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This Sunday! May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013, at 2pm – History of the Del Mar Fairgrounds
by Diane and Paul Welch
What does Carlsbad have in common with other Southern California cities?
“Join the famous Don Diego and celebrities of the past like Bing Crosby, Raquel Welch, W.C. Fields and others as you browse the history of this fascinating landmark and cultural guidepost to San Diego County.”
Lecture will be held at
Carlsbad by the Sea Retirement Community
2855 Carlsbad Blvd.
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Carlsbad Historical Society Sunday Lecture
May 19, 2013, at 2pm – History of the Del Mar Fairgrounds
by Diane and Paul Welch
What does Carlsbad have in common with other Southern California cities?
“Join the famous Don Diego and celebrities of the past like Bing Crosby, Raquel Welch, W.C. Fields and others as you browse the history of this fascinating landmark and cultural guidepost to San Diego County.”
Lecture will be held at
Carlsbad by the Sea Retirement Community
2855 Carlsbad Blvd.
Carlsbad, CA 92008
For more information Contact us at 760-434-9189 or by email cbadhistory@yahoo.com
Or visit our website http://www.carlsbadhistoricalsociety.com/
Carlsbad Historical Society hopes to add paleontology exhibit – reprint
By Phil Diehl12:01 a.m.Nov. 22, 2012Updated1:50 p.m.Nov. 21, 2012
Members of the Carlsbad Historical Society would like to expand the scope of their museum by a few million years.
The Historical Society has applied for a grant that would allow it to add a small paleontology exhibit, explained society President German Gutierrez.
The exhibit would include information about such creatures as the ankylosaurus, a low-slung, armor-plated dinosaur that lived in the area now known as Carlsbad about 65 million years ago. The ankylosaurus weighed as much as six tons and had a tail like a hammer or a club.
“Remains dating back over 100 million years have been found in North County, particularly in Carlsbad, and are displayed at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park,” Gutierrez said last week.
The display would be primarily photos and posters, he said, but the Natural History Museum has thousands of ancient fossils and maybe a few to spare. “I’m wondering if maybe they can lend us something,” he said.
The Historical Society recently applied to the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation for a grant of about $4,000, he said. The money would be used, along with $1,000 of the society’s own money and volunteer labor, to add the paleontology exhibit and improve some existing exhibits.
The Historical Society’s museum is in a barn on the west side of the city’s Magee Park, along Carlsbad Boulevard. It was built about the same time as the park’s house, which was completed in 1887. The barn stored tools and a horse-drawn buggy or buckboard, Gutierrez said. The original buckboard was bought in 1910 by the Shipley family, which owned the property. It’s on display after being restored, with black leather upholstery and rebuilt wood-spoke wheels.
Julia Shipley was known to be a proficient buckboard driver, states a display card beside the vehicle, which she sometimes drove on the narrow, dusty roads from Carlsbad to Escondido and Del Mar.
The barn was closed for a long time, but about 10 years ago the historical society added a concrete floor and opened it as a museum.
Among the exhibits is one of the big chickens made of painted plaster that used to advertise chicken dinners at the old Twin Inns restaurant, the distinctive Victorian at Carlsbad Boulevard and Carlsbad Village Drive.
“There were several generations of chickens over 50 years,” Gutierrez said. The fake fowl were not very sturdy, though, and “they would go bad over time.”
Also on display is a 4-foot-tall bank vault made in the late 1800s that in the 1930s was used by the only public bank in Carlsbad. The vault’s lock is controlled by an internal timer, a way of assuring no one can open it overnight.
“At 9 in the morning — ‘click’ — it would open,” Gutierrez said.
Other items are old saddles, farm tools and stone tools used by American Indians.
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Hubert Smith: January 3, 1925 – January 11, 2013
Long time Carlsbad Historical Society member and board member Hubert “Hubie” Smith, passed away early Friday morning, January 11, 2013 at home. He was born in Ottumwa, Iowa and came to California in 1930. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Joyce; stepson, Douglas Kolb (Candis); two grandsons, Scott and Kyle; half-brother and sister, John (L.J.) Richards and Darlene Brown.
History/Nature Mini Tour –Buena Vista Creek Valley
Last Chance : History/Nature Mini Tour – Buena Vista Creek Valley
Walk in the valley and the grounds of the historic Marron Adobe
See it before it is too late!
This historic adobe and the land surrounding it is identified as one of the 12 most endangered historic sites in all of San Diego County. The Valley includes the El Salto Waterfall, a sacred site to Native Americans ; an adobe dating back to the original Mexican land grant; a key link in the regional wildlife movement corridor; and Buena Vista Creek with its rich natural resources that support the downstream lagoon.
See it before it is too late! McMillin proposes 656 homes in this valley , a massive development that will destroy the historic context of this priceless area.
Mini tour includes a short walk in the valley down to Buena Vista Creek, tour of the grounds of the historic adobe and special exhibits that highlight the cultural, historic and natural resources of this very special area. Tour will be repeated on three Saturdays in Jan and Feb from 10 am – 11 am.
When : Sat January 12 or January 26 or Sat Feb 9 Time : 10 – 11 AM
Where : Cul-de-sac on Haymar Rd near historic Marron Adobe in Carlsbad (near # 78 at College exit)
Directions: From College exit off # 78 take Haymar/Plaza Rd to the west (frontage road that goes past Mossey-Nissan) Go 7/10th of a mile to the end of the road. Park in cul-de-sac or along Haymar.
For more information contact info@preservecalavera.org or call 760-724-3887.
