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BigView – The 1950s A Decade Full of Optimism

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A Decade of Optimism, Growth, and Prosperity By Ken White Let’s rewind to a valley not so far away, not ...

BigView – The 1950s

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The BigView by Chris Murphy There is really nothing like the sound of a hot rod motor, the squeal of ...

MAMAView – New Local Music

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MAMAView – New Music By Chris Murphy TieHead – Bounce So excited to have new music out in our community. ...

FoodView – Velvet Grill and Creamery

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FoodView By Chris Murphy Classic Fresh Tastes for All There is really nothing that goes with classic cars, cruising and ...

Virtual Graffiti Summer 2020

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It’s Virtually Graffiti Summer! By Chris Murphy @modestochris So much has changed in the last few months and things continue ...

Greetings – Virtual Graffiti Summer

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Greetings friends, Well what a long strange trip it’s been. As I write this, the hair salons have just opened, ...

ModestoView is Back in Downtown

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Go Downtown Modesto ModestoView is back downtown! Once again, we are partnered up with our friend John Black and ModestoView ...

BigView – Modesto in the 1940s

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The BigView The 1940s were a decade of change in Modesto USA. As the depression of the 1930s slowly changed ...

BigView – Late 1940s Modesto – The Birth Of Cruising

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The Birth of Cruising By Chris Murphy During World War II, gas was rationed, rubber was rationed, food was rationed, ...

FoodView: Delicious and Deliverable

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FoodView By Chris Murphy I love Grab N Go and hope you do too. ModestoView has been out there doing ...

1940s Modesto Time Line

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1940s Timeline 1940 Modesto population is 16,379. 1941 The attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 pushes the United States ...

BigView The 1930s

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The BigView The great depression, prohibition and the worst of times. These were some of the keys that would later ...

Earth Day InterView – Vicki Rice

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InterView Vicki Rice – Recycling is What We Do By Chris Murphy The City of Modesto has so many functions. ...

1937 – The Birth of Rockabilly

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Modesto’s Rockabilly Roots put the “Rock” in the Roll By Chris Murphy In 1937, the first notes of Rock and ...

Roots of Rock Legends

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By Chris Murphy Rockabilly is undoubtedly the most exciting, artistic, and raw form of early rock and roll today. Initially, ...