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Gold Fever Tom Massie made me do it...DON'T TELL With pictures
So I guess I have a secret.... Tom Massie was one of my boyhood heroes......and even now I guess I don't dislike him all that much. I got hooked onthe American West for two reasons 1. I'm an amercan male ...Duh! and two growing up 1977 to 1992ish My granpa was a lead electrician at Knotts Berry Farm and my dad worked there for a while too. I was there A LOT and the Ghost Town was my absolute favorite place...back then it was totally different then it is now. More like a museum of things awesome and western plus i had backstage access. I had an interest in mines when i was young and probablly panned my first time there when i was like five. Then in 4th grade like 1986 some off the GPAA from the home chapter in Temecula, Ca. came up a young Tom and others and a bunch of gear came to my school near Perris. Showed us how Hibankers worked we panned and they told us there was gold in the hills near us, The Good Hope Pinnacatte Districts, and in Gavillan Hills wich was our stomping grounds. From sixth grade on we made regular "prospecting" trips to those hills and more so when we could drive.It is surprising the artifacts and mining evidence that was still there...and sadly now just 20+ years later most of it is gone there is BLM down there though(or was maybe swapped now) anyways GPAA is wahat gave me the fever way back then and i will now share some pictures of some of the materials i have collected over the years to help me try and calm that fever enjoy.....and sorry for coming of kinda negative to a few of the fellas recently..
So I guess I have a secret.... Tom Massie was one of my boyhood heroes......and even now I guess I don't dislike him all that much. I got hooked onthe American West for two reasons 1. I'm an amercan male ...Duh! and two growing up 1977 to 1992ish My granpa was a lead electrician at Knotts Berry Farm and my dad worked there for a while too. I was there A LOT and the Ghost Town was my absolute favorite place...back then it was totally different then it is now. More like a museum of things awesome and western plus i had backstage access. I had an interest in mines when i was young and probablly panned my first time there when i was like five. Then in 4th grade like 1986 some off the GPAA from the home chapter in Temecula, Ca. came up a young Tom and others and a bunch of gear came to my school near Perris. Showed us how Hibankers worked we panned and they told us there was gold in the hills near us, The Good Hope Pinnacatte Districts, and in Gavillan Hills wich was our stomping grounds. From sixth grade on we made regular "prospecting" trips to those hills and more so when we could drive.It is surprising the artifacts and mining evidence that was still there...and sadly now just 20+ years later most of it is gone there is BLM down there though(or was maybe swapped now) anyways GPAA is wahat gave me the fever way back then and i will now share some pictures of some of the materials i have collected over the years to help me try and calm that fever enjoy.....and sorry for coming of kinda negative to a few of the fellas recently..
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