X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Salinas


Doug Chandler

John Douglas Chandler (born September 27, 1965 in Salinas, California) is a professional motorcycle racer.

Here's Where I Belong

Based on John Steinbeck's classic novel East of Eden, the allegorical tale centers on the Trasks and the Hamiltons, two families drawn to the rich farmlands of Salinas, California in the early 20th Century.

Jim Vanderzwaan

Jim Vanderzwaan is a television meteorologist who works in Salinas, California.

Marie D. Kassing

Marie D. Kassing is one of the founders of the Women's Crisis Center in Salinas, California, a founder of the National Organization for Women in Monterey, CA and has won the 1995 Outstanding Woman Honoree award in Monterey County, California.

Max Wagner

When he was 10 years old, his father was killed by rebels and the family moved to Salinas, California, where he met John Steinbeck, who became a lifelong friend.

Roberto José Elias

Eight years after competing in his first Olympics, Elias qualified for his third Mexican team, as a 31-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by obtaining a gold medal in the air rifle from the 2005 Championships of the Americas in Salinas, California.

Spreckels Sugar Company

He founded the company town of Spreckels, California, just south of the city of Salinas, California, in 1897, but his descendants began to relinquish control when they started selling homes in the community to the public c.


Adelio Salinas

Adelio Rubén Salinas Vallejos (born April 18, 1968 in Ayala, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer currently played for clubes of Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Indonesia.

Angela Salinas

In 1986, Salinas assumed command of Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Maintenance Battalion until 1987, when she became the deputy G-1, 1st Force Service Support Group, both at Camp Pendleton.

From 2004 to 2006, Salinas served as Chief of Staff, Marine Corps Recruiting Command at Quantico.

Anne B. Fisher

Her two most significant works were her novel Cathedral in the Sun (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, The Salinas: Upside Down River (1945).

Antigua, Fuerteventura

Salinas de El Carmen: The origin of these salt mines dates back to 1800

Antonio Salinas y Castañeda

His father, Anselmo Manuel de Salinas Varona y Céspedes, born in Espinosa de Los Monteros (Spain), was a coronel of the Spanish Army and bought the estates of the Augustinians in the Huaura Valley of the Sayán District, 100 miles north of Lima, including the important Andahuasi Estate.

Atascadero, California

US-101 runs in a North-South direction and bisects the city (along with the Salinas River), into the western and eastern portions of the city.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

On December 6, 2004, Salinas's youngest brother, Enrique, was found dead in Huixquilucan, Estado de México, inside his car with a plastic bag strapped around his head.

Casas Grandes

Ruins similar to those of Casas Grandes exist near Gila and Salinas in New Mexico, and in Colorado.

Dante Quinterno

Other books followed: "Libro de Oro de Patoruzú"(1937,annual comic book), Dinamica Rural"(1950,agricultural magazine),"Pepín Cascarón(1960), Patoruzito (1945, with the collaboration of Eduardo Ferro, José Luis Salinas and Alberto Breccia), Andanzas de Patoruzú (1956), Correrías de Patoruzito (1958) and Locuras de Isidoro (1968).

Dennis Salinas

Dennis Fernando Salinas Bermúdez (born 23 July 1986 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Controversially, Salinas (who was the starting goalkeeper) was subbed out after only 34 minutes for Juan José Gómez.

Emiliano Salinas

Emiliano Salinas is the son of former Mexican president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari and wife Cecilia Occelli.

Grupo Salinas

Grupo Salinas started as a retail store, but since Ricardo Salinas Pliego, its current President took over the company, Grupo Salinas began to diversify.

Ignacio Elizondo

Francisco Ignacio Elizondo Villarreal, (Salinas Valley, New Kingdom of León, New Spain, March 9, 1766 - San Marcos, Texas, New Spain, September 2, 1813), was a New Leonese royalist general, mostly known for his victorious plot to seek to capture important insurgency precursors of the Mexican War of Independence such as Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, and Juan Aldama in Baján, Coahuila in 1811.

Iván Castillo

Iván Sabino Castillo Salinas (born July 11, 1970 in Coripata, La Paz) is a retired football defender from Bolivia, who played at club level for Bolívar, The Strongest and La Paz F.C. in Bolivia.

J.C. Barthel

He made an application to the city of Santa Monica in July 1922 for lease on a plot of land next to the "new government aviation field on Central Avenue" to establish "an aerial passenger service to San Francisco, by way of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Salinas."

John Noble Goodwin

The mining district near Fort Whipple was seen first, followed by the areas around the Verde and Salinas rivers.

