Sonora's Uptown Theater

Sonora (Tuolumne County) Fairgrounds

    Have spent slightly over a day at the Sonora Library searching through microfilm of the Sonora Union Democrat and an associated paper, the Tuolumne Independent, for articles, profiles, and ads about or from the Sonora Uptown Theater and the Tuolumne Fireman's Theater.

    A reference librarian directed me to a local history written by a woman who grew up in Jamestown and who has written local histories about both Jamestown and Sonora. Here's what Doris Fletcher-Mills wrote in her Sonora: Then and Now (c1997) about the Uptown Theater.

Uptown Theatre
    Although Sonora was first exposed to motion pictures in 1903, with films for the most part being shown in the Turn Venetian Hall, the first permanent motion picture theatre was established early in 1908 by Emery Girard and W.J. and F.J. Brenner, who formed the New York Amusement Company and rented a store on the west side of Washington Street, later to become Curnow's Appliance Store, where the films were shown on a white bed sheet hanging from the ceiling. In 1908, the New York Amusement Company was acquired by Julius Baer and Harry Cain. In July 1909, the company was sold to the Restano Brothers. Cain was retained as manager.

    In 1917, the Restanos decided to build a new theatre on South Washington Street on the site now occupied by Bank of America. Because the cost exceeded their expectations, the Restanos were forced to lease both the old theatre uptown and their uncompleted new theatre to June Knowles. Knowles formed a partnership with Eric J. Segerstrom and a few months later they sub-leased the theatre to Alfred George (A.G.) Clapp, who managed it until the mid-1920s, when the Restano Brothers again took over and installed Rick's son, Odillo, as manager.

    During Clapp's management, he had maintained a lease on the uptown site, which was then occupied by Cecil Mathews as a top shop. The Restanos let the lease go and Arthur D. Duchow open the Star Theatre (later to become known as the Uptown Theater) on December 1, 1927, in the building which he owned. The first film shown was "The Big Parade," a silent movie.

    "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Great Train Robbery" were two of the most noteworthy films shown in the early days of the theatre.

    In the early days of the movies, a once a week event for most young people, [the most avidly-awaited shorts were] the serials (referred to now as the cliff-hangers). "The Adventures of Peal White," Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops were very popular. The "good guys" could be easily recognized because they wore white hats while the "bad guys" wore black ones.

    In the 1930s, Arthur Duchow played movies from the Star Theatre in various communities such as the old Moose Hall in Groveland. His successor, Norwood S. Tronsilin, continued the practice.

    "The remodeling of the Star Theatre makes it one of the nicest small town theatres in the state," according to an article on Nov. 13, 1936 in The Union Democrat. Not only is it beautiful and modern but moves toward being the safest building in Tuolumne County. The added room and screen size will meet with everyone's approval."

    Vernon S. McDonald, who was hired in 1921 as assistant janitor by Clapp while he was manager of the Sonora Theatre, became friends with the projectionist, Tom Long, who taught him how to operate the [projection] machines. When Long left, Vernon was given the job at a salary of $2.75 per night. As he was too small to set the upper reel on its spindle, he got his older brother, Earl, to assist him and the two ran the projectors unil the theatre was taken over by the Restanos.

    Vernon and Earl were then employed as projectionists by Duchow at the Star Theatre where Vernon supplemented his income by running the linotype machine at Duchow's Tuolumne Independent newspaper plant. Earl became a telegrapher at the Sonora Western Union office.

    Vernon's career as a projectionist covered both the silent movie days and the introduction of disc or record sound, in which the projectionist had to synchronize the sound with the action. He and his brother, Earl, soon learned to master the technique of briefly spinning the record a little faster at the expense of a few garbled words until the sound matched the lip movements whenever it became necessary.

    The disc or record sound system was soon replaced with the sound track on the edge of the film and the problem of synchronization was solved. There was still the problem of an occasional break in the film which then had to be spliced exactly right so that the synchronization was maintained.

[Much of the above courtesy of CHISPA]
    During the "Great Depression,"dishes and other enticements" were offered at the Uptown Theatre to bring customers in. It was a long, narrow building with an aisle down the center and a balcony where smoking was permitted.

    Coincidentally, the movie, "The Towering Inferno" was being advertised on the theatre marquee at the time of a minor fire in the projection room of the theatre.

