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PinoleHistorical
SocietyNewsbriefs
P.O. Box 285, Pinole, CA 94564www.PinoleHistoricalSociety.org [email protected]
Fall 2011
VETERANS HONORED AT FOURTH ANNUAL CEREMONY
VETERANS DAY TELECAST MADE POSSIBLE BY SPONSORSecause of generous $250 sponsorshipsfrom Crocketts Premier Auto Body, Wilson & Kratzer Mortuaries, RollingHills Memorial Park, Pinole Rotary,
Mechanics Bank, Tina’s Place, Pinole Chamberof Commerce, and Neto’s Pizza, Pinole
Community TV will televise the November 11 Veterans Day Memorial and Flag Retirement Ceremony. PCTV needed $2,000 in sponsorshipsto cover the cost of the broadcast.
The Pinole Historical Society is very grateful forthese sponsors' support of this important event.
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eteranspast andpresent willbe honored
for their service atthe Fourth AnnualVeterans Day Memo-rial and Flag Retire-ment Ceremony Friday, Nov. 11, at11 a.m. in Fernan-dez Park.
The Pinole Histor-ical Society pro-duces the event.
Boy Scout Troop86, West ContraCosta Girl Scouts,Veterans of ForeignWars Post 2798, St.Joseph School, thePinole Valley High
School MarchingBand, Pinole youthcommissioners, andMayor Roy Swearin-gen will participate.
If you would liketo donate a wornflag for retirementby the Boy Scouts,bring your flag tothe park on Novem-ber 11. Or, mailyour flag to thePinole HistoricalSociety, P.O. Box285, Pinole, CA94564. There is nofee to retire a flag.Please includepostage on all flagsmailed. More pho-tos on page 5.
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Many area veterans attend the event every year.
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It’s also posted on the PHS website.FOR ADVERTISERS: 3,000 printed copies of
PHS Newsbriefs are distributed every quarter, generating readership among thousands of Pinoleand West County residents. Hundreds more receivethe newsletter directly from the PHS via its databaseand website. If you’re interested in advertising,please contact Jeff Rubin at [email protected] or call him at (510) 724-9507.
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November 17: Quarterly membership meeting,Alex Clark Room, Pinole Public Safety Facility, 880Tennent Avenue, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Program: We’ll beshowing the PBS movie “The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord and Conflict.”
February 16, 2012: Quarterly membership meeting: Program TBA.
Pinole Library history exhibits. Two exhibits at thelibrary, 2935 Pinole Valley Road. Library hours are: Monday (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.), Wednesday (2 to 8 p.m.),Friday and Saturday (12 to 5 p.m.).
PHS booth at Pinole Farmers’ Market. Every otherSaturday through December, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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President’s Message
Marcia Kalapus
Marcia Kalapus, President, Pinole Historical Society
fter the CivilWar, there weremany changes inthe everyday
lives of men and women,as well as family dynam-ics during Reconstruction(1865-1877).
One of the majorchanges ones was thedesire of women to voteand make policy deci-sions on national, state,and local levels. Womenin the Wyoming Territoryin 1864 were alreadybutting heads with theirterritorial governmentabout voting rights.
In 1877, SenatorAaron Sargent of Califor-nia strongly believed thatwomen should havemore power and support-ed their suffrage move-ment.
1920, Tennesseebecame the 36th state toratify the 19th Amend-ment, and women gotthe right to vote.
Even back then, Cali-fornia was a U.S. leader.In October 1911, Califor-nia passed Proposition 4,
ACOMMEMORATING THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
which gave women theright to vote in the state.
Women in those dayswere just beginning toemerge from a pioneer toa more urban lifestyle, asmany were moving intocities or small townsfrom farms and ranches.
Modern women beganto write books, maga-zines, and how-to booksabout current fashions,cleaning products, canning recipes, house-keeping, entertaining forsocial gatherings, teas,book clubs, poetry read-ing teas, protocols foreating and manners,guidelines for bettershopping, newer patternsfor sewing, hand craftsand quilting, etc.
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He befriended SusanB. Anthony and encour-aged her to draft lan-guage for a constitutionalamendment that wouldgive all women in theUnited States the right tovote. Anthony joined withElizabeth Cady Stantonto accomplish that goal.
Sen. Sargent triedmany times over 41 yearsto get Congress to agreeto ratify the amendment.In 1919, it passed. It wasthen submitted to eachstate for ratification.
