Roger the Hangtown, before that it was Old Dry Diggins......and we have 10 out
of 20 running if you count the 914 (VW engine), Bob

Malcolm Holser wrote:

> The one-car-per acre is a minimum, I think.  The Rancheria down the road
> looks like a Pick'n'Pull yard -- dead fire engines and ambulances, buses,
> old trucks -- you name it.  When you get too many, the county will make
> you put up a fence (junkyards require fences apparently).  If you don't
> require a fence yet, you are still safe.  20:8 is not bad -- we are at
> 10:7 right now, but I think that "runners" don't really count as much
> as dead ones.  Currently, we have six that actually run, so we are
> marginal.
>
> For those of you that may not be familiar with California, Placerville
> is another foothills-of-the-Sierra Mother-lode gold town, fairly near
> Sacramento.  "Placerville" is the new, polite name -- it _was_ called
> "hangtown" originally, on account of the favorite passtime in the
> old west.
>
> Mariposa, nearest town to me, is fairly far south -- almost the end of
> the gold country (both towns are served by Highway 49 -- like 1849).
> We were a more sedate area, home to John Fremont (first Republican
> Presidential candidate [he lost]), Frederick Law Olmstead, the father
> of landscape architecture, and Galen Clark, the first "Guardian of
> the Wilderness" (Denver Pyle played him in the truely awful movie
> of the same name).
>
> Hangtown's a cool place (not literally -- it, like much of inland
> California is an oven most of the time).  Worth a visit, as is much
> of the Highway 49 "Motherlode".  Good place for Volkswagens (obligitory
> Vanagon content).
>
> Malcolm H.
>
> At 06:45 PM 10/25/98 , you wrote:
> >I guess I gotta thin out as I may be "Over Farming", have 20 on only 8
> >acres....Help!!
> >Bob Calkins Placer ville, Ca
> >
> >
> >Malcolm Holser wrote:
> >
> >> Malcolm Holser and family,
> >>
> >> in Midpines, California, about 30 miles outside of Yosemite Valley, the
> >> single most beautiful place on the planet.  We own a whole raft of VW's
> >> a Toyota Landcruiser, and an Acura Legend.  My father had a VW Beetle,
> >> 1952, when I was born, but we went to a 54 Deluxe Microbus (I was the
> >> youngest of seven children).  My first VW was a '57 singlecab.  Currently
> >> we have four "runners" and four non-runners at our place, doing our best
> >> to uphold the tradition of a minimum 1-car-per-acre of rural America.
> >>
> >> Our "runners" are:
> >>
> >> 1980 Vanagon Westfalia -- been all over the US, almost.
> >> 1986 vanagon GL -- the "Scout-mobile"
> >> 1986 Transporter Kombi Syncro -- a big red beast
> >> 1986 Transporter Syncro Doublecab -- beigish-brownish, matches our dirt.
> >>
> >> Along with a 1972 Westy, a 1977 bus, a 1981 Vanagon and a 1982 Diesel
> Westy.
> >>
> >> Formerly a Park Ranger in Yosemite, now a computer geek in the silicon
> >> valley, where I go for meetings and such in a small plane.
> >