Bayside, California
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Bayside, California is a region located in the northern part of the state, along the coast, in Humboldt County. Though Bayside has its own post office, it is formally part of Arcata and has no mayor. It is policed by the local sheriff station. Bayside is home to many middle class families, mostly Caucasian. Most parents work away from the home, some at the nearby Humboldt State University or in the timber industry that exists in Northern California. Many children in Bayside attend Jacoby Creek Elementary School, a charter elementary school in the area.
Bayside is surrounded by pastures and second growth forests (very few old growth trees remain in this heavily logged area) and dotted with aging Victorian houses. The Bayside Grange (built 1941), an historical meeting hall for farmers in Bayside, is still used as an all-purpose hall for the community. Right across the street, in the original Jacoby Creek School building, is the site of a Hot Yoga studio. Bayside is also home to Hank's Coffee Shop across the street from Jacoby Creek School. Hank's was once called Bayside Market (home of the famous 'Hank Dogs'), and the original Hank ran Bayside Market for many years, up until the early 1990's. In 2004, Hanks niece bought the building, and did a complete make-over and naming it Hanks Coffee Shop.
As you go up Jacoby Creek Road, the first left is now known as Baywood Heights, a private road and development. This used to be an old dirt logging road. Area teenagers frequented the property before it became a development. If you went to the top of the hill there was a pile of old growth redwood trunks you could stand on and look down the other side toward the Appleton's old ranch house.
A common misconception is that the early 90s hit television show Saved by the Bell took place in Bayside, when in fact the show was set in Pacific Palasades, CA, and the characters on the show attended the fictional Bayside High School. Also, Bayside High School is where the characters of That's So Raven go to school.
The first people to settle in Bayside were members of the Quear family. (There is a large, dilapidated book in the Jacoby Creek Elementary School library that is an excellent history of the area, not just Bayside, and it contains more detailed facts.)
