Grand Opening

Hi Everybody:

I just sent out an e-mail to 35 or so folks who have helped with the book, and yesterday 35 postcards went out to people who are not online. All to call attention to the website and the book. It's not exactly the Grand Opening of the West Side Food Center in October 1941, but for me it's a big deal.

I hope you like the website. Beverly Wolf of WolfonWeb has done fantastic work on it, I think. I hope you like the book too. It's about the best I am capable of doing with the resources at hand. I know you will find mistakes and some topics under-represented. We can deal with some of those on the website, and others perhaps in a second edition.

Thank you to all of you for your memories and your patience. Here's an example. Lucille Honda already talked to the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation bookshop about placing the book there, and they agreed, without even seeing it! It is initiatives like that which make me feel good about this undertaking.

As soon as we have books in hand, we'll open up the "Sales" page on the website. The printer assures me that we will have books for October 2 in Lompoc.

Please send us your reactions to the site and to the book. We will post them on the "History of the Book" page. And your suggestions. And your questions. We will have an FAQ space.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.
John