    The Uptown Theatre was taken over by the Harvey Amusement Company which employed Robert Patton as manager. The theatre ran unhder this ownership for a number of years until Twin Cinema I and II Theatres open at the Sonora Plaza Shopping Center. Patton was hired as the first manager of the new theatres in late October 1976.

[From Doris Fletcher-Mills' Sonora: Then and Now, c1997, pp. 22-24]
Th 9 Dec Route: Sonora - Tuolumne - Riverside Guard Station Site

Photo Gallery1

Sonora (Tuolumne County) Fairgrounds

This is the first photo I took at the western end of Eight Mile Road and H&H [formerly Helen & Herman's] Marina, now owned by Houseboats.Com. It shows the Venice Island Ferry, a cable ferry, returning to the the island to pick up an auto waiting to be ferried to the Stockton side of the waterway. Note in the left center that the sun had recently set behind Mount Diablo and a few high thin clouds.
[Click once or twice to see bigger images.] Mount Diablo domination of the skyline to the west brought back memories of similar views on housboating trips of years past.

The second shot is from the dock at the back end of the cafe where we often gassed up or landed if there were other boats already docked in front of the cafe. Of course, when newbies were at the controls they sometimes misjudged the closeness of the dock, perhaps spilling a cup of coffee or two in the cafe. I didn't notice a fish-cleaning station to the right when I walked down to the dock from where I parked my rig on the levee.

The third shot is of the picnic area between front of the cafe and the store.

 

 

 

 

 

And the fourth and final shot shows some of the larger houseboats moored at the docks to the left of the store.

 

 

 

 

Woodward Reservoir County Park is located in the rolling hills to the west of Oakdale [Stanislaus] County Road J14/26 Mile Road and is the most senior-friendly RV park/campground I've encountered so far. Seniors get a full overnight hookup for $10. Rates listed by Tom Stienstra in his 2010 West Coast Camping were $15-23 per night.

Just as I/we had driven past the Woodward turn-off without investigating, I have also driven past the turn-off to Knights Ferry many times without driving down to what is called the longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi.

 

 

 

Here's a close-up. Obviously the original boards have been replaced several times since the bridge was originally built. But the reason for covering a bridge was to increase its life by shielding it from the elements. [Don't believe there's a covered bridge at Knights Landing further north in the Sierra foothills, but the two locations are sometimes confused.]

Took this shot of two large birds in the top of a tree near the covered bridge using the zoom so that I could see what color their beaks. The white or yellow confirms that they were buzzards or vultures -- which one invariably sees when driving from Sonora to Oakdale.

When I asked a young fellow at Burger King if there were any RV campgrounds on SR108 other than at Sugar Pine he said that Sonora Fairgrounds had an RV Park. Apparently the Mother Lode Fair Association is trying to derive some additional income from the vacant fairgrounds when it's not fair season. Cost was $20 for a partial hookup (electricity); if I understand correctly, it costs $25 to connect to water, which is at each side. But the additional $5 covers use of the dump station.

The House Which John & Nadine Built

Sutter Creek, CA.

During the three days I spent with cousin Nadine Colberg Mottoros and her husband John Mottoros I was impressed with their rather large house. While the photos I took Sunday after sundown are a bit dark, one can get a somewhat better view by clicking on them twice. [Hope to learn whether Google's Picasa, which is one of the sources blog-newbies must use to post photos to a Blogspot blog, can lighten photos such as those in this post; most graphics programs I've used on a desktop computer have that capability -- but not Microsoft's dinosaur program Paint.]

The house is built on two levels since it sits on a hillside next to a small creek; it has two outside stairs at its north and south ends as well as an inside stairs from the kitchen/dining-family room down to the living room.
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Nadine is an outstanding cook. I particularly liked the salmon she prepared Saturday evening. And the next day John bought four freshly-cooked dungeoness crabs which we cracked, picked, and devoured for lunch Sunday. John does a considerable amount of cooking for the Native Sons of the Golden West, which Nadine calls "the Boys Club." He often enters the local chili-cookoffs, and has had a fair amount of success.

