<VV> Cambria readies for Pinedorado

[Ebarr19 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/31/2007 11:18:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
corvair2 at earthlink.net writes:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/ticket/story/129351.html



The mention of the Cambria Pinedorado brings back some of my past ! I  was 
stationed at an USAF radar site in Cambria in the late 50's and also  worked 
part time at a Shell Station in Cambria and during the Pinedorado in 1957  Both 
William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Bing Crosby were co- Grand Marshalls  of the 
parade, they road a couple of Hearst's horses. They both came into  the station 
and I put gas in Bings 55 T-bird ( red ) Hearst did not get gas but  drove a 
47 Buick convt. and his wife drove a 55 Chevy nomad.
  The Hearst Castle is just 9 miles north and in San Simeon they had  a 
warehouse full of statues and stuff and Bing was buying up some of  the statues, 
the State took over the Castle in 1958 for a State Park attraction.  The Hearst 
Family still had the use of one of two Guest houses and ranch  land.
  Gene Barr 



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