Image from the National Register of Historic Places of the Bank of Pinole.
The settlement of Pinole boomed after 1878 when the area was a staging point for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The Bank of Pinole is a mute reminder of those days.
Are you happy with living in a suburb or do you wish the town was at the center of another boom? And what would it be?
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