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Nevada City, CA
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7/8/2009Nevada City, CA. does have a population of around 4500 (IN THE CITY LIMITS)as of now. The funny thing is that the surrounding area including Grass Valley, in Western Nevada county, is closer to 120,000 plus people now, (who have all escaped from the metro areas in CA. and thus brought their mess with them). Its now become a crowded "Disneyland" with some pine trees.
When I was a Kid growing up, there was no freeway, people worked in the mills or as loggers, gold mining was still active, and fishing was excellent. I'll bet 10 to 1 that not one person first stopped on the streets of Western Nevada County could even name a place to fish within 10 minutes of their house.
Glenbrook "Plaza" was grazing land for cattle, with a pond on the eastern side where you could fish and go out on a row boat. "Georges Market and T.V Repair" shop was on the west side on Hiway 49. Brunswick road was a narrow two lane winder up the hill to Cedar Flat.
The Idaho Maryland mine was still standing tall and proud with its stamp mill all rusty and "no tresspassing" signs all around. Gracie road was mostly
gravel, and there were mine openings here and there, boarded up, but still accessible to the daring. At that time in the late 60's, there may have been
18,000 people in western Nevada County.
Oh well, time is time, and I left in 1982 to find work elsewher and was tired of the onslaught of "flatlanders".
When I do visit on occassion with some friends still there, it is with great relief to get out of that zoo, head down hiway 20 to 70 to 99 north to I-5 north and hit the rain country north of the California border.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Simonis