[Leica] RE: LUG Digest, Vol 31, Issue 292

[william.mattheis at navy.mil (Mattheis, William G CIV)]

I grew up in Vallejo, CA and the trip to Sacto was always pretty exciting as 
the last few miles were over a wooden causeway that passed over the rice 
fields and Sacto river floods et al.  That was when I80 was US40 and the big 
town along the way were Fairfield (about 10,000 souls), Vacaville (a few 
thousand and an onion hydrator that always told you when you were 
approaching town).  Then there was the Nut Tree, which at that time truly 
had huge walnut trees in the median strip that divided North US40 and South 
US40.  Later in my life (1964-1968) I made many trips to Davis where the 
love of my life (at that time) had become an "Aggie" at the newly minted UC 
Davis.  I was matriculating at UC Berkeley and often made the trip by 
whatever means I could line up on the weekends - - buddies with a car, the 
Grey Dog, or, at times (when the weather was good) a trip on my motorcycle.

Of course, compared to Berkeley and the Bay Area in the Hippie Era of the 
late 1960's, Davis was an incredibly tame place.  Bicycles were totally de 
riguerur, and the best know part of the University was the College of 
Veterinary Medicine.  Dates consisted of trips by bicycle (borrowed in my 
case), and I think smoking was considered illicit drug use by the local 
gendarmes - - rockin' frat parties with lots of booze (the rule at Berkeley 
among other transgressions) were just not in the offing.

Of course, those are my views at ages 18-21.  I am sure that I would find 
the Davis of the '60s to be my piece of cake now that a few years have 
"mellowed" me a bit.

Thanks for triggering the memories.  By the way, the love of my life married 
a guy she met at Davis while I was in Southeast Asia.  Seems I loved being 
in the Army and she, perhaps rightfully so, couldn't make that leap.

Bill

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Jeffery, you wouldn't recognize Winters now. It's growing along the
foothills and outside - people driving I-505 into the Bay Area and
Sacramento now. The victorians are all being remodeled and now they
have The Palms which moved from Davis a few years ago. It's still a
very very civil little town. The Buckhorn still makes the best
Tri-tips in Yolo County.

Unfortunately UCD has pushed the campus core density way up. It's
still bikes and pedestrians only, thank God but now there are 27,000
students. I was at UCD only a few years after it became a general
campus (before then it had been the university farm and is the largest
land grant college in the US).