Soap Creek Valley · Place
El Cajon
Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about El Cajon: 1 transcript mention across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.
city No coordinate
- Index references (printed indexes)
- 0
- Transcript mentions
- 1
This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.
Provenance
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Who speaks of it
Dated statements about this place
- 1941 — My uncle, Will Meador in El Cajon, California said his friend and partner was in the Naval Reserve, and was called in to assist the British to operate U.S. destroyers. His ship was the Reuben James. I helped my uncle to run his vegetable and fruit ranch: irrigate, train berry vines, drive a tractor. I made a soil conservation dam
- 1941 — I registered with the Selective Service Board in El Cajon. My uncle decided to sell the ranch. I went to San Diego to find work with an aircraft plant and was employed by Solar Aircraft, running power machines for parts for aircraft.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: El Cajon (place record).
- This page
- Soap Creek Valley: El Cajon. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/el-cajon/
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