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When cattle roamed The Conejo
The valley's dusty past comes alive in Camarillo author's photo-packed book
Eleven books into his long dance with local history, Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt can't seem to step over to the punch bowl for a breather. When you're a fifth-generation descendant of the locally famous Maulhardt and Borchard families, history kind of comes with the territory.
"Conejo Valley," the 11th book by local author-historian Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt, is available through Borders, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and local retailers, including the Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center's gift shop at 215 W. Janss Road in Thousand Oaks (497-2727), Mrs. Figs' Bookworm at 93 E. Daily Drive in Camarillo (482-1384), and the Stagecoach Inn Museum, 51 S. Ventu Park Road in Newbury Park (498-9941).
It's also available through Arcadia Publishing at http://www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665. Suggested price is $21.99.
It and all of Maulhardt's books also can be purchased at Maulhardt's Oxnard office, 961 N. Rice Ave. Call 988-8810.
Maulhardt will sign copies of "Conejo Valley" at 2 p.m. May 2 at the Stagecoach Inn Museum.
To see more photographs from "Conejo Valley," visit http://www.VCStar.com.
Not that Maulhardt minds. He's taught history for 25 years, currently of the eighth-grade variety at Frank Intermediate School in Oxnard. He's trying to preserve the two oldest structures on the Oxnard Plain via his ongoing Oxnard Historic Farm Park project. He's also the guy who in 2003 restaged an exhibition game played in Oxnard in 1913 between the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox that featured such Hall of Famers as Christy Mathewson and Tris Speaker (the subject of Maulhardt's first book, in 1997).
His latest book, released last month and titled "Conejo Valley," shifts his history lens away from Oxnard, Port Hueneme and Camarillo and trains it a bit farther east. His next one will keep it there: Maulhardt is working on a book about Jungleland, the old animal amusement park in Thousand Oaks that closed in the 1970s. It's due out next year, and will make it an even dozen stops on history's local trail.
"I finish one and I feel a little burned out, and then something else comes along," the understated Maulhardt said by way of explaining his regular and prodigious output. "There's some kind of connection in each of the books, so that's where the passion comes from."
"Conejo Valley" is part of the Images of America series from Arcadia Publishing that celebrates the histories of neighborhoods, towns, cities and areas across the country. Maulhardt has done several in the Images of America series, and this marks his seventh book with Arcadia overall.
"I think Ventura County is kind of unique because a lot of the families associated with the early history are still in the county," said Maulhardt, a Camarillo resident who somehow manages to run an insurance company and tend some 50 avocado and lemon trees in addition to teaching and writing.
The old days
"Conejo Valley" clocks in at 127 pages but is largely picture-driven. In fact, after a short introduction it is almost all photographs, though many of the more than 200 vintage black-and-white shots come with extended captions that often function as mini-stories or nuggets of history.
Maulhardt touches briefly on the Chumash (hunting and gathering) and Spanish (adobe days) influence in the area. It was the Spanish who named the valley Conejo, after the rabbits that seemed to flourish there. Their term for triumph, "Triunfo," for a victory they had over the Chumash, came to adorn a creek, a canyon, a post office, a road and, in more recent times, even a sanitation district in the area.
He also traces the arrival of the first pioneering European settlers, among them his families. The first Maulhardts and Borchards came to the area in 1867, and planted the first commercial crop (barley) on the Oxnard Plain. He has an 1872 document showing that the Maulhardts were working for the Borchards, getting paid $1.50 per acre to cut barley by hand.
"It was that work ethic that got them ahead," Maulhardt said. "They were definitely looking for a new start in California, coming from Germany."
The families established Santa Clara Chapel in 1877, in what is now the North Oxnard-El Rio area, near the Esplanade shopping center and Highway 101.
In 1882, the Borchards turned their attention to the Conejo, where land was cheaper because water sources were scarcer. Maulhardt's great-great grandfather, Johannes Borchard, and his brother, Caspar Borchard, bought two 4,000-acre tracts there — today, it's the land on either side of the freeway from the top of the Conejo Grade looking east, though most of it is on the right side running all the way to Old Boney Mountain.
Who: Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt.
Residence: Camarillo.
Day jobs: Teaches eighth-grade U.S. history at Frank Intermediate School in Oxnard. Runs Maulhardt Insurance in Oxnard.
Fun jobs: Author, historian and occasional farmer of 50 avocado and lemon trees.
What's new: Maulhardt's 11th book, "Conejo Valley," was released last month. All 11 have focused on local history. Six focused on Oxnard, two on baseball in the county, one on Port Hueneme, one on Camarillo, and now the Conejo book. His next one, on the Jungleland animal amusement park in Thousand Oaks that closed in the 1970s, is due out next year.
More history: Maulhardt is trying to preserve the two oldest structures on the Oxnard Plain through his Oxnard Historic Farm Park project.
Family: Wife Deborah is also a teacher. They have twin 23-year-old daughters: Alison is a fundraiser for Amnesty International and is on a Peace Corps mission to Africa this summer, and Brooke is a fashion designer for Fox brands clothing. They share an apartment in Pasadena.
On the Net: For more on Maulhardt and his books, visit http://www.jeffmaulhardt.com. For more on his Oxnard Historic Farm Park project, see http://www.oxnardfarmpark.org.
-- Brett Johnson
It's a family affair
Speaking of the Conejo Grade, Maulhardt has pictures of it when it was wilder than its relatively straight but steep freeway trip today, including one of a notorious hairpin known as Horseshoe Bend before the road was straightened, which happened more than once, Maulhardt noted.
The original road had 49 sharp turns and cutbacks, the book notes. In earlier times, farmers had to lock wagon wheels with a chain or tie a tree limb behind the ring and slide down to the bottom of the grade, then often called the short grade.
