The California People’s Wagon

In the 1950s, Sears was America’s favorite department store, marketing everything from hog feeders to wedding dresses—and a spiffy little automobile called the Allstate.

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News that Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reminds us that the company twice tried to leverage its position as America’s biggest retailer—the Amazon of its day—to become a player in the lucrative market for cars.

On this day, I John Presco, create The Californian Wagon! The…..

CALFORIA

I suspect the Christian Trumpire is going to quit NATO today. Putin, Trump, Musk, Johnson, Netanyahu

HATE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

…..and with glee they conspired to take away all the SECULAR GOVERNMENT JOBS so there are no longer offices for them to got to – AND WORK! There are reports of hospitals closing in Lane County due to the Christian Capitalist Collect WEAPONIZING FOOD AND MEDICINE! As a Biblical Scholars and Historian, this is an old evil tactic of many Christianized Warrior Nations.

I bid Governor Newsom, contact Meg Whitman, and purchase the land that used to be the Califnrna Barrel Company, and Spreckles Sugar, and build

THE CALIFORNIA CHURCH OF NATO

This Church will represent the best of Christianty that Europe produced. It will be like Hobby Lobby. The Fake Republican Church of God We Tust – will not be able to touch the CCNATO, that will ship food and medicen all over the world in our NATO CONTAINERS! I bid Newsom to build

THE CALFORIA

The most advanced automobile of our time that promotes CLEAN AIR! NATO solar power stations will be built all over America – and the world!

Young People need a classic care to drive – a real car made of steal. I suggest

THE SEARS CALIFORIA

Kaizer built Victory Ships in the Bay Area – that BEAT THE JAPS AND NAZIS. Sears sol these Allstates gems. When you buy a California, you get health insurance – TOO! This Medical Insurance can be set up as a BOND, that appreciates with age.

John Presco

President: California Barrel Company

In 1950, Kaiser-Frazer began production of a new compact car, the Henry J[4] and ended production of the Frazer automobiles.[5] Both makes were 1951 model year automobiles. In 1952 and 1953, Kaiser-Frazer provided Sears, Roebuck and Company with Allstate-branded automobiles that retailers sold through select Sears Auto Centers. Based on the Henry J models that Kaiser-Frazer dealers were selling, the cars were in the Sears catalog, but the cars could not be purchased by mail order.[6]

Janke Park, Hall, And Stagecoach Line

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press

          Very few families can say their kindred owned a Stagecoach Line, Theme Park, and a Turnverein Hall, or two. Carl Janke was half owner of the Belmont Accommodation Company that ran between Belmont ‘Beautiful Mountain’, and Halfmoon Bay. Mrs. Walter E. Janke was the President of the Cap and Bells Club that employed the cap of the Jester in its emblem. Consider the Merry Pranksters. Musicals, plays, and  “Jinks” were performed. Consider the Hi-jinks of the all male Bohemian Club. Is this a feminists answer?  It appears the Cap and Bells founded an art gallery. Was this the formation of the Outdoor Art League?“CAP AND BELLS CLUB OPENS ART GALLERYAn event In the life of the Cap and Bells club took place yesterday afternoon with the opening of the permanent art gallery for women at the clubrooms 1509 Gough street. About 70 canvases are hung in the gallery at the rear of the building, which has a most excellent northern light. , The pictures shown are by women artists only. Paintings from this city, Piedmont and Monterey were shown. The president of the club, Mrs. F. H. Colburn. received the guests, assisted by several club presidents from around the bay. Mrs. Lyman Dickerson Foster was tea hostess and will continue to be at the receptions on the three opening days, with an able corps of assistants. Other club presidents will assist in receiving the guests today and tomorrow.

The Art League held a event in Mill Valley that looks like a Renaisance Fair.

OUTDOOR ART LEAGUE HAS YULETIDE FESTIVAL

Old Time Music and Costumes. Features of Jinks

Special Dispatch to The Call. MILL VALLEY. Jan. 9.— An old English yuletide festival was” given last night, with fifteenth century, music and costumes of the same period, by , the Outdoor Art. league. The jinks was under the direction of Mrs. F. ßostick and each member of the club brought one guest; so that there was a large” gathering of society folk.”

What we are beholding in the Genesis of the Hippie/Bohemian Movement. This is the heart and soul of San Francisco Culture. The Outdoor Art League played a big roll in rebuilding this world famous city after the Earthquake of 1907. This may be the first instance where a group of artists contribute to the redevelopment of a major city.