In 1920, PresidentWoodrow Wilson statedthat World War I was awar of democracy, andthe women jumped allover him because theyfelt it was not so, as theystill didn’t have votingrights. On August 18,
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FARIA PLAQUE DEDICATEDaria family members, City officials, and friendsgathered on October 8 to dedicate a plaquecommemorating the former site of the Fariahouse, one of the City's most historic homes.
The plaque is affixed to a large rock on the south-east corner of Pinole Valley Road and Henry Avenue.The home, and Faria ranch, was on this property from 1880 to 2005, when it was moved to its current location at 2100 San Pablo Avenue. The Kaiser Permanente Medical Office Building is now located on the former Faria property.
Three generations of Farias lived in this home,including sisters Margaret (Faria) Prather, Deanna(Faria) Brownlee, and Dolores (Faria) Lucas.
They are the grandchildren of Joseph Dutra Fariaand Maria Nunes Faria, and daughters of William (Bill)and Margaret Faria. Margaret, Deanna, and Dolores,along with many members of their family, attendedthe ceremony.
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We have postcards, greeting cards, and refrig-erator magnets—featuring photos from our book,Images of America: Pinole. You can order them atwww.PinoleHistoricalSociety.org.
To order on-line, print the order form and mailit with your check to the Pinole Historical Society,P.O. Box 285, Pinole, CA 94564.
All of the photos in our book—and others inour collection—are available for purchase in anysize you want.
All of these items make thoughtful holiday gifts.For more information, contact the PHS at (510)724-9507 or at [email protected].
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George and Christie Vincent remembered Pinoleveterans who lost their lives while serving.
Members of Pinole Boy Scout Troop 86 perform thesolemn flag-retirement ceremony.
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PHS SEEKING FAMILY FILMS FOR HISTORICAL ARCHIVEot film?
The Pinole Historical Society is embark-ing on a major project to archive the city’shistory — family by family and event by
event. Our objective is to establish a permanent, digitized collection of Pinole’s history.
Do you have film of past Holy Ghost parades,Pinole Valley High School Homecoming parades,Memorial Day or July 4 parades?
How about important athletic events, such as ahigh-school football, basketball, baseball, softball, orvolleyball game?
Perhaps you have film ofan important event that tookplace in Fernandez Park, or aribbon cutting or an eventthat has a place in Pinole’shistory—such as the 1958flood?
We’re looking for anyvideo or film you have—VHS,
Beta, camcorder, DV tape, 8mm, Super 8mm,16mm, 35mm, motion picture.
Nearly everyone has taken home movies. Thatmakes everyone who has taken film a historian.
We want to collect, digitize, catalog, and preserveold movies on DVD (and whatever formats are tocome) to exhibit, educate, and entertain.
The PHS will share these videos on a film archivethat we will establish, similar to the The PioneersFilm Archive on YouTube created by the CaliforniaPioneers of Santa Clara (www.youtube.com/sccpioneers).
Film connects with thepast in a unique way. It’simmersive, educational, andentertaining for young peo-ple. It’s a way to get youngpeople interested in history.
Got film? Please contactus at [email protected]
The Pinole Historical Society is grateful for donations of
artifacts, photos, newspapers, memorabilia—anything of historical significance. Please contact us at
[email protected] call (510) 724-9507.
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COMMEMORATING THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENTContinued from page 3
With advent of the railroad and postal service,women were able to receive more mail-order cata-logs, and merchandise than they ever had before.Harpers magazine became staple for the new house-wife. The Sears and Roebuck catalog provided allthe appliances and small items necessary to makecleaning easier. I learned how to sew on a Sears andRoebuck Singer treadle sewing machine in the1940s and 1950s that belonged to my grandmotherfor about 50 years. Four generations learned how tosew with it.
One of the books that I treasure most is a booktitled Encyclopedia of Mother’s Advice, by a thou-sand American mothers. It was published in 1905 byHenry Neil Encyclopedia Co., of Chicago. This booktells a woman how to shop for all cuts of meat, fish,pork, poultry, eggs, and game and how to carvethese items and prepare them for cooking; how tomake soup stock; how to select, store, prepare andserve vegetables; how to make, bake, and serve
pastries; andexplains how to can,preserve, and picklefoods of all kinds. I would have lovedthis book when I wasfirst married.
One of the chap-ters is on “Cosme-tiques.” This chaptergives women home-made recipes tomake potions forcleansing their skin;solutions for clear,tanned skin; and howto make hair curlinggel remove wrinkles,make pearl water for moisture, andshampoos, etc.
