Pacific Gas & Electric
See Gas & Electric Companies

PACIFIC GROVE

PACIFIC GROVE—FIRE DEPARTMENT

Painted caves
See Caves

PAJARO

Pajaro River
See Rivers

Parades
See Elections; Days—Fairs & Festivals; Days—Holidays; Parks and Recreation and the Rodeo Binders filed in the Local History Section under LHR 791.84—CAL

Paraiso Springs
See SPRINGS

PARIS VALLEY

PARKFIELD
See also Earthquakes

Parking Garages,
See Buildings—the city—the street

PARKS AND RECREATION
Related Heading: Land Use

PARKS AND RECREATION

• ACOSTA PLAZA PARK
• ALL VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK
• ALLEN FUNT RANCH
• ANDREW MOLERA STATE PARK
• ASILOMAR
• AZAHEL CRUZ PARK
• BAATAN PARK
• BIG CREEK RESERVE
• BOLSA KNOLLS SKATE PARK
• BREAD BOX
• CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS
• CARR LAKE
• CENTRAL PARK
• CESAR CHAVEZ COMMUNITY PARK
• CLAREMONT PARK
• CLOSTER PARK See also Biography—C—Closter Family
• Community Center See Parks and Recreation—Sherwood Park
• DEL MONTE BEACH
• Del Monte Dunes
• See Parks and Recreation—Monterey State Beach
• DORRANCE RANCH
• EAGLE CAMP
• East Laurel Pocket Park See AZAHEL CRUZ PARK
• ELDORADO PARK
• ELKHORN SLOUGH See also Lakes
• FIREHOUSE RECREATION CENTER
• Fish Ranch See Parks and Recreation, Palo Corona Ranch
• FORT ORD DUNES STATE PARK
• FORT ORD NATIONAL MONUMENT
• FREMONT PEAK STATE PARK
• GABILAN CREEK WILDERNESS SANCTUARY
• GARLAND RANCH REGIONAL PARK
• Happy Valley Birthday Park See Business Enterprises—Amusements
• HARTNELL GULCH
• Hebbron Heights Park See Cesar Chavez Community Park
• HEBBRON HEIGHTS RECREATION CENTER
• JAPANESE SCHOOL BALL PARK
• JACKS PEAK REGIONAL PARK
• JETTY BEACH
• JULIA PFEIFFER-BURNS STATE PARK
• LA PAZ PARK
• LAGUNA SECA
• LAKE SAN ANTONIO/NACIMIENTO RECREATION AREA See also Lakes
• LAUREL HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD PARK
• LAUREL NEIGHBORHOOD PARK
• LUPE’S FIREHOUSE See Parks and Recreation—Firehouse Recreation Center
• LESTER ROWNTREE ARBORETUM
• LOCKE-PADDON PARK
• LOS COCHES See also: Buildings—Adobes—Los Coches
• Lomas Lindas Park See Cesar Chavez Community Park
• LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST See also Fires
• MANZANITA PARK
• MARINA STATE BEACH
• MARKS RANCH
• MARTIN DUNES
• MILL CREEK PARK PRESERVE
• MISSION PARK
• MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY Related Headings: Coast; Business Enterprises—Fisheries; Organizations—C—Central Coast Regional Coastal Zone Commission, and Petroleum
• MONTEREY CONFERENCE CENTER
• Monterey County Parks Department See Parks and Recreation
• MONTEREY PENINSULA REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT
• MONTEREY STATE BEACH
• MONTEREY STATE HISTORIC PARK
• MOSS LANDING COMMUNITY PARK
• MOSS LANDING STATE BEACH
• NATIONAL PARKS
• NATIVIDAD CREEK PARK
• NORTH COUNTY RECREATION AND PARK DISTRICT
• NORTHGATE PARK
• OPTIMIST CLUB BOYS CAMP
• Pajaro Beach See Parks and Recreation—Zmudowski Beach
• PALO CORONA RANCH
• PEOPLE’S PARK (Castroville)
• PFEIFFER BIG SUR STATE PARK
• PINE CANYON PARK
• PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT
• Pinnacles National Monument See Parks and Recreation—Pinnacles National Monument
• POINT LOBOS RANCH
• POINT LOBOS RESERVE See also Biography—Marks Family
• Point Piños Lighthouse Reservation See Lighthouses
• PRADO PARK
• ROYAL OAKS REGIONAL PARK
• Salinas Parks See Parks and Recreation—Salinas City Parks
• SALINAS CITY PARKS
• SALINAS MUNICIPAL STADIUM See also Parks and Recreation—Sports Complex
• SALINAS RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
• SALINAS RODEO GROUNDS See also Parks and Recreation—Sports Complex
• For Rodeo Grounds Horse Boarding See Animals
• SALINAS SPORTS COMPLEX See also Parks and Recreation—Salinas Rodeo Grounds
• SAN LORENZO PARK See also Museums—Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum
• SAN SIMEON
• Santa Lucia Wilderness See Los Padres National Forest
• SANTA RITA PARK
• Schneider Park See Parks and Recreation--Urabe Park
• SHERWOOD PARK (Includes the Community Center; The Salinas Municipal Swimming Pool; Sherwood Hall; the Steinbeck Institute of Art & Culture; and the Tennis Complex) For the Hats in Three Stages of Landing, See also Art and Artists, and Biography—Steinbeck, John. See also Art and Artists, and Biography-Claes Oldenburg for additional information on the Hats in Three Stages of Landing, a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg.
• SOCCER COMPLEX
• SOTO PLAZA
• SPRECKELS VETERANS MEMORIAL DISTRICT PARK
• Steinbeck Institute of Art & Culture See Parks and Recreation—Sherwood Park
• TATUM’S GARDEN
• TORO PEAK PARK (Proposed)
• TORO REGIONAL PARK See also Fires
• URABE PARK
• Ventana Wilderness Area See Parks and Recreation—Los Padres National Forest
• VENTANNA WILDERNESS SANCTUARY See also Fires
• VETERANS PARK (Salinas)
• VINCE DI MAGGIO PARK
• ZMUDOWSKI BEACH