These are Magical Tree People. Janke built spiral stairs to take his guests into the embrace of the Giant California Oaks. Here are the Ents and the Hobbits celebrating life, art, poetry, dance, and music. I see young lovers in the tree tops beholding rainbow sunsets and the bright star in the West. This is the first Disneyland. Here come the Jester of the Jinks, with her Magic Wand. Do you hear the tinkling of the bells high in the tree amongst the stars of the Milky Way. Tinker Belle of Beautiful Mountain.

Disneyland is famous for its monorails.

“The same year the Belmont Soda Works opened, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) hired 75 Southern Pacific railroad cars to transport 7,000 of its members from San Francisco to Belmont Park. There, 1,000 other members met them there, making the largest picnic ever held at Belmont Park.

Jon Presco

Copyright 2014

Victoria Bond At California Barrel

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press

Aileen Getty and Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor

The Naming of The Heron

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press

Pet-friendly Apartments in Eugene, OR

I just realized I have carried on family tradition of giving the Victor name to members of my family that includes Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor who is in the family tree of Carl Janke and William Stuttmeister. If she were alive, she would be well – pleased.

On Monday the Mayor of Eugene talked out of both sides of her mouth near The Ugly Blue Heron – and the fictional British Art Department that I created on May 23, 2024 at EWEB. Major City Governments employ artists, writers, dancers and musicians to back their civic projects. They claim We Bohemians are on their side. But, they huddle in the backrooms with….The Art Of Money Department.

AOMD

The AOMD is steeped the Art of Bait and Switch! My ‘Ugly Haroon De-Construction Company will cut out the Dark Middle Bull, and go to The Source!

In 1987, my childhood friend, Nancy Hamren, got me on Further in the Eugene Celebration Parade. She was at my graduation at Serenity Lane. She hoped I could do an intervention of Ken Kesey who was told he would die if he did not quit drinking. He died!

Today I own 36 years of sobriety, yet I am made out to be an insane alcoholic drug addict – who needs to be locked up! I now understand I OWN REAL SOLUTIONS and am being SABOTAGED! Why?

I AM THE BLUE HERON PANEL!

John Presco

President: California Barrel Company

Co-Chairman: The Ugly Heron De-Construction Company….Founded on the ideas Orson Welles depicted in his movie ‘The Trail’.

The Trial of The Civic Savior

by

Watnerfront Johnny

John Kain puts on the morning coffee and turned on the news. Once again he is bid to SAVE the downtown!

“Why me? ” he asks, to no avail, for he once again is put ON TRIAL for being a BAD citizen. Like, Groundhog Day, his routine begins. He calls his attorney who has a office in the massive Benevolent Food Card building, and Identification Shop….

The Trial (FrenchLe Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: “The Trial is the best film I have ever made”.[2] The film begins with Welles narrating Kafka’s parable “Before the Law” to pinscreen scenes created by the artists Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker.

You don’t ever want to get on the dark side of Starfish. Victoria had seen it on the day she was interviewed for the job of being her bodyguard. This, scariness, was a good thing, but, now that they were lovers, she had second thoughts – especially after Miriam got shit-faced on one Zig Zag Beer. What the fuck!

Vinis’ Blue Ribbon Panel aims for economic progress in Eugene


by Gold Meadows and KVAL.com StaffMon, June 24th 2024 at 2:53 PM

Updated Mon, June 24th 2024 at 5:31 PM

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EUGENE, Ore. — Mayor Lucy Vinis’ Blue Ribbon Panel on Economic Development shared its final report to guide the city of Eugene’s economic growth.

The panel formed last year to better represent and respond to the needs of a diverse business community.

Communication, sharing of strategies, expanding tools and improving the infrastructure for businesses to thrive were the report’s key categories.

Workforce development and development of all housing types were among the 12 recommendations falling under those categories.

Mayor Vinis said the city is working on plans to tackle affordable housing.

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“Affordable housing needs support. You need to provide some kind of ways to alleviate the cost of construction. We have several things in place already with the construction excise tax and the multiple unit property tax exemption that creates funds for our affordable housing trust fund,” said Vinis.

The final report was delivered Monday along the Downtown Riverfront at the new city hall nearby three new housing units that are underway at market rate, with a fourth affordable housing unit awaiting the additional funding for the project to begin.

Vinis said she’s not worried as the city works with experienced non-profits to obtain funding from federal and state sources to complete the projects.

Her hope is to retain businesses and bring more housing downtown through a collaborative effort.

