A 1939 aerial view from Google Earth shows that area in the photo below.Īs San Pablo's population began to grow, some of the farms were sold and subdivided and replaced by housing tracts. Another large empty field, where the Contra Costa Junior College complex would be built, was once used as an airfield in the 1920s. The sugar beet farm I'm referring to was owned by the Aguiar brothers, Frank and Antonio Aguiar, who planted acres of sugar beets on their property along San Pablo Creek above Road 20. Hard to imagine a plane landing next to that 7-11 and Pizza Hut today! That was Dexter’s Filling Station at the corner of San Pablo Avenue and Broadway where pilots used to taxi up to Dexter’s for a refill after landing on a nearby sugar beet farm. It all started with an unassuming vintage photo of an aeroplane at a filling station that was once located on the site of today's 7-11 in San Pablo, off Broadway Avenue near Rumrill Blvd.
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