His first photography projects during the 1970s, explored changing Asian communities in California; Chinatown, San Francisco, Sacramento Chinese families, and the Japanese truck farms and shops around Sawtelle Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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The word'truck'in Truck farms does not refer to the transportation truck, which is derived from Latin for wheel, but rather from the old north French word troquer which mean barter or exchange.
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When not in school, she enjoyed wandering the woods and fields around her home and picking beans for 25?a basket for Mr . King, who owned the truck farm behind her house.
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Some farms may not use the word at all, hence vineyard ( grapes ), orchard ( nuts and other fruit ), market garden or " truck farm " ( vegetables and flowers ).
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"Best of all was the dam ( Sepulveda Basin ), a 10-minute walk for us, and it was our ` out back .'It was all pasture and truck farms then, acres and acres of nothing.
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But by the 1920s, developers subdivided the truck farms and other larger properties into smaller lots, onto which were built many " bungalow "-style homes that were within easy walking distance of the extended streetcar line.
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San Antonio, Texas became home to several Belgian farmers who arrived in the late 1800s and established truck farms on the southwest edge of the city and brought their crops to the city markets for sale.
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One of the largest grasslands in the Northeast, he said, was the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, which supported a rich community of grassland birds until it was subdivided or plowed for truck farms after World War II.
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The Smith family occupied the previously vacant ranch from 1906, calling it " Spring Hill Ranch . " The Smiths expanded the ranch and operated a truck farm, expanding the farm house and building the bunkhouse and school house.
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It's the type of stuff the descendants of Ernest Guebelle sold at their Cider Hill roadside stand until the tourist trade began to pick up after World War II and truck farm operations were replaced by motels and restaurants.