“We live within a larger landscape, in which we have a high rate of drug abuse. We have a high rate of untreated mental illness. Those are not issues that the city itself can solve. We look to our partners at the county and the state to invest in those programs, and we do our part to address the safety on the street. The business community is very much a part of that conversation.”

One panel recommendation — make it an ongoing conversation, which Mayor-Elect Kaarin Knudson said will take place.

“I say all the time that the work that we do as a community, it comes back to our connections to each other; our understanding of shared concerns, our understanding of how it is that we might be in disagreement and then figuring out how it is that we want to work together. So the opportunity for people to meet regularly is important,” said Knudson.

Mayor Vinis wants each meeting of the panel to address the needs of marginalized communities in business.

“One of the major barriers to BIPOC business owners getting started was really access to resources. One of the ways that the city of Eugene could help support that is to actually have a business loan program that has a lower barrier.” Black Cultural Initiative Executive Director Talicia Brown-Crowell said.

And as she nears the end of her second term, Vinis said this report is one of her defining moments as mayor, as is her formation of a Youth Advisory Council.

Vinis said she takes pride in the work she’s done to address climate and homelessness.

Fleet Week On The Willamette

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press

4 groups approach Eugene with plans for old EWEB steam plant building ...

Victoria Bond felt serene for the first time in a year. She found time to create another work of art in her studio at The British Art Department. As she chipped away at her block of marble, she looked over at her new friend, John Presco, working on his rendering of the January 6th. storming of his Nation’s Capitol. A small cherry-picker was brought in to assist Mr. Presco in completing his fiteen by twenty foot masterpiece that he planned to present to Presdient Bidn when he wins another twem.

The Old California Barrel Company

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press

The Royal Janitor

by

John Presco

Copyright 2021

Victoria found the old California Barrel Company in a old phone directory. There were two of them. One was located in the Dogpatch area south of San Francisco, and the other offshore of Belmont on the really old Wharf Road. Making their way carefully down the rickety wharf to the house that sat at the end of it, they passed a chicken coop. Just as they were about to knock at the door, it flew open, and there stood a jovial Santa-looking gentleman in his seventies!

“I knew I was going to have company today! My name is William Stuttmeister Janke, the proprietor of the original California Barrel Company. I’m going to have to fix my ladder and get up there and freshen up my fading sign. Are you looking to buy some barrels?”

“No thanks!,” said Victoria. “We came to talk to you!”

“How did you know we were coming?” asked Starfish. “And why are you wearing a Communist Russian flag?”

“Oh good! Glad to meet someone that brought their curiosity with them. I’m the only living augur in the world. If your chickens lay the big end of their egg facing north, it means there is someone coming to pay you a visit. I wear this flag to to keep the gossipmongers at safe distance. There are some vicious busybodies these days, and they respect no one’s boundaries. Many of them are Christians who insist it is their right – and duty – to discover if you are one of them. They can see me coming a mile off. They check me off their mental list, and even give me a quick smile out the corner of their mouth as if to say;

“At least one of them is honest!”

“I’m a Christian! Miriam Starfish declared, while taking a tiny step backwards to brace herself for what may come next.”

“Yes. I know!”

“How do you know?” Demanded Starfish!

“You’re little earing caught a ray of morning light! I felt I was transported to the Outremer and was Saladin gazing at the Crusader Army coming at him across the wilderness like John the Baptist.”

“Careful, old man, I will not tolerate blasphemy in my presence!” said Starfish with a scowl.

“Oh good. We got a feisty one this morning. Here’s a fishing pole. Let’s go to the end of the pier and see what we can catch. I’m a biblical scholar and know everything about the Crusades. He was a Kurd, you know?”

“What do you know about the Bohemian Club?” piped Victoria, as she took her borrowed pole. “We are looking for the origin. We want the list of the original members.”

“You are not alone!” Here, reach in that bucket and grab a live shrimp.”

Yesterday I purchased californiabarrelcompany.com. This is my e-mail address

johnpresco@californiabarrelcompany.com

The name of my think tank is

THE CALFORNIA BARREL COMPANY that in theory is located in Belmont California. I will purchase a P.O. Box. A contractor associated with Meg Whitman took my copyrighted name of the company my great grandfather, William Broderick, worked for. Members of the Belmont Historical Society gave me the Bum’s Rush and warned me I was violating their copyright by posting a old photograph of my great grandfather, William Janke. Consider this a Copyright War. Have you ever seen the movie ‘The Mouse That Roared’?

“Jerusalem has come!”

