“Some things I took away from the experience: Every Tom Dick & Harry got into it- was a modern day gold rush for a time. ”
“It was the search for wealth that first brought Europeans toward California. Some came looking for a sea route–called the Strait of Anián–through the Americas to Asia. Others came in pursuit of the legendary lands shrouded in the northern mysteries. A Spanish novel described one such land, very near the Terrestrial Paradise, that was home to passionate black women and wild animals in harnesses of gold. This fabled land was called the Island of California.”
excerpt from “History of California” website
Since I’ve started following the RE market here in Cali back in 05 I’ve often wondered why it is so volitile compared to the rest of the county. I wonder if it has something to do with the gold rush mentality that orginally populated the state that still resonates in todays inhabitants…
