[Accrs] Alameda County Fair creation????

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

We've lost a lot of momentum, which we have to regain.

We have a few Fridays before the night market weekend. Hopefully we can
restart and get the back gate exit organized in time for the next Good Guys
shoe.

Ted


On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 8:45 PM Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Gary Lewis  glgslewis at comcast.net
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> I don't have the answer for Dean's question.  However, I wanted to make a
> comment about last Friday night.  On the way home from work, I stopped by
> and drove in Gate 12.  No problem.  However, when I got to the area near
> us, it was more clear why we weren't allowed access.  There was far more
> activity and booths than I remember seeing for the Scottish games on Friday
> night than I've seen before.  I headed on out the front gate and there were
> a lot of booths on the way there.  Does anyone remember the past games on
> Friday night?  It seemed to me it was a relative handful of people setting
> up their tents and small booths and that was about it.
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> Gary
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> On 9/2/2018 5:08 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
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> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
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> I am in search of the document that granted the land to the Fair, for Fair
> use.   I can get it if I find out the date, the Grantee, etc.   Looking at
> the document may give us some way to fight the fair and the "Event
> Center".   That may not fall within the codes, covenents, etc of the
> granting document.
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> The race track was first set up in 1850.   Long time ago.  I ordered the
> book Andy mentioned.
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> Dean
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> On 9/2/2018 4:12 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
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> Message From: Theodore Tully  tullyme2 at gmail.com
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> Dean's question is a good one.
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> My brief search did not provide the answer.
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> Let's dig deeper.
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> Ted
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> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 12:49 PM Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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>> Message From: Andrew Herrera  czephyr1949 at gmail.com
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>> In Victoria Christian's book, Alameda County Fair
>> <http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=9780738581934&Store_Code=arcadia&search=NEW&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=name.asc&range_low=&range_high=%20%26srch_newbook%3D1>,
>> she unveils the history of what began as a ranching family's Sunday pastime
>> of horse racing. The original racetrack was built in 1850 by the Bernal
>> family on their 52,000-acre ranch, part of the Northern California land
>> grant Rancho Valle de San Jose.
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>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 12:40 PM Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
>> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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>>> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
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>>> Members,
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>>> Does anyone out there know the name(s) of the person or persons that
>>> granted the property to the Fair.   Also, do you know the date
>>> (approximate or actual) that this transfer of land, in perpetuity to the
>>> Alameda County Fair occured.
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>>> I would like to know any data you can provide.
>>>
>>> Dean
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