Parking
See Disabled; and Roads

PEACH TREE

PEBBLE BEACH

Penacate
See Santa Rita

Periodicals
See Publishing

PESCADERO CANYON

Pests
See Medicine and Health

PESTICIDES
See also Medicine and Health

PETROLEUM
For photographs of the Associated Oil Company under flood waters See Floods

Photographers
See Art, Business Enterprises—Photographers, and under individual names in the Biography files

Physicians
See Medicine and Health and individual names under Biography
See also the book Medical History of Monterey County in the Local History Collection Under LHR 610.9794.

Picnics
See Days—Holidays and Parks and Recreation

Pinnacles
See Parks and Recreation—Pinnacles

Pirates
See Legends

Plague
See Medicine and Health

Place Names
See Names, Geographical

PLANNED COMMUNITIES
Includes Apartment Complexes, Condominums, Maps, Mobile Homes, and Senior Citizen Housing.
For the Corey House, See also Buildings—Buena Vista; and Biography—C—Corey, Hiram
For Rippling River, See Disabled
For Sandy Shores, See Disabled
See also

• Acosta Plaza
• Airport Tract
• Alisal Marketplace
• Ambler Park
• Bardin Road Complex
• Bay Ridge
• Bolsa Knolls
• Boronda Oaks
• Boronda Road Subdivision
• Brentwood
• Bridge Street Apartment Complex
• Cambridge Village
• Cascade Apartments
• Castlerock
• Castroville Low-Income Housing Project
• Chaparral
• Colonia Azteca
• Condominiums near Steinbeck House and Pepsi Cola Plant
• Corral de Tierra
• Creekbridge
• Creekside Estates
• Cypress Meadows
• Dee Ana Villa Apartments
• Del Monte and Williams
• Del Monte Avenue Townhouses
• Dunes at Marina
• East Alisal Airbase Project
• East Alisal Housing Project
• East Romie Lane Retirement Apartments
• Ferrini Ranch
• Fremont Vista
• Gabilan Plaza
• Haciendas Place
• H.C. Hansen Subdivision
• Harden Ranch
• Harding Apartments
• Harding Park
• Harper Canyon
• Indian Springs
• Jensen Camp
• Las Casitas
• La Gloria Senior Apartments
• Las Palmas
• Laurel Heights
• Los Olivos Village
• Los Padres Apartments
• Low Income Housing Castroville
• Low Income Housing Del Monte Avenue & Williams Road
• Maple Park
• Market and Lincoln
• Markham Ranch
• Moro Cojo
• Montecito Estates
• Monterra
• Monterey County Housing Authority houses/apartments
• Monterey II
• Monterey Dunes Colony
• Mountain Valley
• Northgate Townhomes
• North Main and Alvin Drive
• Northridge Estates
• Northridge Park
• 101 Trailer Park
• Oak Hills
• Oak Park
• Park Place
• Palm Court
• Parkside Manor
• Pedrazzi
• Pine Canyon Estates
• Public Housing
• Quail Creek Estates
• Ranch San Juan
• Rancho Chualar II
• Rancho El Toro
• Rancho Monterey
• Rancho San Juan
• Red Pony Ranch
• Roosevelt Street Apartments
• Salinas Area Subdivision Maps
• Salinas en Pointe
• San Benancio Canyon
• San Joaquin Village
• San Juan Grade Apartments
• Sanborn School Apartment Complex
• Santa Rita
• Sconberg Ranch/Mountain Valley
