Pictured: The Midas Muffler Shop opened in 1960 at 520 York Street in Vallejo, adjacent to the Greyhound Bus Station. The building was originally the repair garage for Greyhound buses. Prior to that, a different building at that location housed the first Vallejo Jewish Synagogue from 1920 to 1947. Initially Midas Muffler only sold and installed mufflers, exhaust and tailpipes, but later expanded to seatbelts and shock absorbers. In the early 1980’s the shop, under new ownership, relocated to 3211 Sonoma Blvd. in Vallejo.
Robert Carston Arneson (1930 – 1992) was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California at Davis who was born in Benicia and died in Benicia. He graduated from Benicia High School and spent much of his early life as a cartoonist for a local paper. Arneson studied at California College of the Arts in Oakland, California for his BFA and went on to receive an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California in 1958. One of his most famous (and controversial) sculptures was a bust of assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. Photo courtesy of Google.
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