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4 unusual facts about Pleasanton


Alfred Pleasonton

The city of Pleasanton, Kansas, despite its different spelling, has begun an annual festival named for Pleasonton.

Amador Pavilion

The Amador Pavilion is a multi-purpose arena on the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California.

Ben Lilly

He died at eighty, on December 17, 1936, on a ranch in Pleasanton, near Silver City, New Mexico and is buried in the historic Memory Lane Cemetery in Silver City.

Calvin Company

It was the child of Forrest ("F. O.") Calvin, a kid from Pleasanton, Kansas, who studied journalism and advertising at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s.


B. Kwaku Duren

On September 20, 1975, while on her way to the Monterey Jazz Festival, Betty Scott and her partner, George Smith, were pulled over at 4 a.m. in Pleasanton, California, near Oakland, reportedly for a speeding violation.

Battle of Westport

Two other Confederate divisions, under Shelby and James Fagan, were poised to assault Blunt along Brush Creek the next day, hoping to defeat him before Pleasanton could arrive on the field in force.

David A. Robinson

Taryn's flight instructor, James L. Weaver, age 64, was flying the Diamond Aircraft Industries DA20-C1, single-engine airplane, N63PA, when it clipped two high-tension power cables while simulating engine failure near Pleasanton, Texas.

Fitness trail

There are two parcourse trails in Pleasanton; one borders the northern side of Bernal Corporate Park, paralleling the Arroyo del Valle, and the second is on the Owens Drive loop west of Johnson Drive.

Thoratec

Thoratec is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, and has manufacturing facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts;Rancho Cordova, California; Edison, New Jersey; and Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.


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