California Countryside™

The contents of this site, with the sole exception of news materials found in the Communiques section for journalists, may NOT be republished in any form or medium without the express written permission of The Fontayne Group, but feel free to link to any content, with attribution to California Countryside.

The vintage images on this site were created from Cynthia Fontayne's and The Fontayne Group's collection of old travel books, postcards and other ephemera. They are copyrighted. Some photographic images and logos were supplied by the destination or organization on whose pages they appear, and those copyrights remain with the supplier. Some images were sourced from Dover art publications or Photos.com, used in accordance with their guidelines. For weather forecasts we link to the excellent WeatherRoom (www.weatherroom.com).

Our streaming video tour of the Countryside in our Cinema section was created exclusively for California Countryside by Russ Johnson, Principal of Travelmedia Communications.

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