It covers soaps, stain removals, insect repellents,and cleaning solutions for jewelry, ink spots, silver-ware, and shiny glassware (ammonia solution)—andhow to clean furniture and floors.
Many of the home-remedy recipes recommendedin the book were made and used by my grandmoth-er on my cousins and myself. I laugh when I readthem, because some of them actually worked.
She dipped snuff (it was supposed to be a secret)but whenever bees, wasps or ants bit us, she wouldput a smear of her snuff on the stinging area, and inno time it would stop. It was the nicotine in thesnuff that made the pain go away. I hated thosebrown spots!
Women were able to make potions, salves,lotions, syrups, liquids, and cures for toothaches,bad breath, and quinine cures for drunkenness.
The best of all instructions was how to be beauti-ful and attractive to your husband. Well, ladies, itdefinitely wasn’t sunbathing. Alabaster pale skin wasin. One was to wear gloves, a hat at all times, andtake an umbrella when going out in the daytime.
I have freckles and my grandmother tried formany years to remove them by making me putpotions on my face, arms, and hands at bedtime.
For those of you who are avid quilters, I encour-age you to look for books written by the KansasCity Star; the newspaper published weekly articlesfrom the 1890s to around the 1970s on how tomake quilts. Many of those patterns are replicas ofthe original ones published in the early years. Mygrandmother used those patterns to make all of ussome of the most beautiful hand-made pieces.
It saddens me that many of the old arts and craftsof handwork are not being taught anymore to ouryoung women. Some can’t even sew on a button ormend a seam.
I’m hopeful someday there will be renewed inter-est in making homemade items. I am glad I learned,and I plan to teach my granddaughter how to domany of those special projects required of all youngladies growing up.
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PINOLE’S RURAL ROOTS: THE EARLIEST RANCHES AND FARMS
Back in the day By George R. Vincent
First of two parts
inole began as an agricultural community.The geography ofrolling hills andfertile valley soil
made an ideal combina-tion for livestock and cropraising. Before there was aPinole Township, andeven after incorporationin 1903, Pinole’s charac-ter and economy werelargely shaped by theinfluences of surroundingranches and farms.
The namesake founderof Pinole, Don YgnacioMartinez, owned the earli-est and largest ranch hold-ing. Martinez settled hereon his 18,000-acre El Rancho Pinole in the 1820sand 1830s.
Don Ygnacio and his wife, Dona Martina, raisedtheir family of eleven children in an adobe homeabout three miles into Pinole Valley from the bay.
Here, he ran thousands of cattle and competed withgrizzly bear coming down to feast on them duringroundup time in the place later to be named Rodeo.
The hides and tallow (fat)were sold to Yankee trad-ing ships at today’s PointPinole for needed sup-plies. The family later soldcattle in 1849 to hungryGold Rush miners.
In the 1850s to 1880s,Don Ygnacio’s Englishson-in-law, Doctor SamuelJ. Tennent, operated alarge cattle ranch, farm,and dairy just south ofthe old downtown whereCollins School is today.His fruit orchards extend-ed into what was tobecome the downtown,
giving Pinole the later street names of Prune, Peach,Plum, and Pear.
Tennent and his wife, Doña Rafaela Martinez Tennent, raised their ten children in Pinole’s firstwooden farmhouse. The ranch was famous for its
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The Mohring Ranch as it looks today.
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prized racing horses, and the Tennent girls, Kate andAnna, were exceptional riders.
Growing winter wheat, barley, and hay, as well asproducing butter and cheese, supported the econo-my of the 2,500-acre ranch. For instance, in 1870the ranch produced 150 tons of hay, 9,000 bushelsof wheat, and 8,000 pounds of cheese. When Ten-nent’s cowboys ran their herds north to the railroaddepot to be shipped to market, they would often collapse the bridge over Pinole Creek by the ranch.
The last working ranch in Pinole Valley is 100years old this year. In 1870, Irish immigrants Michaeland Penelope Scanlan bought for $7,000 more than335 acres adjacent to Pinole Creek and El Sobrantefrom land baron John Tormey. Here, just outside thecurrent city limits, they raised ten children.
Their son, Henry Scanlan, married local EmmaClancy and worked the ranch and raised six children.Their daughter, Emily, in 1909 at age eleven, wouldeach day drive the family horse and wagon to theold school in downtown Pinole, five miles away. (Editor’s note: Emily Scanlan was the mother ofthe author of this article.) In 1910, the ranch waslost to unpaid taxes.
