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    Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, in the Monterey Bay Area of the Central Coast of California. The population was 52,590 at the...
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  • The Watsonville riots was a period of racial violence that took place in Watsonville, California, from January 19 to 23, 1930. Involving violent assaults...
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    Watsonville Municipal Airport (IATA: WVI, ICAO: KWVI, FAA LID: WVI) is three miles (5 km) northwest of Watsonville, in Santa Cruz County, California, United...
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    Charley Parkhurst (category People of the California Gold Rush)
    stagecoach business, Parkhurst retired from driving some years later to Watsonville, California. For fifteen years he worked at farming and lumbering in the winter...
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    California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 270,861. The county seat is Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz County comprises the Santa Cruz–Watsonville,...
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    Martinelli's (category Watsonville, California)
    non-alcoholic cider and juice company founded in 1868 and located in Watsonville, California. The company is privately held by descendants of the founders....
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    Matt Mahan (category People from Watsonville, California)
    engagement. Mahan was raised in Watsonville, California. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, where his uncle, California real estate developer Ed Thrift...
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    Driscoll's (category Watsonville, California)
    the world's largest berry company as of 2024. Headquartered in Watsonville, California, Driscoll's develops proprietary breeds of berries and then licenses...
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    Watsonville Airport was an airport in Watsonville, California, United States. It was used during World War II for antisubmarine blimps in the defense...
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  • Francisco Bay Area in California. Some locations used were Aptos High School in Aptos, California, Downtown Watsonville, California, the Santa Cruz Beach...
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    Pajaro River (category Rivers of Santa Clara County, California)
    empties into Monterey Bay, west of Watsonville, California. The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolà expedition, camped...
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    Gary Goldman (category People from Watsonville, California)
    Bluth Studios with Bluth. Goldman was born in Oakland, California and raised in Watsonville, California. As a youth, Goldman was active in sports, an infielder...
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    W. H. Weeks (category People from Watsonville, California)
    architectural styles earlier in his career. His first office was in Watsonville, California, but later offices were in various parts of the San Francisco Bay...
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  • Watsonville: Some Place Not Here is a three-act 1996 play by Cherríe Moraga. It depicts a cannery strike in Watsonville, California. Watsonville and the...
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  • Orion Telescopes & Binoculars (category 1975 establishments in California)
    birdwatching. It was founded in 1975 and had corporate offices in Watsonville, California. A large proportion of its products were manufactured by the Chinese...
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  • Killer Klowns from Outer Space (category Films shot in California)
    use as sustenance. Killer Klowns from Outer Space was filmed in Watsonville, California and at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The film utilizes practical...
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    1875 in Watsonville, California, Lee was a son of Chinese immigrants. Lee's parents had started a laundry and grocery business in Watsonville, but they...
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  • 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike was a labor strike that involved over 1,000 workers at two food processing facilities in Watsonville, California, United...
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    Redman Hirahara Farmstead (category Watsonville, California)
    Weeks (1897) and a vernacular barn in the Pajaro Valley, south of Watsonville, California. A Japanese American owned farm which was maintained by local citizens...
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    Eric Temple Bell (category People from Watsonville, California)
    the American Philosophical Society in 1937. He died in 1960 in Watsonville, California. During the early 1920s, Bell wrote several long poems. He also...
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    professional webcomic creators. Kurtz was born to a Catholic household in Watsonville, California. He attended the University of North Texas where he created and...
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  • Donald Barnhouse (category People from Watsonville, California)
    intelligent and learned man." Barnhouse was born March 28, 1895, in Watsonville, California. His parents were Theodore and Jennie Carmichael Barnhouse. After...
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  • Betty Bagby Lewis (category People from Watsonville, California)
    and newspaper columnist based in Watsonville, California. Bagby was born in Fresno and raised in Santa Cruz, California. Her father was a banker. She attended...
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  • Joel Fabiani (category People from Watsonville, California)
    As the World Turns, and All My Children. Fabiani was born in Watsonville, California, as the youngest of three children to parents whose backgrounds...
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  • Art Bell (category People from Watsonville, California)
    2000 named "Daniel Murray" claimed he was a Majestic Agent from Downey, California.[citation needed] This call served as the inspiration for the alternate...
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  • Pajaro/Watsonville is a proposed train station that will serve both Pajaro and Watsonville, California. The station is expected to open after track improvements...
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  • Meade Instruments (category Retail companies based in California)
    to Meade) is an American multinational company headquartered in Watsonville, California, that manufactures, imports, and distributes telescopes, binoculars...
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  • Granite Construction (category Watsonville, California)
    aggregate producer, a member of the S&P 600 Index based and founded in Watsonville, California, and is the parent corporation of Granite Construction Company...
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  • Marv Marinovich (category People from Watsonville, California)
    extended family on a three-thousand-acre (12 km²) ranch in Watsonville, in northern California. The area was owned by his Croatian grandfather, J. G. Marinovich...
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    Tony Elliott (American football coach) (category People from Watsonville, California)
    portions of his early childhood homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, California with his mother and sister. When he was 9 years old, his mother was killed...
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