Vanishing Vallejo, Random History Notes on a Northern California Town.

A lively collection of historical columns exploring the colorful, quirky, and often dramatic past of shipyard town Vallejo and Solano County.

The columns in this book focus on the colorful and fascinating history of Vallejo, a shipyard town just north of San Francisco. The writing began following the publishing of author Brendan Riley’s book about Vallejo’s infamous sailor district, Lower Georgia Street: California’s Forgotten Barbary Coast. In the course of writing the book, he amassed a sm...