(2) Jerusalem Has Come – Kingdom of Heaven (2005). – YouTube

(2) The Mouse that Roared TRailer – YouTube

California Barrel Company, LLC, and Port of San Francisco Application Summary on Permit Application No. 2019.006.00

uly 3, 2020
Application Summary
Potrero Power Station
(For Commission consideration on July 16, 2020)
Permit Application Number: 2019.006.00
Applicants: California Barrel Company, LLC, and Port of San Francisco
Project Description: Develop a 29-acre residential neighborhood, including a
waterfront park.
Location: In the Bay and within the 100-foot shoreline band, at Illinois
Street, between 22nd Street and 23rd Street, in the City and
County of San Francisco,
Application Filed Complete: June 2, 2020
Deadline for Commission Action: August 31, 2020
Staff Contact: Yuri Jewett (415/352-3616; yuriko.jewett@bcdc.ca.gov)
Figure 1. The project site is located on the Southeast San Francisco Waterfront, at a former PG&E power plant.Potrero Power Station Project Page 2
Application Summary on Permit Application No. 2019.006.00 July 3, 2020
Project Overview
Project Description
The proposed project would redevelop an approximately 29-acre formerly industrial site along
San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront, with a variety of uses including residential, commercial
office, life/science office, retail, community facilities, light industrial, a boutique hotel, parks,
outdoor recreation, and public assembly uses. At build-out, approximately 11,335 residents and
employees would use the site daily, in addition to members of the public.
The project involves work both within and outside the Commission’s permitting jurisdiction. The
majority of the site, including the residential and commercial development components of the
project, are located outside the Commission’s permitting jurisdiction. Within the Commission’s
100-foot shoreline band, the project would involve construction of a Waterfront Park and other
public access areas, as well as the relocation of an existing sea wall, removing approximately
1,038 square feet of existing upland fill and expanding the Bay. In the Bay, the project includes
repair of existing shoreline protection, as well as construction of a new wharf for a Bay overlook
area and, if feasible, a new recreational dock. Three dedicated view corridors would provide
visual connections through the mixed-use development to the shoreline.
Bay Fill
The proposed project would result in approximately 7,025 square feet and 1,076 cubic yards of
net Bay fill. The project would include approximately 3,213 square feet (455 cubic yards) of fill
for shoreline protection work, the majority of which would be to repair existing riprap
revetments. Fill would also be authorized to construct an approximately 1,299-square-foot pilesupported overlook terrace within the Waterfront Park. Finally, if determined feasible, the
project would include construction of an approximately 3,551-square-foot pile-supported
public recreational dock.
Public Access
At present, the project site is inaccessible to the public and no shoreline public access exists.
The proposed project would develop approximately 2.86 acres of new shoreline public access
areas along the approximately 1,293-foot-long shoreline. This includes 0.24 acres in the Bay,
2.05 acres within the 100-foot shoreline band, and 0.57 acres outside of the Commission’s
permitting jurisdiction. Based on a forthcoming feasibility analysis, the recreational dock, if
constructed, would result in an additional 0.08 acres of dedicated public access in the Bay, for a
total of approximately 2.95 acres of dedicated public access areas. The project would also
develop approximately 4 acres of open spaces elsewhere within the interior of the project site.
The proposed shoreline public access would include three major areas connected by the Bay
Trail/Blue Greenway: (1) a Waterfront Park featuring a lawn area, Bay overlooks, and if
determined feasible for construction, a recreational dock; (2) a nature-based recreation and
picnic area called “The Point” that includes a public access pier atop an existing intake
structure; and (3) a public plaza constructed as part of the former power plant known as “Stack
Plaza” would be anchored with an approximately 300-foot-tall historic smokestack. Potrero Power Station Project Page 3
Application Summary on Permit Application No. 2019.006.00 July 3, 2020
Figure 2. From top to bottom: renderings of Stack Plaza, The Point, and Waterfront Park. Potrero Power Station Project Page 4
Application Summary on Permit Application No. 2019.006.00 July 3, 2020
Flooding and Sea Level Rise
The project’s primary approach to addressing rising sea levels involves raising the majority of
the site, including the Bay Trail/Blue Greenway and most shoreline public access areas, to 11.33
feet above today’s Mean High Tide. The lower-lying approach to the recreational dock would be
anticipated to experience flooding during a 100-year storm event by 2050, but would remain
viable during non-storm conditions and less extreme events.
The applicants have identified a number of possible future adaptive measures for the shoreline,
such as reconstructing or elevating public access areas, including the approach to the
recreational dock. The applicants would prepare a Sea Level Rise Adaptive Management Plan
within 5 years of occupancy of the first phase of the project, which would be updated on an
ongoing basis every 5 years and would identify needed adaptive management measures and
establish a timeline and process for implementing these measures. The application indicates
that a funding mechanism for necessary adaptation measures would be established with a
special project tax administered through a Community Facilities District (CFD).
Schedule and Cost
Construction would begin as early as fall 2020 and occur over six major phases. The lease
agreement between California Barrel Company, LLC and the Port of San Francisco establishes a
schedule of performance with outside dates by which construction of each phase is to
commence and be completed. By this schedule, the project may be built out as early as 2030 or as late as 2036. The estimated total project cost is approximately $1.425 billion.

