Contrary to popular belief that Tossa has traditionally been a fishing town, in medieval times and until the arrival of tourism, the local economy was mostly based on agricultural production, principally Grape vine and cork.

Grape production began in the early 1960s, but has become important enough to be featured on the municipality ’ s seal.

Warp Connect was nicknamed " Grape ".

Although he was not a drummer, singer-guitarist Skip Spence ( who later founded Moby Grape ) was then invited to replace Peloquin.

During the late 19th century a railroad line was connected through the Grape Creek Canyon but was permanently closed after a few disastrous floods.

In 1999, Plant contributed to the tribute album for Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence, who was terminally ill.

It later was called the Emperor Grape Festival, Red Carpet Festival and is now known as the Fall Festival.

In 2008, the Silver Creek Grape Festival was featured on the nationally-televised Good Morning America.

The population of Grape Creek was 3, 138 at the 2000 census.

The area was populated as early as 1858, when the Butterfield Overland Mail established a Grape Creek station on the east bank of the east fork of Grape Creek near the present-day community.

By the 1980s, the Grape Creek-Pulliam School was in operation, and the area had become the site of a new subdivision known as Grape Creek Community.

Perhaps the most notable was What's Eating Gilbert Grape starring Johnny Depp.

One of those affected by the flooding was noted local and international musician Jerry Miller, a founding member of Moby Grape, who had recently moved to Pacific from Tacoma.

While Jerry Miller was the principal lead guitarist, all three guitarists played lead at various points, often playing off against each other, in a guitar form associated with Moby Grape as " crosstalk ".

In 2003, Moby Grape was ranked as number 121 in Rolling Stone's " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ".

In 2008, Skip Spence's song " Omaha ", from the first Moby Grape album, was listed as number 95 in Rolling Stones " 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time ".

The Mantra-Rock Dance promotional poster featuring Moby Grape. In a marketing stunt, Columbia Records immediately released five singles at once, and the band was perceived as being over-hyped.

" The Moby Grape footage was shown in 2007 as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the film.

The second album, Wow / Grape Jam, released in 1968, was generally viewed as a critical and commercial disappointment, even though the album charted at No. 20 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts, partially due to the unusual two albums for the price of one double-album packaging.

The Grape Jam LP was one of loose improvised studio jams with outside musicians ; this detracted from the stronger tunes on Wow, such as the room-shaking shuffle " Can't Be So Bad.

Fine Wine was one of several band names used by Moby Grape members during the course of a protracted legal dispute with former manager Matthew Katz over ownership of the Moby Grape name.

The Halloween cans were available again in 2006 with the return of Candy Corn and Berry Alive ( formerly Scary Berry Lemonade ) and the new Spider Cider and Gruesome Grape ( a renamed version of their regular flavor, MF Grape ).

Don Stevenson, who has rejoined Moby Grape for occasional performances, has developed business interests outside of the music industry, including time share sales of recreational property in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, where he maintains a residence.

The towns " Grape Harvest " is their main industry.

Wolfgang Grape has challenged the consensus that the embroidery is Anglo-Saxon, distinguishing between Anglo-Saxon and other Northern European techniques ; however, textile authority Elizabeth Coatsworth refutes this argument.

It consists of between South Grape Creek ( a tributary of the Pedernales River ) and Snail Creek, just south of U. S. Highway 290 on the south side of Farm to Market Road 1376.

These 48 seven-minute short cartoons were paired with Grape Ape and Mumbly cartoons, to create The Tom and Jerry / Grape Ape Show, The Tom and Jerry / Grape Ape / Mumbly Show, and The Tom and Jerry / Mumbly Show, all of which initially ran on ABC Saturday Morning between September 6, 1975 and September 3, 1977.

Grape cuttings from this vineyard were introduced to Mexico between 1889 and 1904 for the improvement of its commercial viticulture.

It is located at 11541 Croesus Avenue on Imperial Highway, between Grape Street and Mona Boulevard, near the 105 Freeway.

Grape Island c. 1910

In the early 1990s, Capcom produced a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System titled California Raisins: The Grape Escape, in which the player controlled a California Raisin through five side-scrolling levels battling various evil fruit and vegetable characters that had stolen the Raisins ' music.

Particularly prominent products of the scene were The Grateful Dead ( who had effectively become the house band of the Acid Tests ), Country Joe and the Fish, The Great Society, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane.

Flavors offered were Cola, Blue Raspberry, Cherry Bomb ( cherry cola ), Silver ( lemon-lime ), Wild Grape, Orange Blast, Passionfruit ( featuring a yellow can ) and Ultra ( a diet drink with Splenda as its artificial sweetener alongside guarana, ginseng, taurine, and vitamin B complex ).

The debut album and Wow / Grape Jam were first released on CD during the late 1980s by the San Francisco Sound label, a company owned by their former manager, Matthew Katz.

They were billed with such groups as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Iron Butterfly.

Some of the bands that performed in this manner were Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Moby Grape and Jimi Hendrix.

Orange Tic Tacs were sold without the Grape.

When Grape Newtons were introduced in the wake of Cherry, Blueberry, and Apple ( which came several years earlier ), a chimpanzee appeared on the commercial, and the song " Yes, We Have No Bananas " played to the chimp's consternation.

Marr and Sumner were joined by Doves bassist Jimi Goodwin and Black Grape drummer Ged Lynch, and together they made the album Twisted Tenderness as a more conventional four-piece group.

Yarrow, Cornflower, Bachelor's Button, St. Barnaby's Thistle, Ragwort or Groundsel, Grape Hyacinth, Joint Pine or Woody Horsetail and Hollyhock were represented in the pollen samples, all of which have long-known curative powers as diuretics, stimulants, astringents as well as anti-inflammatory properties.

Four of Watts's influential gangs — Watts Cirkle City Piru Bloods, Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips — formed a Peace Treaty agreement on April 26, 1992 following just over 4 years of peace talks which were initiated in July 1988 with the support of the local community and mosque, Masjid Al Rasul ( where talks had be conducted and the treaty was finalized ).

Black Grape were a 1990s rock band from England, featuring former members of Happy Mondays.

It was originally only available in Bondi Blue, but this was discontinued in favor of new Strawberry, Blueberry, Lime, Grape, and Tangerine colors, which were introduced shortly after the iMac was released.

Sundazed also issued the Columbia Moby Grape albums with great fanfare, but were immediately forced to withdrawal the first 3 albums due to legal hassles.

In 2006 several V's were reintroduced, including the LS " Grape " V's, the LS " burgundy " V's, the " Fire-Red " V's, the " Green Bean " V's, and " Stealth Blue " V's.

Maize and Grape vines were planted in the Cape that same year.

Grape growing and wineries were once the mainstay of the economy.

What few know, was that many members of C-14, were active participants in Robert F. Kenndy's 1968 Presidential campaign and John Tunney's 1970 Senatorial campaign, and many worked with Cesar Chavez & Joe Cerda rearding the Grape Boycott.