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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into California
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into California Author:Bathroom Readers' Institute From the redwood forest to the Mexican border, the Pacific coastline to the Mojave Desert, California is the most populous state in the Union and the eighth-largest economy in the world. And what better way to honor America?s most influential state than by devoting an entire Bathroom Reader to it? So Uncle John called on the California division ... more »of the Bathroom Readers? Institute to put together this compendium of all that?s great about the Golden State. Take a look at some of what?s inside:
Disneyland?s secret underground city, a mooning festival in Orange County, and America?s first hippie.
The Manhattan Project?s beginnings in a Berkeley restaurant.
Davis?s toad road, the Hearst Castle parody, and how Kinko?s got its name.
The California teenager who sneaked into the Manzanar internment camp during World War II.
John Steinbeck, Walt Disney, Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Gidget, and other creators of the California mythos.
The story of Wallis Simpson: the San Diego housewife who brought down a king.
Tahoe Tessie, the wild parrots of Pasadena, Los Angeles?s lizard people, and other California creatures.
How the French accidentally turned California wine into an international sensation.