Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Byron Hot Springs Author

TRACY, Calif. - June 2, 2014 - PRLog -- Affectionately known as the “Carlsbad of the West,” Byron Hot Springs has served a variety of purposes in its lifetime: resort, celebrity destination, interrogation camp, golf course, and now, an unused historic landmark.

In over 200 vintage images, Carol Jensen, a Contra Costa County native, chronicles the glittering life of this historic resort from its beginnings in the 1800’s to its anticipated reopening today.

Jensen hopes the book will “help provide impetus for the Contra Costa County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors approval of plans to develop and restore the Byron Hot Springs Resort.”

Highlights of Byron Hot Springs:

·    Features never before seen vintage photos of the people, propaganda, and correspondence that made Byron Hot Springs what it was

·    Includes shots of one of the oldest golf courses in the western US

·    Reveals Byron Hot Springs as a celebrity destination in the past

·    Shows World War II’s use of the camp as  Nazi and Japanese POW interrogation camp- “Camp Tracy”

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where-  Costco

3250 W Grant Line Road, Tracy CA 95377

When-Friday, June 13^th, 2014; 11:30 a.m.—1:30 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and on-line retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Byron Hot Springs

By Carol A. Jensen and the East Contra Costa Historical Society

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

Available:  December 4, 2006