Belmont

by Cynthia Karpa McCarthy

Book Overview

Midway between San Francisco and San Jos , Belmont is where an Italian count reconstructed his villa transported from Italy, where a silver king created "the White House of the West," and where the Warlocks, a fledgling 1960s rock band, honed the sound they would make famous under another name, the Grateful Dead. Spanish explorers called Belmont's vales "la Ca ada del Diablo," or "the Devil's Canyon," either after the locally famous winds or because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467131350
• ISBN13: 9781467131353
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"