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Local books: Tracing history through high school yearbooks
“Sports were everything to me,” recalled Michael Messner as he reflected on his years growing up in Salinas. Michael’s father, Russ Messner, was a beloved basketball coach at Salinas High School from 1947 until his death in 1977.“During my boyhood and early adolescence, I felt like the luckiest kid in town while serving as the […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: April 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM PDT
Carol McKibben, The story of Salinas: A city in struggle, but persevering
“Everything was centered on the 300 block of Main Street,” Jack Armstrong recalled about Salinas as he was growing up in the late 1940s, “Doctors, bankers, CPAs, all the professionals and businesspeople had their offices in the center of town. They all knew one another and would go to the Elks Club around the corner for lunch every day. They played cards, joked around; then it was back to work. It was a tight group.
The story of Salinas: A tale of two labor movements
It all began with women in 1933. The mostly white women lettuce trimmers in the packing houses, many of whom were new arrivals escaping the ravages of the Dust Bowl, struck for equal pay and became catalysts for both union actions and the grower-shipper responses. Women made up an important part of the 3,000 members of the Fruit and Vegetable Workers Union of Salinas in the 1930s but earned 5 cents less an hour than men who did the same job.
The story of Salinas: Alisal provided a safety valve, as Salinas stayed a ‘white’ city
By the 1920s, Salinas needed immigrants to support an agricultural industry that had expanded exponentially. As a result, the city became the destination for massive numbers of new immigrants of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Mexican and southern European descent. Nonetheless, both promotional literature and U.S. census data accurately depicted Salinas as majority white.
The Story of Salinas: How World War II devastated families of Japanese descent
Marilyn Greene, a young Jewish middle-schooler who lived in the multiracial Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights in the 1940s, made a simple appeal in her school newspaper after Pearl Harbor: “We have a special concern for our loyal American citizens of Japanese descent, who are as truly American as any of us.” Yet, in the wake of the attack by Japanese fighters in Hawaii and the hysteria that followed, Americans of every ethnicity overwhelmingly supported Franklin D.
The Story of Salinas: Not just laborers, immigrants were city builders
The first settlers of Salinas were not all white people and not all men. A diverse collection of individuals came together to build Salinas; the destination for a variety of Europeans of Danish, Portuguese, Jewish, and Swiss Italian descent, all drawn by the multiple opportunities to prosper in agriculture and its related businesses and professions. Chinese Americans reclaimed swampland and carved out habitable space, which led to the political and economic success of the city by the 1880s.
The story of Salinas: How Salinas outpaced Alisal, Castroville
The subdivision of Alisal and the Salinas city center are starkly different spaces, although intimately connected parts of the same city. The Salinas City Center, located just west of Highway 101, looks like the genuine municipality it has been since the late 19th century, teeming with professional offices, upscale restaurants, retail shops and government buildings.
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