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This is an outdoor mural on the side of a building in Walnut Grove, California where I grew up. The Walnut Grove Hotel was built in 1918 and destroyed by fire in 1969 after I had long left the area. I was sad to hear that news. This hotel was a fun place. The front of building was general store and later post office, while the back was Public Hall with stage. After the fire of 1969, the hotel was rebuilt and re-named Boon Dox Botel. It now included a large boat dock. Big ships and large pleasure craft sailed up the river from the Bay Area. The Boon Dox was the place to be.

While I lived there as a teenager, the hotel was semi-functioning. Several hotel guest rooms were available but not all. The bar/lounge and restaurant were doing business. Downstairs in the back we a large hall where many parties and other functions took place. Since those years, there was another fire or the building may have been condemned. It has since been torn down and nothing replaces it.

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Mary Deal, a native of Walnut Grove, in California's Sacramento River Delta, is an oil painter and photographer. Though she now lives in Winterville, North Carolina, she previously lived in the islands of Hawaii, where she recently spent 22 years. Her photography and art will continue to focus on the Islands that she loves, offering spectacular photography venues, with an endless number of images to come. Mary is also an Amazon international bestselling, award-winning author with six published suspense/thrillers, a romance, a collection of short stories and flash fiction, a writer's reference, and self-help nonfiction. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, former newspaper columnist, and Associate and Contributing Editor of a magazine. Learn...