But the real character of the house is enhanced by its contents: "John's Toys," as he calls them. He has numerous nickelodeans, player pianos, and other electro-mechanical devices for which he sells music rolls. And, except for the player pianos, most of the devices have such things as drums, cymbols, tambourines, and pipes meant to simulate string and wind instruments. You might call the nickelodeans a "Band in a Box." They were used in taverns, saloons, etc. to entertain customes -- espcially those who had nickels to deposit in the slots.

One of John's other interesting collections is a set of videodiscs which contain many movie shorts produced for black audiences by Roy Mack. [I believe I've seen Mack's name on some piano sheet music.] The first short we watched was "Born to Tap," starring a young Sammy Davis Jr. and Ethel Waters. Others featured bands led by Eubie Blake and his song-writing partner Noble Sissle. Since I had only seen Eubie after Johnny Carson had him as a guest several times on the "Tonight Show" when Eubie was in his 90s, it was susrprising to see him with a bushy black moustache. But when he took off the chef's cap which was part of theme for the short, it was clear that his baldness did not begin during his old age.

The Creekside Cabin
If you have a chance to stay in Nadine & John's Creekside Cabin, which doubles as a guest house and a short-term rental, you'll not be disappointed. As one who stayed in motels from 4 Oct to 18 Nov, I believe the CC is better than any motel where I stayed -- even including those which were built in the last 3 or 4 years.

Be Prepared!
The Boy Scout motto came to the forefront of my memory during yesterday's drive from Sutter Creek. I had intended to go to the Stockton Library and do some genealogy lookups. But shortly after I found a parking place adjacent to a park (across Oak St from the library) in the Civic Center, two young Latinas who had parked near my rig and walked to the library returned to their car. As they began to back out of the diagonal parking, I knocked on the left window and asked if the library was open. "No," they replied in unison, "it's closed!"

So my lunch in the camper while parked on El Dorado St cost me an extra 50 cnts; parking is reasonable (especially when compared with rates near the State Capitol in Sacramento) at two-bits per hour. (Not sure if there's free public parking near the library.)

One side-benefit of the trip to the Stockton Library was that I passed an Arco gas station which was selling unleaded gas for $3.03, 6 cnts cheaper than the lowest I saw in the drive from Sutter Creek to downtown Stockton. It's at the corner of Harding Way and Center Street. [N.B. El Dorado St, the street on which the Chavez Library is located, is one-way North whereas Center St is one-way South.]

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I-5 was just a short distance down Center Street; I took it north to Eight Mile Road to find the Stockton/Lodi RV Park c5 miles east of I-5. Never found it or any evidence as to where it might have been.

I then drove to the end of Eight Mile Road to the west at the Venice Island Ferry, which is located next to the former Helen & Herman's Marina; my ex-fishing buddy, Gordon Athearn, and I as well as others made numerous houseboating/fishing trips in the 80s & 90s from that marina, which is now owned by Houseboats.Com and is called H&H Marina. Took several photos of the docks, ferry, store, and a few houseboats -- again just after the sun had set behind Mount Diablo. Plan to post them shortly.

Not sure if the last 2-5 miles of Eight Mile Road are any rougher than they were years ago, but the stiff spings in my Ford F-250 made me slow down to slightly under the posted speed of 25 mph. Once back on I-5 I drove south, thinking I'd take SR120 to Manteca. However, I saw a sign on I-5 pointing to French Camp on SR4. While I had seen signs to French Camp for most of my life when my father or I drove to/from Tuolumne County, where my mother was raised, I had never been there. And after arriving on SR120 near Oakdale, I'm not sure I've been through French Camp even now; I suspect I was busy watching the road and didn't notice a sign.

The Woodward Reservoir RV Campground/Park has very reasonable prices for seniors -- only $10 for a full hookup. Couldn't find the self-registration station or forms, but I'll both pay and ask about those when I depart before noon (which is the usual check-out time for most CGs).

Today's Route: Sutter Crk - Pardee Resv - Comanche Resv - Stockton
Later Revision: Stockton - French Camp - Oakdale - Woodward Reservoir
Tuesday's Route: Oakdale - Jamestown - Sonora

Murphy's Law in Action

Sutter Creek, CA.

