CoL 49 p. 14

[David Payne]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 (08:07:27 -0700), Bekah (Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net) wrote:

> http://www.dalycityhistory.org/overview.htm
> scroll down for a small but good aerial of that atrocity called
> Westlake.

Great link; thanks for sharing! Several bits there that tie into conversations here, like:

"Many of the original houses were dragged out from mass refugee camps on public lands in San Francisco. A drayer named H.H. Smith bought a number of 14' x 20' temporary houses, dragged them out and set them on inexpensive lots on many locations across the county line."

c.f. "Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky" (Weed's tune)

and

> On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:>>> Did anyone besides me think the use of "Little Boxes" as introductory music>> for the early seasons of "Weeds" was highly misplaced? Or it could have>> been ironic. Since the houses in the upscale community in which the story>> takes place seemed to all be upscale multimillion dollar mansions.

Although the "original houses" in the linked article refers to 1907 and "Little Boxes" was written in 1962 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes)

Also, "Regional shopping centers link St. Francis Height and Serramonte subdivisions." (Daly link)

c.f., "San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of conceptscensus tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway." (CoL49)

And, "Among new businesses in the adjacent Colma area towards the turn of the century were cemeteries, recently banned from San Francisco" (Daly link)

c.f., "'I picked the dandelions in a cemetery, two years ago. Now the cemetery is gone. They took it out for the East San Narciso Freeway.'" (CoL49)

And, "Among those working farms in the mid-peninsula was a young man named John Daly ... the youngster found work on a dairy farm on arrival in what became San Mateo County. He learned the dairy business well and married the boss's daughter. By 1868 he had gained enough knowledge and money to purchase some 250 acres at the "top-of-the-hill" ... Daly became a prominent businessman and leader among the burgeoning population of the area ... Daly moved into San Francisco in 1885, seeking better schooling for his children, but maintained his business at the "top-of-the-hill." He helped establish a bank in the new community, donated funds for the first library, and was a political leader if not a resident ... Daly began to realize that his lands were far more useful for living on than grazing cattle. He subdivided his property in 1907, and streets were quickly laid out."

c.f., "...it had been Pierce's domicile, and headquarters: the place he'd begun his land speculating..." etc. (CoL49)

And don't forget _Dally_ Rideout in AtD ...

BTW, how do you pronouce Daly?

Finally, not related to anything we've said here, but quite interesting and Pynchonesque, or maybe I'm just projecting b/c I'd expected Pynchon's next work to be set in the Trail of Tears/Civil War:

"A moment of fame occurred when a duel between two prominent California political leaders was fought not too far from the county line. David Broderick, U.S. senator from California, and David Terry, former chief justice of the State of California, engaged in a period of insults over the role of California as a free or slave state. Their arguments set up two camps in San Francisco, and the duel was considered at the time to be the 'first shot to the Civil War.'

"Broderick was mortally wounded in a little dale only a mile from Thornton's original claim, and adverse public reaction to his death kept California on the free side. This was in 1859, just prior to the Civil War."
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