In 1911, the ranch was sold to German immigrantWilliam Mohring, who ran a dairy there. His son,Henry, and grandson, Leonard, worked the ranchuntil Leonard’s passing in March 2010.
Henry Mohring recalled the heyday of ranching in Pinole. He remembered how the bars and barber-shops used to stay open on Wednesday and Satur-day nights—sometimes until 2 a.m. to accommodate
the many ranch hands coming into town. In thosedays you got a haircut for thirty-five cents and ashave for fifteen cents and were considered a cheap-skate if you didn’t get both. Henry’s son, Leonard, asa young boy would ride his bicycle each day to andfrom the old school in Pinole, five miles each way.
Today, the old ranch still has much of its historicpersonality and is proudly maintained by Leonardand Vivian Mohring’s five children—Mike, Jim,Danny, Janine, and Glenn. You can still see the cattle and horses and old barns and silo as you exitthe city limits going toward where the “Y” branchesoff toward Martinez and El Sobrante.
The Mohrings have always been a family withranching in their blood and a kindness for animals.Vivian had a tribe of homeless cats she fed and onewould always find in the family’s spacious kitchensick and baby animals being cared for.
Another of the early ranches was the Kate Cousinsranch, east of old town Pinole. Kate Tennent Cousinswas the oldest child of Rafaela and Samuel Tennent’s ten children and a fine horseback rider.The nine-acre ranch by the bay and near the SantaFe Railroad is today part of Hercules.
Part of the ranch included the Tennent racetrackby the bay. In the 1880s, she sold the property toPinole newcomers Chris and Christina Ellerhorst. The farm was then run as a dairy, where nearbyPinoleans could fill their milk cans for fifteen ortwenty-five cents. Next issue: Part Two: Ranches and farms of the
late 19th and 20th centuries.
PINOLE’S RURAL ROOTS: THE EARLIEST RANCHES AND FARMS
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There are more than1,500 photos fromteams throughout theBay Area, including 10from Pinole, nine ofwhich were contributedby the Pinole HistoricalSociety.
They date as far backas a Pinole team from 1890, to the Pinole Merchantsthat played at Fernandez Park in the 1940s and1950s. They include the 1940 Three Brothers team,
the 1911 Ruff’sFederals, and the1913 Shenan-doah team.
The center ofbaseball activity
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The website featuresphotos from 1850through 2009, includingsemi-pro and AmericanLegion amateur teams.Visitors may search by
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PHS interviews on city of Pinole website
Miss one of our programs on Pinole Communi-ty TV?
Not a problem. The city’s website now has adedicated section devoted to PINOLE HISTORY onits “Videos Online” page.
You can view the numerous PHS programs right
on your computer. Go to www.ci.pinole.ca.us/about/videos.html and scroll down to PINOLEHISTORY. You’ll find our interviews, Veterans Dayprograms, George Vincent’s Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Pinole, and the very fine PCTV-produced, 12-part series based on the Historic Walking Tour brochure. It’s great TV!
Check the Pinole Historical Society website for information on PHS
activities and events — and, of course, the history of the
sweetest city in the East Bay.www.PinoleHistoricalSociety.org
100 years ago — 1911ne hundred years ago, RonaldReagan was born in Tampico,Illinois. Other prominent Ameri-cans born in 1911 include
Lucille Ball, Hank Greenberg, SpikeJones, and Tennessee Williams.• Crisco is introduced: William Proc-
ter, a candle maker, and James Gamble,a soap maker, became partners after theymarried sisters in 1837. By the late 19thcentury their product line grew to includeFamily Lard and an inexpensive floatingsoap named Ivory. In 1911, as an afford-able alternative to animal fats and butter,Procter & Gamble launched Crisco, the
first solidified shortening product madefrom vegetable oil. IT was named byshortening the words “crystallized cotton-seed oil.” Crisco was created throughhydrogenation—a new process that keptshortening in solid form no matter howhot the day.• The first movie studio opened in
Hollywood: Brothers David and WilliamHorsley founded the Nestor Motion Picture Company, first in Bayonne, NewJersey and soon after in Hollywood. By1911 they were producing three shortmovies a week— a comedy (Mutt andJeff), a drama, and a western.
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It happened back then1906 marriage rushed amid potentially fatal attractionEditor’s note: This article isfrom the California DigitalNewspaper Collection, Centerfor Bibliographic Studies andResearch, University of Cali-fornia, Riverside http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc.
