Tag: california

Pretty Little San Francisco

My grandmother’s tray holding some of the colors for this project.  The colors line up fairly well, no? Golden Gate Bridge Transamerica Tower Coit Tower Telegraph Hill Tower Pastel Row Houses Embarcadero Chinatown Gate Mission Delores Palace of Fine Arts Karl — The Fog Cable Cars

Rolling Through the Bay – Scott Weaver

This nine foot tall wooden sculpture of San Francisco was made with glue and 105,387 and a half toothpicks. It was built by Scott Weaver who, stuck at home at the age of 14 with spinal meningitis, started working in earnest on the project and continued on it for 37 years. It has 10 different starting…… Continue reading Rolling Through the Bay – Scott Weaver

Easter Lily Land in Northern California

The Easter Lily make a great centerpiece to any Easter dinner surrounded by family and friends. And it’s very likely they were grown right here in Northern California.The fertile land in Smith River, California, sitting in the very northwest corner of California, is home to less than 900 residents, but roughly 95 precent of the…… Continue reading Easter Lily Land in Northern California

Mexican California: The Heyday of the Rachos

For a quarter century after the achievement of Mexican independence in 1821, California was a remote northern province of the nation of Mexico. Huge cattle ranches, or ranchos, emerged as the dominant institutions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers of the great changes that would sweep California…… Continue reading Mexican California: The Heyday of the Rachos

Tustin Street Name History

Columbus Tustin showed a lack of originality in 1870 when he named the streets dividing Tustin City’s 100 acres into 300-square-foot blocks. He used numbers for east and west streets with First on the north side of town and Sixth on the south. North and south streets received alphabetical names, A through H.Fourth Street became…… Continue reading Tustin Street Name History

Google’s “California: Designing Freedom”

Here is a great interview by Rob Giampietro, of Google Design, with his collaborators Justin McGuirk and Brendan McGetrick of the London Design Museum. They are currently working on an exhibit called “California: Designing Freedom”, which opened in London on May 24. Additionally, here is an interview between Matias Duarte, VP of Design and Justin…… Continue reading Google’s “California: Designing Freedom”

Replicas of 1906 bell mark El Camino Real

Originally El Camino Real, also known as the Kings Highway, was a footpath worn by the Franciscan fathers as they traveled up and down California in 1769 between the 21 missions they built. Eventually the trail became wide enough to accommodate horses and wagons, but it was not considered a route until the last mission…… Continue reading Replicas of 1906 bell mark El Camino Real