• Senior Citizens Complex on East Romie Lane
• Senior Citizens Complex on Market and Lincoln Streets
• Serra Village
• Sherwood Lake Mobile Home Park
• Spreckels Subdivision [Tanimura owned land]
• Steinbeck Flats
• Sunflower Gardens
• Tesoros Del Campos
• Toro Hills Estates
• Toro Park Estates
• Toro Sunshine
• Toro Vista (Formerly Ferrini Ranch Project)
• Tynan Village
• University School Apartment Complex
• University Village
• Vance Estates
• Village North, Inc.
• Vista Nueva Estates
• West Laurel Drive and U.S. 101
• West Market Senior Housing (Safeway Building)
• West Park
• Williams Ranch
• Williams Road
• Woodside Park

Planning and Zoning
See Land Use

PLEYTO

Point Lobos
See PARKS AND RECREATION—POINT LOBOS

Poets
See Authors; For 1,000 poems See Museums—National Steinbeck Center

Point Pinos
See Lighthouses

Point Sur Naval Station
See Lighthouses

Police Departments
See place and Police Departments, i.e., Monterey County—Police Departments; Salinas—Police Department; Soledad—Police Departments

Politics and Government,
See Place and the subheading Politics and Government, i.e, Monterey County—Politics and Government; and Salinas--Government

POLLUTION—AIR
Related Headings: Business Enterprises—Manufacturing (Granite Construction Quarry); and Business Enterprises—Manufacturing—Kaiser Industries

POLLUTION—NOISE

POLLUTION—WATER
See also Water Companies
For the San Jerardo Cooperative water problem, See Agricultural Laborers—Housing—San Jerardo

POPULATION

Port of Watsonville
See Watsonville

PORTOLA EXPEDITION

Portuguese in Monterey County,
See Ethnic Groups—Portuguese

POSTAL SERVICE

• AROMAS
• BUENA VISTA
• CASTROVILLE
• LOCKWOOD
• MOSS LANDING
• NORTH MONTEREY COUNTY
• PRUNEDALE
• SALINAS
• SOLEDAD
• SPRECKELS

Poultry
See Agriculture—Poultry

Power Resources
See Gas & Electric Companies; and Windmills
See also the Water Issues in Monterey County binder, LH R553.7 WAT, in the Local History Collection
Related Term: Energy

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY
See also Schools—Defense Language Institute

Printing
See Newspapers, and Publishing

PRISONS

• GONZALES JAIL
• Juvenile Hall See Juvenile Corrections
• MONTEREY COUNTY JAIL
• Natividad Boys Ranch See Juvenile Corrections—Natividad Boys Ranch
• SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON
• SOLEDAD

Prostitution,
See Business Enterprises—Sex Oriented

PRUNEDALE

Publications
See Publishing

PUBLISHING
See also Newspapers
For example(s) of:

• Monterey Bay Voices, See Authors
• Motor Coach Age, See Bus Lines
• Oldtown Action, or Oldtown Gazette, See Organizations—O—Oldtown Salinas Association
• Paralax, See Organizations—M—Monterey County Peace Center
• Pebble Beach Scoreboard, See Pebble Beach
• Salinas Chamber Notes, See Organizations—C—Chamber of Commerce Salinas Visions in Action, See Organizations—M.
• Related Headings: Authors, and Art and Artists