Stockton Real Estate Trivia
Questions and Answers
Arnold Schwarzenegger was in real estate
5 Brooks, Advance, Alliance, Arcade, Aromas, Avocado, Badger, Badwater, Bagdad,
Bee Rock, Bend, Bivalve, Blunt, Booneville, Bumblebee, Bummerville, Cabbage
Patch, Cactus, Chiquita, Clapper Gap, Confidence, Cool, Cow Creek, Dairyville,
Date City, Deadman Crossing, Deadwood, Dixieland, Doghouse Junction, Dogtown,
Dunmovin, Eureka, Fair Play, Fallen Leaf, False Klamath Forks of Salmon, Fort
Dick, Freedom, Fruitland, Frying Pan, Gas Point, Globe, Grand, Hallelujah
Junction, Hardy, Harmony, Hellhole Palms, Hells Kitchen, Honda, Honeydew,
Hooker, Idlewild, Igo, Java, Jupiter, Keg, King Salmon, Klondike, Last Chance,
Laws, Little Penny, Mad River, Mormon Bar, Mystic, Nashville, Needles, Ono,
Orange, Peanut, Plaster City, Priest, Ragtown, Rainbow, Rancho Cucamonga,
Relief, Rescue, Rice, Roads End, Rough and Ready, Sargent, Scarface, Secret
Town, Shrub, Siberia, Skidoo, Sky High, Skytop, Soapweed, Soda Springs,
Squabbletown, Standish, Steam, Stone, Stovepipe, Strawberry, Sucker Flat, Surf,
Surfside, Surprise, Tarzana, Teakettle Junction, Thorn, Timbuctoo, Toadtown,
Truths Home, Volcan, Weed, Weedpatch, Wimp, You Bet, Yreka, Zzyzx
(Honest, we didn't make them up)
- Prior to its incorporation in 1850, Stockton had several names, including
'Tuleburg', 'Gas City' and 'Mudville'.
- Stockton was twice named an
All-America City(1999 & 2004).
- The historic Bob Hope Theatre (formerly Fox Theatre) in downtown Stockton is
one of only two 'movie palaces' in the
Central Valley.
- With over 100,000 trees, Stockton was thrice named 'best tree city' in the
western United States by Sunset magazine.
- Stockton was the first community in California to have a name not of Spanish
or Native American origin.
- George W. Bush Elementary School, located in north Stockton, is the first
public school in the nation to be named for a sitting president.
- During 1846, John Brown forewarned
Commodore Stockton of incoming enemy
troops.
- Charles Weber established the Temple Israel Cemetery in 1851 for Stockton’s
Jewish community.
According to findings reported in 1996, is Los Angeles, California.
"International Orange" is the official name of the orange-red paint used to
paint the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and it has always been that
color. Rejecting carbon black and steel gray, the color was chosen because it
blended well with the span's natural setting. Had the U.S. Navy's color request
been granted, the bridge would have been painted black with yellow stripes.
Painting the bridge is an ongoing task and its primary maintenance job. The
special paint protects the Golden Gate from the high salt content in the ocean
air, which rusts and corrodes the steel components.
 You can Boat from Stockton to The Golden Gate Bridge
The first year that the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was open, it carried
3.5 million vehicles. Today, the annual totals average close to 40 million. It
cost $35 million to build with the construction bonds being paid off in 1971.
The replacement cost is estimated to be about $1.3 billion.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was named one of the "Seven Wonders
of the Modern World" by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1994, along
with the Hoover Dam, Interstate Highway System, Kennedy Space Center, Panama
Canal, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and World Trade Center.
Although the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco took 25 million man-hours to
build, just eleven people were killed in accidents.
On February 22, 1985, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was crossed by its one
billionth car.
Spain
England
Russia
Argentina
Empire of Mexico
Republic of Mexico
Californians
The Fremont Flag
California Republic
and the United States of America.
In San Francisco. The term dates to the 1860s when a cemetery that stands where
the Civic Center is now located was converted into a park. A sand hill was
leveled to create a 17-acre park, which became known as the sandlots.
California Registered Historical Landmark #976 is a garage at 367 Addison Avenue
in Palo Alto. It's the birthplace of the world's first high-tech region, the
"Silicon Valley." The idea for such a region originated with Dr. Fredrick
Terman, a Stanford University professor who encouraged his students to start up
their own electronics companies locally, rather than join established firms on
the East coast. The first two students to follow his advice were David Packard,
who in 1938 was renting (with his wife) the ground floor of a small house, and
William R. Hewlett, who was single and living in a tiny cottage in the backyard.
That year they began developing their first product in a 12-foot by 18-foot
garage adjacent to the cottage. Hewlett Packard's first big order arrived two
years later: Walt Disney Productions purchased four resistance-tuned audio
oscillators for sound production of the classic film Fantasia.
Scrambled eggs and oysters. Created in Placerville, El Dorado County, for a
gold prospector who struck it rich and ordered the most expensive items on
the menu.