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Gavin Newsom For The Arts

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press

On cue, Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference and announced massive aide for the Homeless and The Arts. I had just sent my business proposal to the City Government of Belmont, who have no Arts Program that I am aware of. I had talked with a friend about getting Grace Slick to do paintings in Charlatan Square as part of my Cultural Package for the Belmont that needs to get the Governor’s attention, being, I am kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, as is Belmont Pioneer, Carl Janke. Michael Wilding married Aileen Getty, and thus Carl Janke is in the Getty Family Tree. This Getty Tree For The Arts adopted Gavin when he was a teenager. The J. Paul Getty father and son moved to England. Junior was Knighted by the Queen and was titled “Sir” after he became a British subject. Liz Taylor was Knighted by the Queen for her contribution to the Film Industry that made California great.

John Presco

President: Belmont Soda Works

The investment would be broken into three parts: $8.75 billion for homeless housing units and affordable apartments; $3.7 billion for homeless prevention and rental support; and $1.5 billion to clean up roadways and public spaces.

The California Barrel Company of San Francisco

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press

Bohemian Club

Bohemian Club Members of the Bohemian Club, including California Gov. Ronald Reagan (centre left) and U.S. Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (centre right), at Bohemian Grove, California, 1967.The California Barrell Company

The California Barrel Company

by

John Presco: President of Royal Rosamond Press

Copyright 2020

An idea for a book, movie, and cable series.

William Broderick supervised the loading of two hundred barrels onto the freight car in Dogpatch, and now accompanied them on the barge to the dock in Oakland. He could just make out Joaquin Miller’s white home in the hills that sat as a Bohemian Beacon above the Stuttemeister orchard. Bill had picked a fight with the old curmudgeon and fraud about having his brigades of artistic circus clowns marching up and down the road they shared that was in theory, the Stuttmeister Road, that was later changed to Berlin Way. Now there were Japanese poets coming and going, and this made Bill’s German kindred, nervous. After the great earthquake, the Suttmiesters found sanctuary in Oakland, along with a couple of hundred well to do German Pioneers that had gone to the San Francisco Opera to hear Caruso sing.

When Miller took a keen interest in his daughter, Melba Broderick, who he carried on his knee when they took the trolley Frisco, Bill bought a new Victorian home on 13th. Street in Oakland. To his chagrin, Melba found out Gertrude Stein lived down the street and had known her idol, Isadora Duncan. At ten, Melba was found having tea and scones with literary greats, she helping Gertrude conduct her salon just before it moved to Paris. She was paid to do the dishes. There was no escaping the influence of Joaquin, who Bill had run into at the Bohemian Club, and, had to indure his non-stop bragging about the royalty he met when he went to Europe, and the Pre-Raphaelite artists he had dinner with at Gabriel Rossettis.

Bill celebrated Miller’s death in his own way. When he heard Bohemian Club members had built a funeral pyre and were going to burn the bloated braggard, he notified the authorities. Broderick had complained about the outdoor Japanese barbeques that filled the air with the stench of all kinds of meat, that wafted downhill under certain conditions, and wiped out the beautiful smell of cherry blossoms on the ranch When the cherries were ripe, they were sold for a pretty penny in Jingle Town, a cannery located on the Oakland Estuary where Jack London docked his oyster boat.

Frederick Jacob Koster had invited Bill Broderick to the Bohemian Grove Hijinks. It was while talking to a railroad magnet about how Prohibition was ruining many honest businessmen, that Bill came up with his brilliant plan to provide Bootleggers with barrels, and keep the profits of freightage rolling into the pocket of railroad owners.

“What if we put another product in our barrels that can be consumed. The Feds can not stop us. One is left with an empty barrel – to do with it you please. What if we shipped grapes? We can pack them in sawdust. We got plenty of that!”

