Inherent Vice--Billionaires in the 60s?

[Bekah]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:28 PM, rich wrote:
> IV notes the plot revolves around a real estate billionaire--just how
> many billionaires were there in the 60s?
>
> couldn't have been that many.
>
> Forbes notes there were 140 in 1986

John Sobrato,  George Argyros,  John Arrillaga -  real estate  
billionaires in California who were all well on their way in the  1960s.

And of special interest in addition to being tangentially related to  
Vineland (although a bit too far east) :   Red Emmerson - the largest  
private forestland holder in North America - assets include 1.52  
million acres in Northern California, timberland stretching more than  
350 miles from Mount Shasta to Yosemite National Park.

If  Frenesi's grandfather,  Jess Traverse,  came out west for  
logging, then  ...  but Humboldt and Del Norte counties are still too  
far west for Emmerson. to be involved - except in fiction,  of course.

Bekah