Wow. I was just re-reading this section over the weekend, too. We lost power for over two days because of the ice storm, so I decided to read the book again to refresh my memory about some of Graysmith’s claims. The passage you mentioned didn’t sit right with me and left a nagging feeling, but I couldn’t really figure out why until you pointed out that this bomb threat happened before Z began publicly using the name "Zodiac."

It’s certainly possible that this is another of Graysmith’s fables, but I’m not sure how he would benefit from this one so there could be something to it. Nice eye, Morf!

It’s certainly possible that this is another of Graysmith’s fables

Graysmith did write much of the book based on info he got from newspaper articles. Unless he actually interviewed people in Santa Rosa, he may have taken the story from a newspaper article. Meaning the police would have told the newspaper reporter that Z phoned in a bomb threat in ’69, and the article would be in the Santa Rosa paper.

Here is an aerial view of the K Mart in Santa Rosa taken in 1970. It’s the rectangular building on the right in the center.

I found it at this link-

http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/r … l10/id/298

Also – "Badlands card" – MAY 8th 1974!

I actually spoke with a couple of people about this and they never could find any newspaper articles or any reports of the bomb threat ever happening. I posted about this on the zk.com message board, but believe the thread was deleted. It was back when M. Butterfield was posting his Grays"myth" stuff there.

I contacted some libraries for help as well. No one ever found anything. That is not to say it didn’t happen. They could have simply not located the article. But, the people I spoke with from the local newspaper company could not find anything in their archives.

Funny though…Zodiac and Kmart? Nah…

If it’s out there…Seagull will find it.

I vaguely recall those posts, Tahoe. Part of the reason I posted the above picture with the link that identifies it with being taken in 1970 is because I also remember someone saying that the K Mart was built after 1970 so what Graysmith wrote couldn’t be true. I will look through the Santa Rosa newspaper when I’m down that way. I have found that Graysmith can be off on his dates so I will search before and after the date he gave.

"Kmart, which is owned by Sears Holding Corp., says it wants to extend its lease on the 116,000-square-foot store it has occupied in northwest Santa Rosa since 1970."

"The discount department store has been fighting its eviction from the 10-acre property on Cleveland Avenue for years, and could face a multi-million judgment for refusing to leave."

Looks like RG made, yet another boo boo

I don’t follow, Morf. The picture I posted is from 1970 and on Cleveland Ave. The KMart is still in that same spot. From what you quoted in Graysmith’s book there had been a bomb threat a year earlier but it does not say the threat was also at the same KMart.

I don’t follow, Morf. The picture I posted is from 1970 and on Cleveland Ave. The KMart is still in that same spot. From what you quoted in Graysmith’s book there had been a bomb threat a year earlier but it does not say the threat was also at the same KMart.

I don’t have the book in front of me now. Maybe he didn’t write that it was at the Kmart the year before, but if not at the Kmart, then where in Santa rosa?

I’ll see if I can figure that out.

I know some have put a connection together with the Beatles before from the Blue Meannies reference, but they also released their last album on May 8, 1970…Let It Be. This would not lend a hand to the bomb threat the year before if that turns out to be true though.

I know some have put a connection together with the Beatles before from the Blue Meannies reference, but they also released their last album on May 8, 1970…Let It Be. This would not lend a hand to the bomb threat the year before if that turns out to be true though.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s dept was under fire for some issues they had around that time, and they were being referred to as ‘blue meannies’

I drove by that KMart on Cleveland everyday well M-F’s for 16 years. I have a ton of native SR friends still there I’ll ask around. I tried archive news but couldn’t find anything. Not sure it would even make the news. I guess it would depend how far the threat went. If they had to close early, shut down Cleveland Ave. etc…..

Too bad Graysmith didn’t elaborate on how he found out about it. Surely he didn’t pull it out of thin air. Could have simply been rumor someone told him about. One even admitted they bs’d Graysmith…and they were supposed to be reputable.