Dudley Orville Philbrick built the original shop with lumber from the Mendocino Lumber Company, traded for his labor.
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McNear: Women’s right to vote provoked heated debate in Mendocino County
Activist Naomi Bowman Anderson was a leading voice in the fight to vote.
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McNear: Mendocino’s local prohibition prompted the opening of Mendosa’s General Merchandise
Frank Mendosa closed his saloon and opened the grocery on Lansing Street that still carries his name.
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McNear: Jensen Albertson’s Time and the Maiden took 7 years to carveÂ
Albertson carved the sculpture from a single redwood log at his cabin in Big River Beach.
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McNear: Finnish immigrant Joseph Granskog began Bay Front Garage, a fixture on Mendocino’s Main Street
War with Russia and the 1919 flu influenza stranded Joseph’s family in Finland.