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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious. We start today’s story at Stanford University at the office of archeologist Laura Jones.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>The first big surprise is the sculpture just outside. A half human, half animal figure that she’s storing for an indigenous tribe.Then there’s the colorfully embroidered tapestry of campus landmarks inside… and the 3 dimensional map on her wall…\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Things that don’t quite make the cut for a museum end up here, in Laura Jones’ office. So when a retiring colleague offered her some old Stanford maps from the 1950s, Laura says it was an easy yes.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Jones: \u003c/strong>She shows me this map that’s got all these colored pencil areas on it, where the Stanford shopping center is today, where the Stanford Research Park is today, where our graduate student housing is today, and they’re coded for what flower is being grown.\u003c/p>\n",
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"\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Jones: \u003c/strong>She shows me this map that’s got all these colored pencil areas on it, where the Stanford shopping center is today, where the Stanford Research Park is today, where our graduate student housing is today, and they’re coded for what flower is being grown.\u003c/p>\n"
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Fields and field of flowers blooming, as far as the eye could see.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Jones: \u003c/strong>In black pencil, dark black pencil, are the names of the farmers, and they’re all Chinese and Japanese… \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>For a solid stretch of the 20th century, the Bay Area was home to a burgeoning flower industry, shaped in part by Japanese, Italian, and Chinese farmers.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>In 1948 about 200 acres of chrysanthemums were grown in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Imagine, that’s about 150 football fields!\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Jones:\u003c/strong> If you could imagine, as you go down towards El Camino Real at the shopping center, or where our graduate students live today, you would have seen just fields of flowers.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>KQED reporter Gabriela Glueck met up with Laura to learn more about this history and the contributions of Chinese American growers in particular. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>This story first aired on The California Report Magazine.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>You’re listening to Bay Curious – a podcast produced by listener supported KQED. You can join the hundreds of thousands of members in the Bay Area today but donate at \u003ca href=\"http://donate.kqed.org/podcasts\">donate.kqed.org/podcasts\u003c/a>. We’ve got to take a quick break – when we return The Chinese Growers scale up to meet a tide of demand.\u003c/p>\n",
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