As I told my cousin, Nadine Colberg Mottoros, who lives here in Sutter Creek with her husband John, the drive from Orland to Yuba City, Auburn, Placerville, and Sutter Creek was interesting and challenging. I ignored the Mapquest directions to use I-80 and US-50 to reach Placerville and got to see a bona fide mountain road, complete with turns marked with signs to "Slow to 15" -- during the afternoon commute home.
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And State Route [SR] 49, know as the "Gold Country Highway or Road, did pass through Colma, the spot where John Marshall discovered traces of gold in a Sutter saw mill race in 1848. Here's more info on the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historical Park.

When I got to Placerville I had to find a free WiFi to request directions from Placerville to Sutter Creek since mine had to be read backwards. It appears that most of the newer Safeway Stores have WiFi. Got a new route to my cousin's place in Sutter Creek and headed south on SR49. When I got to the outskirts of Sutter Creek I thought my problems were over.

Not so! Sutter Creek was jammed with parked cars and people standing on or strolling the sidewalks for their annual Christmas party. And to make matters worse, I wasn't driving a VW Beetle but rather a large Ford F-250 with a good-sized truck camper. And, as John Mottoros pointed out, the streets were designed for wagons -- not autos and larger pickups.

But the biggest problem was narrow streets with cars and trucks parked on both sides, reducing the 2 lanes to just barely 1 lane. In fact, on one narrow back-street a truck equally as large as mine had parked next to a telephone pole or something else and protruded further into the roadway than any other vehicles. I inched past him with my side-view mirror just clearing the top of his. However, my problems were not yet over, for the road ahead said "Dead End."

I finally got to a spot near a drop down to someone's small parking lot ahead and decided to to turn the camper-laden pickup around in a spot just right for turning a VW beetle around. While I did push some dead limbs which had been pruned off of some trees on the uphill side of the road, I was able, with a lot of inching back and forth, to turn around. Made it past the bottleneck formed by the large blue pickup and, after one more drag up and down Main Street where I had hoped to catch a policeman or fireman within earshot, I headed out of town.

Stopped at a convenience store on the northern end of Sutter Creek, but a phone call to Nadine's number got a Disconnected beep and message. Then went to a Day's End Motel and started to use the WiFi hotspot near the Check-In desk when the woman managing the registration desk came downstairs. After she looked in a map without success for Orinda Street and Allen Ranch Road, she found a phone number in the phone book and dialed it for me.

Nadine answered and agreed with John's suggestion that she would drive down and lead me back to their place -- for which I was thankful. [Amen!]
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Today's Lessons: 1)Murphy's Law - if anything can go wrong -- it will. And 2)have a backup such as a correct phone number even if the directions seem correct. (Both my cousin Nadine and the deskwomnan at the Day's Inn stated that Mapquest occasionally makes mistakes; for instance, there is no such street as Orinda in Sutter Creek to the best of their knowledges.)

Here are couple of links which might be of interest: brief Sutter Creek History and, if you have nickelodian piano, my cousin John's piano roll site, Johnny's Music Rolls.

Washed my bod yesterday before hitting the hay. Will wash my laundry tomorrow.
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Not sure when I'll leave for an RV campground near Stockton; it depends in part upon the weather and weather forecast.

RV Parks & Repairs + An Obituary

Old Orchard RV Park, Orland, CA

The couple managing the Sacramento River RV Park at 6596 Riverland Drive have done a good job in renovating an RV park which had some problems when they took over its management. (It's located on a frontage road to I-5 about 5 miles south of Redding.)

Now the park is well-maintained with some of the less-desirable elements having been evicted. There are a considerable number of trees, many of which are natural old-growth trees rather than out-of-place palm trees imported by a landscaping firm, many plots of grass, and most important of all, clean restrooms with showers.

Since I'm a newbie at RV-ing, I especialy want to thank Bob, the husband of the woman who handles the "bean-counting" portion of the park management, for helping me solve my power problems. My 30-amp cable had likely been repaired by a previous owner, but he trimmed the heavy cable casing too far back from the socket. Bob, who had previously worked in marine electronics, quickly removed the floppy socket, cut off the overly-long 3 wires, stipped the heavy cable jacket off, stripped the wires, and reconnected the socket. [Incidentally, when I mentioned that I and my ex-fishing buddy had made house-boats trips from Helen & Herman'a Marina on 8-Mile Rd north of Stockton he said that he and his wife almost took the job of managing that marina.]
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Now the socket doesn't look like it may be the cause of electrical problems such as a short or an open circuit. And when he finished the repair he used what I need to add to my Load List, a VOM (Volt Ohm Meter).
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When we got back to my rig there was still no power inside after connecting it up. Bob made a quick check of circuit breakers and found that they were all off. Once on, I had "shore power."
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If one still lacks power at an RV park after connecting to a sockets in the junction box at a site, there are several things one should double-check.

