 The name is a blend of "California" and "Minnesota", supposedly to allow all kinds of weather or climate in the stories, although Calisota has very little in common with the latter (a state in the Upper Midwest, far from the ocean) and Northern California's regional weather is variable enough by itself.The Money Bin is the building where Scrooge McDuck stores the portions of his money he earned by himself.Carl Barks invented the "money swim" in his story "A Financial Fable" (1950), followed by the "Money Bin" in the story "Terror of the Beagle Boys" (1951).