Among Maulhardt's favorite photos are the ones showing teams of mules and horses hauling hay wagons up what was known as the Lewis or long grade — now roughly the same route traced by Potrero Road. It was the way Conejo farmers used to take harvests to the wharf in Wynema (now Port Hueneme) before a railroad was established in Camarillo in 1902. Many Conejo farmers preferred the Lewis grade to its steeper cousin.
Other shots show family members recreating at Lake Eleanor and Lake Mathiessen around 1905-10. They were taken by family members who bought the simple Brownie cameras Kodak introduced in 1900.
"You can tell that when families got together in those days, they'd put on their Sunday best," Maulhardt said. "They'd go to church, then do some picnicking and boating afterward."
Family members, he said, supplied easily more than half the photos in the book. That work took him to Orange County and Brawley. He'd bring along a laptop and scanner and scan them in. Maulhardt thinks he's been collecting photos for the book for the past 15 years.
"I feel like a kid in the candy store when I come across an old picture," Maulhardt said.
Flipping the pages
Maulhardt includes other families who were part of the Conejo Valley's heritage.
Among those are the Norwegian Colony families who moved to the area in 1890, buying four tracts of land in the north part of the Conejo. Some of that land later became home to California Lutheran College, known as California Lutheran University today, as well as what's called the Norwegian Grade.
He also tells the story of E.P. Foster, perhaps best known today for having his name on a Ventura library. But Foster, Maulhardt noted, got his start in the Conejo Valley. He bought land there in the 1870s and put 10,000 sheep on it during a rainy period, but then a drought hit.
"He lost everything," Maulhardt said, "and walked all the way to Ventura and got a job as a ditch digger, paying him $40 a month. He sent a wagon back for his family. Then he started growing apricots, got involved with a bank and the Union Oil Company, and became one of Ventura's biggest benefactors.
"That's part of the pioneering spirit," Maulhardt continued, "the idea that things aren't always going to go your way. There were more opportunities then, but there were also more hardships. Some people survived them, and some people didn't."
As Maulhardt notes at the end of the introduction, the book is not a definitive history of the area, but it offers a flavor of the early days and trips down memory lane.
The book has photos of cattle and sheep being driven across fields and hills now paved over in streets and strip malls.
It includes a shot of the original Timber School, established in 1888 at what is now the corner of Kelly and Newbury roads, and a stunning aerial shot of a largely empty Lynn Ranch area before development set in during the late 1950s and swathed Thousand Oaks in suburbia.
Actor-humorist Will Rogers is caught trying his hand at roping in a 1930s shot at Borchard Ranch (where he did a few scenes for his last film, "In Old Kentucky"), one of the photos Maulhardt borrowed from the Stagecoach Inn and Conejo Valley Historical Society. The book lists many of the films Hollywood came north and west to shoot.
"It's amazing how many Westerns were filmed in that area over the years," Maulhardt noted.
That's just another piece of local history, a puzzle that fascinates Maulhardt. His books, he said, have led him to the Oxnard Historic Farm Park project. He talked of one day having a research library there, where people can come in, scan in their pictures and tell their stories.
"You can learn a lot from history," Maulhardt said. "They always say history repeats itself, and I think that's true. And it can repeat itself in good ways."
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Over in a not-so-traveled corner of Brooklyn, the Greenwood Heights crowd has wholeheartedly embraced Lot 2, an unassuming spot with bare beams and exposed brick that has changed chefs and, consequently, culinary direction in the sixteen months it's been open. As it turns out, Lot 2 has more in common with Roman's than a neighborly vibe and creative house cocktails. There's the fervent locavore streak that permeates the small, often-changing menu, the reliance on local farms for fresh produce, the short but thoughtful beer and wine lists. (As at DBGB and Vandaag, the brews are listed with their alcohol percentage, a helpful and burgeoning practice.)
The menu, under chef Daniel Rojo, is less nose-to-tail and more comfort-foody than under his predecessor, as evidenced by dishes like a first-rate, perfectly proportioned grass-fed Cheddar burger, lamb spare ribs with parsnip and carrots, and an amply garnished crispy chicken breast. There are equally filling vegetarian options, too, like arborio rice with asparagus, shiitake mushrooms, ginger, serrano chili, scallions, and mint. But the defining feature of Lot 2 (other than the truly stellar duck-fat potatoes that accompany the burger) is the $30 four-course Sunday supper, already a neighborhood tradition. The weekly menu is posted online and the meal is served family style. So you might start, as we did one night, with a heap of arugula, rather aggressively seasoned, mixed with soft-roasted beets and speckled with freshly snipped herbs. Next might come an all-American arrangement of tender pork loin (Heritage, naturally) served with rich brown-butter applesauce and a crisp-edged pan-fried stuffing, flecked with leeks and greens and as soft as custard. Two warm chocolate-chip cookies is the kind of dessert your mom might make. This idealized version of homey Americana won't convey you as far away as Roman's Italy, but it's equally transporting.
Cheddar burger with duck-fat fries, $15; set menu on Sundays


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Global 1, 3-Propanediol (PDO) (Polytrimethylene Terephthalate (PTT), Polyurethane, Personal Care & Detergents) Market – Forecast to 2019
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1,3-propanediol (PDO) is a high value specialty chemical used as a monomer in the synthesis of polyesters, polyurethanes and polyethers. Increasing demand for polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) coupled with growing consumer awareness about bio-based products is expected to drive the global PDO market from 2013 to 2019.
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The study segments the market based on applications of PDO as polytrimethylene terephthalate, polyurethane, personal care and detergents others, and each application is further analyzed according to the regional demand from 2012 to 2019. The major geographical regions considered in the report include North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Rest of the World (RoW).
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