• Is the circuit breaker in the junction box on?
• Is the socket connected to your camper or RV firmly seated?
• Are the circuit breakers in your control panel on?

If the circuit beakers trip as soon as you turn them on, you have something drawing a great deal of current. Leave the circuit breakers off and seek knowledgeable help.

RV Repairs

One place where you'll find knowledgeable help is at RV Service Centers. Since I had used the one in Santa Cruz to make repairs before hitting the road, I looked up the RV Service Center of Redding, aka Redding RV Center on-line while at the Redding Library.

I told Mark, the manager of the RV Service Center of Redding, that I had no power from my house battery; it had been out since I stopped for lunch at Weot two days previously. And since it only operated for 2.5 hours on one light and the radio the first night I used it in Castroville before the low-voltage alarm on the LP gas detector sounded (meaning the house battery voltage has dropped to <= 8.5 volts), I told him I thought I might need a new house battery.

He had one of his technicians check out my house battery, which is under one of the seats of the dinette; turns out the in-line fuse at one of the battery's terminals was blown.
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While Mark could have easily sold me a new battery, the technician replaced the fuse, checked the battery under load, and told me it didn't act like a battery which was about to fail; he also confirmed that there was sufficient water in each cell.
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Though I can't yet conclude that all RV Service Centers are totally reputable, the two I've used so far in both Santa Cruz and Redding are.
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While the Old Orchard RV Park just to the west of Orland and I-5 at 4490 Country Road HH does not have WiFi, one can use the Orland Library, which is open every day except Sunday, to do some searching, check e-mail, or post one's blog. (The wife of the fellow who checked in me showed me an AT&T router, which should provide those in or near the office WiFi.)
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The rates vary from $15 to $24; I paid the former and I suspect the owner of the large 1991 Class A RV towing a vintage 1971 VW likely paid the latter.
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I discovered this RV Park in the "Sacremento & Gold County" section of Tom Stienstra's West Coast Camping, published in 2010. It covers RV parks as well as US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Corps of Engineers, PG&E, state, county, and city camp sites. Of course, some sites have no hookups, but may be near places or things you wish to visit. And that's why one needs a well-charged house battery

An Obituary

Once I check my e-mail using the Orland Library's WiFi, will include today's route below.
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Orland - Colusa - Yuba City - Grass Valley - Auburn - Placerville - Sutter Creek.

The Greening of 135 Van Ness in Santa Cruz

Sacramento RV Park near Redding, CA.

While I had intended to include a couple of RV links in this post along with a link to a blog done by one of the new owners of our former home at 135 Van Ness Avenue in Santa Cruz, I've just read her entire blog and believe it deserves a separate post.

The Craftsman style house in which we lived from November 1954 to October 2010 was built by a furniture dealer named Frank Chapman in 1922. A 1923 article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel states that as a co-owner and manager of a furniture at the NW corner of Pacific Ave and Cathcart Street he had increased the store's business by 50%, attracting customers from as far as San Francisco to the north and Hollywood to the south.

He also became active in the Chamber of Commerce and built a home on a lot on Van Ness Avenue, no doubt having some say in the selection of wood used for the dining room buffet and framing the doors and windows. Sadly, less then 6 months after the Sentinel article had appeared he was dead at age 56, if memory serves.

The next owner, Arthur D. Wirt, who was a former petroleum engineer for Standard Oil in Kern County, lived at 135 Van Ness from 1926 to 1946 -- and likely planted the two apples trees in the backyard,

After Arthur Wirt's death in 1946 former real estate agent Fred Garrison bought the house and made some changes. He had the brown siding covered with a fake brick; and he used the left-over faux-brick for the walls of a shed he added to east side of the garage. And he added a kitchenette and another bathroom to the bedroom in the SW corner of the house. By walling off the door into that bedroom, he had a 3-room rental. (Incidentally, there was a gas jet which could be used for a small one-burner stove and there was a Kelvinator refrigerator.)