José M. Dávila Monsanto

The government of Puerto Rico named the highway that extends from PR-54 (Puerto Rico Highway 54), in Guayama, to PR-52, in Salinas the Autopista José M. Dávila Monsanto (the José M. Dávila Monsanto Highway).

Katherine R. Whitmore

Salinas' love letters to Whitmore from 1932 to 1947, kept at Houghton Library in Harvard University, were published in 2002 as Cartas a Katherine. Whitmore was specialized in Generation of '27 literature, which means she had to teach the poetry written for her to her students.

KMZT

KMZT-FM, a radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to serve Salinas, California

KPRC

KPRC-FM, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to Salinas, California, United States

KYZZ

KMZT-FM, a radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to serve Salinas, California, which held the call sign KYZZ from 2006 to 2013

Levittown, Puerto Rico

It is a scenic route that provides a nice coastal view in which Punta Salinas' radar domes and El Morro can be seen.

Luis Donaldo Colosio

In the early years of Salinas's presidency, Colosio served as the chairman of their party's National Executive Committee.

MCL Mapúa-PTC College of Maritime Education and Training

At the ceremonial launching, MCL was represented by Dr. Reynaldo B. Vea, president of Malayan Colleges Laguna and Mapua Institute of Technology, and PTC by Mr. Carlos C. Salinas, its chairman and chief executive officer.

Moises Salinas

Salinas first came to Israel in 1984-5 when he attended the Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz, the Institute for Youth Leaders Abroad in Jerusalem, which was a program in Zionist leadership and education.

Ovila Cayer

He eventually settled in Salinas, where he was a foreman at Spence Ranch (later owned by Spreckels Sugar Company) and operated a cigar store.

Pablo Salinas

Pablo Antonio Salinas Menacho (born 7 August 1979 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football forward who currently plays for Club Blooming.

Salinas made his debut for the Bolivian national team on 15 November 2006 in a friendly match against El Salvador (5-1), as a substitute for goal scorer Nelson Sossa.

Pamela Wu

Prior to joining KCRA 3, Wu worked as anchor and reporter at stations across Northern California, including KVIQ in Eureka, KION in Salinas/Monterey, and the KCRA 3 sister station in Salinas/Monterey, KSBW.

Paullu Inca

Paullu also took part in the battle of Salinas at the head of 6,000 Incas, and in 1539 he accompanied Gonzalo Pizarro in the war against the Incas of Charcas.

Puerto Rico Highway 53

It will connect the cities of Fajardo, Ceiba, Naguabo, Humacao, Yabucoa, Maunabo, Patillas, Arroyo, Guayama and Salinas, thus bordering the entire eastern and southeastern coasts of Puerto Rico.

Pulong Buhangin National High School

Michelle Salinas won third in radio broadcasting group contest at the S.Y. 2006-2007 National Schools Press Conference held at Baguio City, just a year after Francisco Bautista won a championship title in the same contest.

Ralph Goings

After he served in the military, he enrolled in Hartnell College, in Salinas, California and was approached and encouraged to attend art school by Leon Amyx, who was the head of the art department at Hartnell at that time and a well known painter.

Raul G. Salinas

A native of Alice, the seat of Jim Wells County east of Laredo, Salinas is a graduate of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland.

Raúl Salinas de Gortari

On December 6, 2004, Enrique Salinas de Gortari, the brother of Raúl Salinas de Gortari, was found dead in his car after apparently having been beaten and strangled.

Richard Adrián Salinas

Richard Adrián Salinas Benítez (born 6 February 1988 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan footballer, he plays for Club Olimpia.

Salinan

The Salinan people were named after the Salinas River by Robert Latham (needs documentation)(1856) and John Powell (1891).

Salinas de Garci Mendoza

Salinas de Garci Mendoza is endpoint of the road from Chuquichamba via Andamarca and Aroma to Salinas de Garci Mendoza.

Salinas Municipal Airport

Initially, IV Air Support Command used Salinas as a training base for photo-reconnaissance units.

Sharon Tay

In 1993, KCCN-TV, now KION in Salinas, California, hired her as a general assignment reporter / consumer investigative reporter.

Shea Salinas

After attending Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas, Salinas played college soccer at Furman University, where he was named to the NSCAA All-America Third Team and the NSCAA All-South Region First Team in 2007, and the NSCAA All-South Region Third Team in 2006, as well as receiving First Team All Southern Conference honors in both 2007 and 2006.

Robert O'Shea "Shea" Salinas (born June 24, 1986 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American soccer player who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.

Watsonville Riots

In September 4, 2011, California apologized to Filipinos and Filipino Americans in an Assembly resolution authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas.


see also