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Page 1 of 3 <br /> Recordnet:corn t t A f <br /> 'l The Best Addmsses in Town <br /> Y Jerry Abbott - President <br /> "I sea <br /> A. Nom" <br /> HOME I NEWS I MONEY I TECHNOLOGY I SPORTS I LIFESTYLE CLASSIFIED I CARS I JOBS I REAL ESTATE I SI <br /> Stockton, C C <br /> *Local News At the end of the rainbow Friday, Sept <br /> *Na_tonal News <br /> *Lodi Lode ' <br /> *in school Storekeeper guards history of Delta's tiny Terminous <br /> *Tracy Metro 5 Day Fo <br /> *Opinion By Joe Tone <br /> *Crime Stoppers Record Staff Writer <br /> *Columnists Published Saturday,July 31,2004 <br /> .Obituaries T Day News <br /> *Weather " y, _.„ TERMINOUS —Aman named Charlie holds on to <br /> the last bit of this tiny Delta town's old charm, and t <br /> . Hoods n Hamlets 4 .; no matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to let <br /> ._What's Here_ Ga. Stocks <br /> go. <br /> Supplies for I <br /> *Money-News <br /> _ u - <br /> He is Charlie Jacobs. He is 62, and he owns the <br /> .Business Journal Florida Prel <br /> *AP Money_W re (Terminous Market, a rickety rectangle that looks as if it washed ashore <br /> *Stock_Market <br /> from the Delta, beef jerky and Budweiser already in stock. Hurricane 1 <br /> *Money Columnists <br /> .Calendars Jacobs wants badly to catch his store up with the rest of Terminous, Lates_t_Deve_lo <br /> which in the past century has evolved from a working-class agriculture Hurricane i <br /> town into a playground for boaters and a quiet place for people to retire. <br /> .Technology News <br /> I•- He wants to use his property to rent storage spaces to boaters, spots End to Snown <br /> where tattooed wake boarders and barefoot skiers can stash their boats in Parks f <br /> INNS 2OD'4_ when they're stuck on land. <br /> s Sports News Pa. Settles_' <br /> *Local_Sports But money is tight, and the bureaucratic hoops to jump through are many, Misconduc, <br /> .Outdoors so the general store stays just that. 6 , <br /> *PrepSports Marine GI <br /> .Sports Calendar <br /> *Soorts Extra Jacobs' store is what you see just after you pass the Terminous sign — Abusing Iraqi <br /> .Fantasy_ ll FootbaPopulation 250 -- motoring west on Highway 12 toward the Pacific <br /> Ocean. You might step into the market for a snack in the middle of a Vignettes AI_o <br /> *Toda_y <br /> journey to somewhere more beautiful. Hurricane <br /> *Timeout <br /> .Reviews But many years ago, before even Charlie Jacobs, Terminous stood as -C.on.victedM <br /> *Youthink the end of the line and nothing more. Captured Aft <br /> �Today.Moves Calendar That was in the late <br /> 1890s. John Daugherty, who owned a different Soldier Guilty <br /> *TV general store in town, helped build a gravel road from Lodi to Little Potato toAid_al- <br /> *Celebrations Slough, an arm of the Delta. There was no bridge to Fairfield, no highway <br /> *Weddings to Napa. Washington S <br /> *Engagements Oldest Col <br /> *Anniversaries Back then, says outdoors writer Hal Schell, a well-respected Delta <br /> *Good Taste in S.J. historian, "It was just sort of a terminus." Floridians Fle <br /> Vintage Lifestyles E'scane F <br /> *Travel News- Around 1895, Dougherty asked the government to establish a post office <br /> *Health News in the then-unnamed community, which at the time was a hub for celery' Ala.Dc <br /> *Parenting exporters. He asked the U.S. Postal Service to name the town - <br /> P Ala.-Dc. <br /> http://www.recordnet.com/articielink/073104/news/articles/073104-gn-5.php 9/3/2004 <br />