(rshsdepot) Santa Paula, CA

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Here's a rather unusual use for a train station...a bit like the train  
station in Plains, Georgia.
 
If you watch the television show, The West Wing, you know much of this  
year's plot revolves around a fictional campaign for president between  Republican 
senator Arnold Vinick and Texas congressman Matt Santos.  Vinick  is portrayed 
as being from a citrus-growing region in California.  Santa  Paula, which 
calls itself the "Citrus Capital of the World," decided it must be  his home and 
lobbied for the designation.
 
Now, getting to the station.  In April 2005 the town setup its  historic 
train station as the Vinick campaign headquarters.  If you go to  
_http://www.ci.santa-paula.ca.us/vinick/index.htm_ 
(http://www.ci.santa-paula.ca.us/vinick/index.htm)  (http://www.ci.santa-paula.ca.us/vinick/hq.htm)  you'll see some  
photos of the station and learn a little more behind the story.
 
Bernie Wagenblast
 
 
Transportation Communications Newsletter
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications/_ 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications/) 



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