Ships in Albion Harbor, 1897. Ships in Albion harbor are: an unknown craft on far left carried tanbark; the Amethyst, second from left, carried ties; and the scow, Sacramento, second from right, loading from lighter - all lined up to load lumber at Albion wharf on August 15, 1897. Other ships are unidentified. (Gift of Emery Escola) New! Cemetery Tour - Take a hauntingly beautiful walk [...]
Main Street Courtyard, 1963-1977. In 1961, Bill Zacha, founder of the Mendocino Art Center and owner of this property, constructed a new building that housed on its lower floor the Mendocino Laundromat, seen here on the right. The Laundromat operated until 1977, when water shortages caused it to close down. (Gift of Karen McGrath) August 14, 1967 - Mendocino Laundromat was the scene of [...]
Boyle's Camp on Big River, 1912 - 1930. (Gift of Ronnie James) August 13, 1917 - The Thompson School opened with Miss Hazel Bowman as the first teacher. This school was named for Henry Thompson and was located on his ranch on Little Lake Road, east of the Mendocino Woodlands. Mr. Thompson built the original schoolhouse near his home to provide a school for [...]
The current exhibit on Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, and the poster art they inspired, had curators at the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino digging through the archives and finding wonderful depictions of local folks, and flights of fantasy, produced by illustrators and cartoonists of the late 1960s and 70s. On August 14th at 3:30 p.m., “Sunday Afternoon With…the Cat Mother Illustrators” will take [...]
On this day in Mendocino history… The Piccolotti children, c. 1935. Back row, left to right: Fred, Albert, George. Front row: Henry, Emil, Louis with baby Alice in front of Henry. August 10, 1946 - Emil Piccolotti died at the Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado at the age of 20. He had enlisted in the United States Army in January 1945, and at [...]
THEN: Looking west towards the Kelley House pond, April 1975. Homer Drinkwater operated a market in the building in the background from 1947 to 1974. In April 1975, Robert Peterson, founder of the Jack in the Box fast-food chain and owner of the Mendocino Hotel, presented the deed to the Kelley House property to Mendocino Historical Research, Inc. (later, the Kelley House Museum), for its restoration [...]
Photograph of logs being hauled to a landing by a Holt tractor. Two men are seated on the tractor. August 7, 1921 - The first tractor ordered for use in logging the Big River woods fell through the northern end of Big River Bridge, landing on the beach and burying its nose in the sand. The Beacon reported that, “The driver of the machine [...]
Musicians play at Mendocino Art Fair on Heider Field, August 1995. (Gift of the photographer, Dave A. Belew) August 5, 1995 - The 36th annual Arts & Crafts Fair opened on Heider Field. The annual fundraising event supports the operational costs of the non-profit Mendocino Art Center, and 1995 was the second year the fair had been held on Heider Field. More than 90 [...]
When I asked my friend Heather what she knew about the history of her charming old house on Calpella Street, she said, “Not much.” It was built in 1882, according to the plaque in the front window, and a couple years ago an elderly gent named Andy Brown came by with his niece to see the house in which he had grown up. She learned a [...]