One of his renters during WWII was noted SCHS math teacher Alpheus Green, who may have been directed to the rental by another SCHS math teacher, Harlan Smith.

When Fred Garrison died in 1953 his widow Hattie lived there for nearly a year before selling the house to my father in Nov 1954. Some of our family members lived there longer than others; for instance, my two sisters, Jane and Eloise both got married and moved out. And later so did David and then Warren. I maintained 135 Van Ness as my address of record while working for the US Forest Service and serving in the army, once I was discharged I returned to 135 Van Ness.
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However, the record-holder for living at the house which Frank built was my late mother, who lived there 55 years. Though I continued living there until the new owners took possession, I still didn't live there 55 years because of army service and 9 months teaching at Bishop Union High School.

But now the new owners, Chie Kawahara and Kurt Hurley will direct the evolution of 135 Van Ness. And you can not only follow that evolution but see some additional photos not provided by our real estate broker on Chie's blog, which is titled Midori Haus. (Not sure what "Midori" means in Japanese, but "House" is the English cognate for the German word "Haus.")

If you haven't been following Chie's blog, I suggest you start at the bottom with the first post and then move up to the more recent posts.
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I look forward to the next chapter in the evolution of the house Frank built.

Thursday's Route: Sacramento RV Park Resort - Chico - Orland

Redding, CA.

Am currently at the Redding Library, a relatively-new two story building in the city's Civic Center, which in turn is just to the south of South City Park. Finally got one problem with the camper solved late yesterday afternoon.

When I stopped for lunch at Weot on my way from Ft Bragg to Eureka/Arcata I turned on the light over the kitchen sink & sideboard. Nada! Since I later learned that all of the circuit breakers had been tripped, my guess is that there was a voltage spike which not only tripped all of the breakers but blew the fuse on the charging circuit for the house battery, which is underneath one of the dinette seats.

Thought I might have to buy a new house battery since it had been low the first night I used it at Jim's Tripp's estate near Castroville on F 19 Nov and again when I was staying with Steve & Arlene in Ft Bragg. Of course, at the latter place I had turned on the light in the bathroom while downtown shopping and then neglected to turn it off.

Since both Arlene & Steve are younger than I, they could hear the low-voltage alarm on the LP-gas detector, which sounds when the house battery drops to <= 8.5 volts, when they fetched some firewood from the front porch. However, I couldn't hear that alarm until I got to within 10 ft of the camper.(Guess I inherited the ears of Bob Sr, Loyal Sr, and Dave Wilcoxson Sr.)

The young fellow at the RV Service Center of Redding tested the battery under load and said it didn't act like one that was failing -- it just needed to be charged up. The battery is charged by the truck's alternator while I'm driving or when I'm connected up to 110 volts ac; but apparently in the latter case, it's a trickle-charge, which doesn't restore it to full power for a long time.

After the RV Service Center closed last night I returned to the Redding Library to look up an obituary for Clinton Earl "Doc" Fehliman, who not only taught at Santa Cruz High School for 30+ years but also headed the SCHS Alumni Association for an even greater number of years. He died here in Redding while living with a nephew. (Will post that obit to this blog shortly.)

Spent the night at the Sacramento River RV Resort in a large pull-through site with both 30 & 50 amp electrical hookups. Hwr, the 30 amp socket was damaged and I finally had to resort of my flashlights to fix yet another peanut-butter & jam sandwich on sourdough bread for dinner -- plus some other things. As I told the owner this morning when I tried to get my billing changed to a tent site, they need to fix the 30amp socket; but I doubt that they will since the large site is designed for Class A RVs (the ones which often look like and are as big as a bus) which generally connect to a 50amp socket.

In walking around the rig this morning this morning after compromising with the owner by paying for a back-in site rather than a pull-through site ($4-5 less), I discovered that the left rear tie-down was missing and the eye-bolt to which it was connected now looks like a hook. It could have happened last night while I was trying to find my way onto I-5 south and went through a dip (which was signed well in advance -- in fact, too far in advance since I was just starting to speed up when I hit it) with a large jolt. Didn't hear anything metallic falling shortly thereafter; so it's possible that it had already fallen off previously.

Object Lesson: Check rig daily in the morning.

When I leave Redding will head for either Orland & Black Buttes Reservoir to its west or Chico.