“Sounds like a brilliant plan! I know an Italian who has planted a vineyard in Sonoma. Infact, there he is chatting with Frank Buck. You will want to talk to him, too. He’s becoming the biggest grower in California.”

Bill Broderick of Barrel and Box

Posted on February 26, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press

This morning I found an article about Bill Broderick and the California Barrel Company. What an historic account, that I have sent to the Mayor of San Francisco, and the Board of Supervisors. It’s all here, the elements that made San Francisco, and California – great!

William Frederick Broderick is trying to save a successful business, that due to prohibition, is on the ropes. My mother told me Bill traveled across America selling barrels. Bill has stopped in Chicago where Al Capone is making a fortune as a bootlegger, and arrives in Cleveland Ohio. Bill’s boss, Frederick Koster, must be furious to see organized crime families prospering, while he and his five hardworking bothers are desperate to keep their cooperage business afloat. Frederick is a member of the Bohemian Club, and the Law and Order Club. He may be one of the reasons the Mafia never got a foothold in the Bay Area. Frederick is ahead of his time in how he treated those who worked for him. They were like family. He shortened their work day, and paid good wages. Bill and Fred are promoting California Grapes. They made barrels for this billion dollar industry. They are Pioneers!

“One of the disciples of good barrel and service to meet the conditions of their customers, is William Broderick, sales manager of the California Barrel Company, San Francisco, Calif. Mr. Broderick attended the convention, stopping off at Chicago en route. Mr. Broderick is a natural born salesman, and certainly has the creative idea in salesmanship which is demonstrated by the fact not withstanding from the loss of business from wine and whiskey operations, the cooperage shops in the country and the manufactures supplying the same have kept busy even in maximum capacity during the past year and  half, since prohibition arrived, which leads us all to do the same kind of constructive salesmanship. Malaga grapes have always been shipped in kegs and packed in ground cork, but in the last years, California has a become a great factor in furnishing the world with Malaga grapes packed in redwood sawdust. The California Barrel Company, as well as other cooperage institutions on the coast, are making kegs to deliver these grapes seasoned without moisture, to various markets of the world. Bill Broderick is one of the fellows who made this possible by demonstrating to our merchants the value of California grapes packed in the right way, in the right kind of packaging!”

Bravo!

I have put forth an idea for a Working Museum that preserves very valuable history, and creates jobs by giving new life to the ancient art of cooperage. I follow in my grandfather’s footsteps. It is my ambition to make the people of San Francisco – Big Winners!

John Presco

President: Royal Rosamond Press

Copyright 2019

Dear Mayor and Board;

My great grandfather, William F. Broderick, was a salesman and Director for the California Barrel Company that was located near the Portreo Power Plant that was just purchased for Redevelopment. The CBC got started by shipping Spreckels sugar. Claus Spreckels did business with president, Frederick Jacob Koster, and his four brothers. Their businesses were next to each other.

This morning I found an article about William who was interviewed by a reporter for . He speaks about shipping Malaga Grapes to cities across America – in barrels! Here is a merger with California grapes. Prohibition has just begun, and the cooperage industry is in crisis. Frederick Koster has gone abroad to map ut  market in the Orient. Barrel and sailing ships go hand in hand. What I am proposing is a cooperage museum that would contribute to San Francisco’s tourist trade, and cooper college at the old site. There is a historic building and facade that could be used for this Trade College. The art of barrel making is coming back.

I have seen beautiful Japanese and Chinese packaging in museum. I saw wondrous labels on crates when I worked as lumper in the produce market in Jack London Square. Packaging is an art form, a craft that can give merchants new ideas.

To help fund this college a museum, I suggest quality prints be made of the amazing machinery invented to make barrels. I put a copyright in this book, but, your people may know how to do this. I have found no cooperage college in America.  Meg Whitman purchased the PPP property and founded Qubi. She might want to imitate Alva Spreckels who was give the title ‘The Grandmother of San Francisco. The people around Meg have been selfish with information. Perhaps this is because I copyrighted the CBC name in 2011, and am the owner of californiabarrelcompany.co.

Associate Capital chose this name for a company that is floating around in Business Law World for reasons that are beyond my understanding. I have sent e-mails to several people offering my ideas. I got not response. The way I see it, the People of San Francisco deserve to see their history preserved, and, bring Civic Prosperity – now! Let’s build a dream – today!

Sincerely

John Presco

President: Royal Rosamond Press

Victor Hugo – Last Bohemian

Posted on February 22, 2020by Royal Rosamond Press

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