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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Airscrew on March 23, 2006, 10:29:29 PM

Title: Pleasanton, California
Post by: Airscrew on March 23, 2006, 10:29:29 PM

Hey any of you leet feter pilots live around Pleasanton Ca?  My boss needs me to go to our head office in Pleasanton (Megapath Networks) to work on a project next week.    I dont know how much time I'll have but maybe we can get liquored up and chase sheep :eek:

Title: Pleasanton, California
Post by: Wolfala on March 23, 2006, 10:43:43 PM

Bunch of us are around Pleasenton. Its where the O-Club shooting club went to drink after the gun range.

Title: Pleasanton, California
Post by: Airscrew on March 24, 2006, 02:12:10 PM

Hi ya Wolfala, can you recommend any good places to eat and drink, sights around there?  any good museums? used book stores?  I'll probably do some searching online tonight,  just figured I get a natives perspective.

Title: Pleasanton, California
Post by: Dinger on March 24, 2006, 02:38:54 PM

Museums? Book Stores? Hehe.

Wineries, Breweries, and Gun Ranges, sure.

Title: Pleasanton, California
Post by: ramzey on March 24, 2006, 07:55:21 PM

hillers in redwood city
uss hornet in alameda
sub in sf

Title: Pleasanton, California
Post by: Airscrew on March 24, 2006, 10:22:51 PM

Thanks Ramzey,  maybe I'll have time to check out the USS Hornet,  thats exactly the kind of musuem I was lookin for.  

and Dinger, yes Used book stores.  I read alot, horror, scifi, detective, history, fiction and non-fiction.  I buy almost all my books used.  I try not to pay full price for books.  I recently bought used, "Fighter, The Worlds Finest Combat Aircraft - 1914 to the Present Day"  written/edited by Jim Winchester.  Published in the UK in 2004, New price was about $40.00.  I paid $10.00

AIRCRAFT VERSUS AIRCRAFT : The Illustrated Story of Fighter Pilot Combat Since 1914 to the Present (hardcover)
by Norman Franks , New price $35.00, I got it used for $7.00

Fork-Tailed Devil, The P-38 by Martin Caidin,  paperback, new $14.00, used $4.00

These books although sold used are in brand new condition.

In just the last two months I've bought about 20 books, a mix of WWII military aviation, tank books and some old scifi for about $40.00 total.

Title: Pleasanton, California
Post by: Dinger on March 25, 2006, 01:38:58 AM

I wasn't laughing at your choice in hobbies, but rather P-town's selection. You're best going in to SF or Berkeley for books.
For a good introduction to the culture of livermore-pleasanton-dublin, I recommend this photo essay (http://photo.ucr.edu/california/projects/suburbia/#).