The fictional GI Joe character Flash was born in Lodi.
A & W Root Beer was concocted in Lodi by druggist Roy Allen in 1919.
The first bottled wine cooler, known as the California Cooler, was invented in
Lodi by Michael Crete and Stewart Bewley. Crete and Bewley later sold the
company for $55 million.
If California's economic size were measured by itself to other countries, it
would rank the 7th largest economy in the world.
The state motto is Eureka!, a Greek word translated "I have found it!" The motto
was adopted in 1849 and alludes to the discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada.
The State Bird is the California Quail, also known as the valley quail, nest in
hollows scratched in the ground and concealed by foliage. Eggs are creamy white
and thickly spotted with golden brown in 6 to 28.
The world's smallest mountain range is in California. it is Sutter Buttes, in
Sutter County.
Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland. The sign
stands 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across, weighs 450,000 pounds.
The U.S. county that occupies the smallest area is New York County – Manhattan.
Despite its small area, Manhattan is considered one of the world's foremost
commercial, financial, and cultural centers. It is renowned for its many points
of interest. Among these are Broadway, one of the world's best-known streets,
Wall Street, skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and the World Trade
Center, Greenwich Village, Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Metropolitan Opera House, the Museum of Modern Art, Columbia University, and New
York University.
Point Pinos Its beacon has flashed nightly as a guide and warning off the rocky
coast of California since 1855.
Alcatraz Lighthouse in 1854.
On December 27, 1956, California granted landmark status to the barn used by
director Cecil B. DeMille while making The Squaw Man in 1913. It was the first
film-related landmark so designated.
Outside Death Valley in California is a 134-foot steel-and-concrete thermometer
in the tiny town of Baker, population 500. The immense, $750,000 East Mojave
Desert landmark, built in 1991 to boost tourism, can be seen from five miles
away so tourists traveling along the interstate know exactly how hot it is in
the frequent record-holding "hot spot" in the nation.
The Whisky, located at 8901 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, was the West Coast's
first discotheque.
Carmel
Eel
San Joaquin
TruckeeAre the only California rivers that flow north.
The San Francisco cable cars
With over 100,000 trees, Stockton California was thrice named 'best tree city' in the
western United States by Sunset magazine.
is built to resemble a stack of records. A red airplane-warning light atop the
structure flashes out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code every 20 seconds or so.
Though the Las Vegas sprawl measures 15 miles wide by 15 miles long, most of the
30 million tourists each year tend to mob the 6-mile stretch of Las Vegas
Boulevard that includes both the Strip, home to the city's glittering,
impressive major casinos, and the downtown area.
A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room,
is referred to as?
a "silentium."
Although the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco took 25 million man-hours to
build, just eleven people were killed in accidents.
Among San Francisco’s skyscrapers, the huge Russ Building was downtown’s largest
office tower from 1927, when it was completed, through the 1950s.
At the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, pumps push
more than 2,000 gallons of sea water a minute through jets placed to
generate natural currents in the aquarium's kelp forest exhibit.
Monterey Bay Aquarium in northern California houses the Mysteries of the Deep
exhibit, the world's largest living exhibit of deep sea animals, featuring
catsharks, predatory tunicates, ratfish, and other species from the mile-deep
Monterey Canyon.
New York City has the most skyscrapers of any city in the world with 140.
Chicago is a distant second at 68. The term "skyscraper" technically describes
all habitable buildings with a height of more than 500 feet (152 m).
On December 27, 1956, California granted landmark status to the barn used by
director Cecil B. DeMille while making The Squaw Man in 1913. It was
the first film-related landmark so designated.
On February 22, 1985, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was crossed by its one
billionth car.
The states of Arizona, Indiana, and Hawaii have never
adopted Daylight Savings Time. Neither has Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
or American Samoa.
The first year that the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was open, it carried
3.5 million vehicles. Today, the annual totals average close to 40 million. It
cost $35 million to build with the construction bonds being paid off in 1971.
The replacement cost is estimated to be about $1.3 billion.
During 1846, John Brown forewarned Commodore Stockton of incoming enemy troops.
Charles Weber established the Temple Israel Cemetery in 1851 for Stockton’s
Jewish community.
Since its opening in 1937, more than 1,200 people have jumped to their death
from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Of those who have
taken the 250-foot drop, only 23 are know to have survived.
In 1951, Jack in the Box opened its first restaurant in San Diego, California,
pioneering the drive-thru concept and featuring 18-cent hamburgers.
The Old Chinese Telephone Exchange in San Francisco was completed in
1909.Operators were required to be proficient in English and five Chinese
dialects. They were also obliged to learn every phone number of every one of the
company's 2,400 clients because the Chinese believed it was rude to refer to a
person as a number.
Kennedy Mine Found in Jackson California was once the richest gold mine in
the world and the deepest mine in North America.
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