{"id":23204,"date":"2016-09-25T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23204"},"modified":"2016-09-25T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:20:47","slug":"preserving-authentic-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/preserving-authentic-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Authentic California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/losalold.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are <a href=\"http:\/\/seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-alamos-old-days.html\">Los Alamos Old Days Parade winners<\/a>. Best Vehicle Entry is\u00a0a 1949 Farmall Tractor, owned by\u00a0Charles Linquiti (was his grandfather&#8217;s), and still in use today!<\/p>\n<p>LOS ALAMOS, CALIF. &#8212;\u00a0A\u00a0small Santa Barbara County town just off\u00a0the &#8220;101&#8221; in the heart of Central Coast wine country is a throw-back in time. Preserving its unique Western character and hospitality is the goal of the\u00a0all-volunteer, philanthropic Los Alamos Valley Men&#8217;s Club, according to Laura Kath who&#8217;s been a resident, business owner (Mariah Marketing)\u00a0and parade announcer for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Town Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Union Hotel 1890,\u00a0unionhotelvictmansion.com<br \/>\nVictorian House 1890,\u00a0thevick.com \u00a0(themed suites include Pirate, Egyptian, Roman, French and Gypsy)<br \/>\nWm. Gewe House 1881<br \/>\nPerkins House 1882<br \/>\nB.F. Whitney 1891<br \/>\nBlue Cottage 1890<br \/>\nCommunity Church 1887<br \/>\nC.H. Pearson House 1878<br \/>\nBell School Site 1876<br \/>\nCrowell House 1882<br \/>\nF. Foxen House 1882<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are Los Alamos Old Days Parade winners. Best Vehicle Entry is\u00a0a 1949 Farmall Tractor, owned by\u00a0Charles Linquiti (was his grandfather&#8217;s), and still in use today! LOS ALAMOS, CALIF. &#8212;\u00a0A\u00a0small Santa Barbara County town just off\u00a0the &#8220;101&#8221; in the heart of Central Coast wine country is a throw-back in time. Preserving its unique Western character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}