Preface to the Revised Edition

Nine years have passed since the first edi- decade, but all warrant attention not previ- tion of this book was published. During that ously granted. Others that antedate 1978 but time the number of people in California has that are also new to the book include sub- increased by about four million, a growth jects as diverse as Scientology, Koreans in approximately equal to the total population California, and the Bay to Breakers footrace of Minnesota. Such a sizable increase has in- through . evitably been accompanied by or has caused These numerous additions have been substantial changes in the state. Those years complemented by an even greater number have also been marked by numerous signifi- of entries that have undergone revision. The cant events having nothing to do with the revision is so thorough that, for example, scale of the state. They include, for example, only fourteen of the first one hundred pages the election of another Californian to the do not incorporate changes. Inevitably, presidency of the . Such mat- many have merely been brought up to date ters are indicative of the need for a new edi- by changes documenting such matters as in- tion of this book, which attempts to provide creases in production or population. But be- a ready reference to all major matters about yond them are the 191 entries whose infor- California from its earliest days to the mation or treatment has been emended in present time. important ways that make them different Thus it is that this new edition contains from the treatment in the 1978 edition. nearly two hundred entries on subjects not heretofore chronicled. They range alphabeti- cally from Altamont Pass, site of the state's major source of energy from windpower, to J.D.H. Zinfandel, a widely planted red wine grape. As the latter makes evident, not all the sub- Berkeley, California jects are new to California during the past January 1987

ix

Sonoma

Drakes Bay

Fairfax San Pablo Bay Mare

Stinson Beach Islam

MUa WOODS NATION A¿ I San Quentin . V Richmpqd-San Rafael

iburon Suisun Bay r ^ Angel * Presidio} Island Treasure Berkeley San Francisco ) Island • .U*

Walnut Creek Alamedi

i Francisco »rnational Airport

jborough i Mateo

Half Moon; Hayjyard Bay V

Menlo

10 miles Stanfoìttl University •