Twilight Zone, Manteca-style: ‘50 First Dates’ on North Main Street

PERSPECTIVE

This view from the top of the IOOF Building (Manteca Bedquarters) in the early 1960s looking to the southeast at Yosemite Avenue and Main Street shows the old Manteca Bean Co. on the horizon, El Rey to the left, and a Chevron/Standard station in the foreground. It was the first intersection in Manteca to have traffic signals installed.

yosemite main 1960s — This view from the top of the IOOF Building (Manteca Bedquarters) in the early 1960s looking to the southeast at Yosemite Avenue and Main Street shows the old Manteca Bean Co. on the horizon, El Rey to the left, and a Chevron/Standard station in the foreground. It was the first intersection in Manteca to have traffic signals installed.

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. Philosopher-novelist George Santayana must have spent some time in Manteca before coining that phrase.

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