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This is Sutter County Courthouse as it was in 1900 before all those palm trees got huge. That’s right, back when the world was orange. Now you can’t hardly see it from the street view, but it’s still there. If you look the other way, it’s about 500 feet from the tumultuous Feather River, which they put up a large levee to keep from overflowing, so I’m painting it in a really bad year, but maybe not as bad a year as the disaster year of 1955 (documentary with photos ) . This is beautiful Yuba City, and if you’re wondering what a ‘yuba’ is, it’s spanglermaniss (see? fun new portmanteau for xander’s californio relatives ) for ‘uva’, which means grapes, and John Sutter was all about forts and skivvering gold but it was another guy who took his name for the famous Napa winery Sutter Home. Yuba City is the county seat, and the courthouse was completed in 1900 after two previous courthouses which had mysteriously and not-so-mysteriously burned down in 1858 and 1871.

I’ve always been interested in the history of the establishment of a court in this wild gold rush territory of California anyways, and there’s a good article at the California Supreme court historical society how we got from alcaldes taxing zorro’s weight in gold every day to the 9th circus. It’s an interesting read, and I do have to point out, California’s first chief justice had excellent excellent hair. Look at those soft flaxen waves. If I’m not mistaken, he was basically Wolverine when he was younger, and then went to the Xander-do plus a huge ‘stache when he got gray . Good hair. What is it with all these old hot california daguerrotypes ey? Look at anyone on the California Supreme Court today (Josh Groban is on the california supreme court?) and tell me Serranus Clinton Hastings wasn’t a smoldering serrano chili pepper in comparison.

I don’t know what this has to do with comics .

Description
This is Sutter County Courthouse as it was in 1900 before all those palm trees got huge. That’s right, back when the world was orange. Now you can’t hardly see it from the street view, but it’s still there. If you look the other way, it’s about 500 feet from the tumultuous Feather River, which they put up a large levee to keep from overflowing, so I’m painting it in a really bad year, but maybe not as bad a year as the disaster year of 1955 (documentary with photos ) . This is beautiful Yuba City, and if you’re wondering what a ‘yuba’ is, it’s spanglermaniss (see? fun new portmanteau for xander’s californio relatives ) for ‘uva’, which means grapes, and John Sutter was all about forts and skivvering gold but it was another guy who took his name for the famous Napa winery Sutter Home. Yuba City is the county seat, and the courthouse was completed in 1900 after two previous courthouses which had mysteriously and not-so-mysteriously burned down in 1858 and 1871.

I’ve always been interested in the history of the establishment of a court in this wild gold rush territory of California anyways, and there’s a good article at the California Supreme court historical society how we got from alcaldes taxing zorro’s weight in gold every day to the 9th circus. It’s an interesting read, and I do have to point out, California’s first chief justice had excellent excellent hair. Look at those soft flaxen waves. If I’m not mistaken, he was basically Wolverine when he was younger, and then went to the Xander-do plus a huge ‘stache when he got gray . Good hair. What is it with all these old hot california daguerrotypes ey? Look at anyone on the California Supreme Court today (Josh Groban is on the california supreme court?) and tell me Serranus Clinton Hastings wasn’t a smoldering serrano chili pepper in comparison.

I don’t know what this has to do with comics .