by M. De
Neale Morgan, Percy Gray, Clark Hobart; 40 duogravures from photographs, and
attached fold-out map;</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>You can enjoy and Electronic copy at the following links
-</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Great PDF (and other formats) avail. at archive-org copy with color
pix etc bit not the cool cover (PDF)<BR><A
title=https://ia802605.us.archive.org/33/items/onsunsethighway02murpgoog/onsunsethighway02murpgoog.pdf
href="https://ia802605.us.archive.org/33/items/onsunsethighway02murpgoog/onsunsethighway02murpgoog.pdf">https://ia802605.us.archive.org/33/items/onsunsethighway02murpgoog/onsunsethighway02murpgoog.pdf</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Electronic copy from Barnes and Noble (Nook Format)<BR><A
title=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-sunset-highways-thomas-dowler-murphy/1101566190;ean=9781346811727
href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-sunset-highways-thomas-dowler-murphy/1101566190;ean=9781346811727">http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-sunset-highways-thomas-dowler-murphy/1101566190;ean=9781346811727</A></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>