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The Maleville brothers played an important role in establishing the Town and Country area of Sacramento and particularly Fulton Avenue, known from the 1940s through the 1960s as a thoroughfare loaded with quality eateries, lodges and nightclubs. Jack, Elwood and "Buddy" Maleville opened the Coral Reef Lodge and the Coral Reef Restaurant across the street and a public swimming pool, known as a "plunge" in the late 1940s. The pool changed hands and was later owned by "Western Swing" specialist Bob Wills, but the Coral Reef Lodge and Restaurant remained destination points for people from all over the world until they shuttered their doors and were eventually razed in the 1990s. Elwood Maleville served as vice-president and general manager of the Sacramento Inn when it first opened to the public late in 1957.
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