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Subject:        Four Doors, CA
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:46:24 -0700
From:   Robert C. Berlo <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello, Tom,

As the author of several books on the history of California places, I
have been contacted to see if I could provide any help locating Four
Doors, California.  I consulted my own works as well as other sources I
have (including Durham's California's Geographic Names, which includes
some 58,000 entries), and no such place was turned up.  In addition I
have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 61 years and traveled
extensively in Northern California, and I do not recall ever running
into such a place.

I can only conclude either that Four Doors is merely the name of a
tavern or roadhouse and not a town or that the name itself is mistaken.
A near-soundalike is Fort Ord, near Monterey.  Several places are named
Four Corners (and other combinations with "four").  The only place name
with "door" in it is Caldor, the company town in El Dorado County of the
California Door Co.  Also, I recall that Ford Motor Company used to call
their four-door sedans Fordors, so I checked that spelling too (and
other variant spellings) with no luck.

Bob Berlo
Livermore, California