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had cher-
ries...thank goodness! Of course it was different then. They parked some 50 feet from Old Faithful Geyser.
(Fact: you
Did know
Yellowstone contains
approximate- ly one-half of the world’s hydrother-
mal features. There are over 10,000 hydro- thermal features, including over 300 geysers, in the park.) Dee tells me of how they had to sleep in the cab of the old truck(he'll never forget it) and had to sleep on the floor around the gear shift, listening to the geysers all night long and how cold it was. Andy got the seat of course, being the older of the two. The next day, they were all set on selling the
cherries...and they
did...all of them; over 300-25lb. boxes in all and made quite a bit of profit. They sold the cher- ries for 10x what they would of made back in their home town. Dee tells me it was one of the funnest times he had back then.
The Skikos knew most of the produce, oranges, other fruit came from California and a lot of it year round. That's when Andy decided to come to California in the sixties.
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Andy who had a family by now realized he couldn't sup- port them in Ogden because of the seasons, so he packed up by himself and moved to San Diego, then San Francisco and moved even further north to Santa Rosa, all along wanting to start his own fruit stand. He ended up getting a job in Santa Rosa at a produce market and returned to Utah and brought his family out. Younger brother Dee came out two years later to join his brother who also had a family. Andy had found a piece of property with a small success- ful fruit stand in Sebastopol with a lease option to buy, which he did. And Andy had five kids, so he had to suc- ceed. Dee tells Upbeat that in the old days, fruit stands/ markets mainly sold fruit & veggies, bread and other basic items. But now they have to sell all kinds of products to make it happen. As a young kid in the 60's growing up in
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Sebastopol, my parents would frequently shop at Andy's(we called it that then) and it was always great and had such a friendly down-home atmo- sphere.
At one time Andy's had five
markets but it got to be too much for the family, so they sold them all and focused on the Sebastopol location. Here we are in 2012
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Valley Ford, CA. ~ Valley Ford Cheese Co., owned and operated by Karen Bianchi Moreda and her son Joe Moreda, took best of show honors for its Fontina in the cheese
competition at
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