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eorge F. Wilson,an ex-employeeof the CaliforniaPowder Works,
and Miss MargueriteSmith of Pinole werewedded at midnight ofDecember 4, that theymight evade a persistentsuitor, of the youngwoman who had threat-ened to take his life ifthe girl married otherthan him.
Having fled to Oaklandto escape relatives whowould have endeavoredto induce his intendedbride to wed a formersuitor, George F. Wilson,formerly employed by theCalifornia Powder Works,and Miss MargueriteSmith, whose home is inPinole, were married bythe Rev. Edgar F. Gee,rector of St. John's Epis-copal Church of Oakland.
The midnight marriagemarked the close of aromance. After the cere-mony, Mrs. Wilsondeclared that if a badbeginning makes a goodending they might cer-tainly expect to spendtheir lives in happiness,the path of true love tothe altar having run any-thing but smooth.
The engagement of thecouple was announced inPinole several monthsago and their weddingday was fixed for October3, but on the day beforethe ceremony was tohave been performed aformer suitor of the brideto-be made the startlingdeclaration, according toMrs. Wilson, that he didnot care to live if shebecame the wife ofanother.
Relatives of the youngwoman then endeavoredto persuade her to breakher engagement to Wil-son, and at last she con-sented to a postpone-ment of the wedding.
Becoming weary of thepostponement, however,Wilson and Miss Smithyesterday, determined to wait no longer, and
hastily packing herbelongings, the latterslipping from the homeof her mother and joiningher fiance at the depot,the couple came to thiscity and immediatelysought a marriagelicense. After a long
search they found adeputy county clerk andsecured the coveted doc-ument, and seeking thechapel of St. John'sChurch, were married.
Miss Smith was former-ly engaged to JamesSilva of Pinole.
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The Pinole Historical Society promotes awarenessand appreciation of history through preservationand education, and chronicles the city’s heritage
for current and future generations.
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PHS NOVEMBER 17 MEETING TO FEATURE MOVIE
ON THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FLAGt will be “movie night” at our next Pinole Historical Society quarterly meeting, as we will be showing the PBS documentary “The
American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord and Conflict.”
With rare archivalfootage, beautifulimages of the historicflags, and stirringmusic composed forthe film, this extraor-dinary program com-bines all these ele-ments with reenact-ments, and interviewswith eminent histori-ans and flag expertsabout the history ofthe American experi-ence and the flag.This special programis the definitive televi-
sion documentary about the untold history of theAmerican flag.
The passions of politics and patriotism, in timesof peace and war, are strikingly expressed in thesebanners.
Please join us on November 17 at 6:30 p.m. inthe Alex Clark Room of the Pinole Public Safety Facility, 880 Tennent Avenue.
Come on down—we’ll be serving popcorn!
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he Pinole HistoricalSociety has a limitednumber of Arcadia Publishing books about
our surrounding communitiesof Hercules, Richmond, Crock-ett, Rodeo, Martinez, and PortCosta.
You may purchase one ormore of these books from us at the Pinole Farmers’ Market—we’ll be there everyother Saturday through the endof December.
The Hercules and Richmondbooks retail for $21.99, plustax. The other books are$19.99, plus tax.
The prices, including 8.75%sales tax, are:Hercules: $23.92Richmond: $23.92Crockett: $21.74Rodeo: $21.74Martinez: $21.74Port Costa: $21.74
Or, you may order one ormore by mail and we’ll shipthem to you.
The prices, including 8.75%sales tax and postage are:Hercules: $27.33Richmond: $27.33Crockett: $25.15Rodeo: $25.15Martinez: $25.15Port Costa: $25.15
Send your order to PinoleHistorical Society, P.O. Box285, Pinole, CA 94564.
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SocietyBoard of Directors
Marcia Kalapus, President; Jeff Rubin, Vice President; Sheila Grist, Treasurer; Jo Ann Gannotti,Secretary; Steve Darrow, Dr. Joe Mariotti; Vicki Martinez; Shirley RamosDirectors Emeritus
Jack Meehan, George VincentNewsletter Editor
Jeff Rubin
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PinoleHistoricalSociety2012 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION,AND SEND CASH OR YOUR CHECK, TO PINOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
P.O. BOX 285, PINOLE, CA 94564
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Date paid: ________________________
MEMBERSHIPS ARE FOR THE 2012 CALENDAR YEAR (EXCEPT LIFETIME MEMBERSHIPS)
(PINOLE RESIDENCY NOT REQUIRED FOR MEMBERSHIP)
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