Tag: Tulare Historical Museum

Travel Adventures: Miss California and Visalia Highlights

by msminnie72, posted in California, Nevada

Welcome back to our traveling blog. If you’re new here, we are a husband and wife team that travels the country and wants to share our travels with you.  Last we left we were in Gilroy for a family friend wedding. We next head to Visailia for a special event.

Miss California

If you have been following us, you know our daughter competes in the Miss America scholarship program. As Miss Culver City, she is competing for the title of Miss California. She did a fabulous job, but it wasn’t her year.

This girl is going to do great things, she just doesn’t know when or how, but she is ready.

Visalia California

So while the competion was at night, we visited the city of Visalia during the day.

https://www.tularehistoricalmuseum.org/ There is a lot of information about Tulare County here. Plan to spend a couple of hours here.
The first school bell from1884.

The displays were quite impressive and showed how life was.

So we had to have some fun with our oldest daughter Autumn. We asked her how to use this telephone and she was unsure. and then she wanted to sit at the old typewriter. She wasn’t quite sure what to do if you make a mistake. Modern technology is not like what we were raised with.

If you’re a big decathlete, you might be familiar with Bob Mathias. He was born in Tulare and they have a big section of the museum dedicated to him showing his awards and such. He went to the Olympics in 1948 and 1952 winning gold medals both times. At the time, he was the youngest person to win a gold medal in a track and field event.

If you have some time, I would highly recommend this museum.

Superior Dairy

If your at all familiar with the valley, you would know about Superior Dairy in Handford. This famous eatery has been open since 1929 and have delighted generations of families with mountain size sweetness. When you step inside, it’s like walking back in time to the 50’s with the soda fountain restaurant feel with pink barstools and cushions. Unfortunately, COVID killed this eatery and you have not been able to eat inside the restaurant since. They used to have sandwiches and salads as well and you could have lunch and dessert.

All these of my kids came here on the train as a 3rd grade fieldtrip. It was a great experience for them to ride the train. So we thought it was fitting to go back and visit.

We sat across the street in Courtyard square and enjoyed our ice cream.

A huge Change!

Our friends and family know that we have been living in our RV for two years. We moved out of our home in 2022. We packed everything into boxed and put everything except a few big pieces of furniture into our garage so our son and his new wife could move in. Well, this past February, our son got a transfer with his job and they were going to move our. We hadn’t decided what to do with the house, whether we wanted to sell it or rent it out. So while we were home, we decided to do some cleaning and eventually decided to put our house on the market. What this meant was to purge a lot of stuff and put a lot of stuff into storage. We rented a U-haul trailer for the weekend and and moved our life into storage units.

We had to clean things up, which meant taking all of our sons running numbers off his door and repaint his green room which he had since he was a child. As well as repaint Topanga’s childhood room which was a pink (think Pepto). Had to get some windows repaired. and cleared out our storage shed in the back yard. Needless to say, it was a lot more work than we planned. We had no idea how much stuff we had accumulated in our 20 years in this house.