{"id":25246,"date":"2018-07-01T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25246"},"modified":"2018-07-01T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T23:06:58","slug":"california-adobes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-adobes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Mania, California Adobes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ranchomud.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rancho Los Cerritos in Long Beach hosts the annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-mud-mania.html\">Mud Mania<\/a>\u00a0on July 7, 2018 &#8212; activities include adobe brick-making.<\/p>\n<p>Many of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/missions\/directory.html\">California&#8217;s missions<\/a> offer history days for the public to see adobe brick demonstrations and other skills that helped turn California into a gleaming, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/architecture\/tallest-buildings.html\">high-rise civilization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While mud holds a special interest for kids who love to get dirty at places such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/huntington-beach-adventure-playground.html\">Adventure Playground<\/a> in Huntington Beach and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/kids\/berkeley-adventure-playground.html\">Berkeley<\/a>, there&#8217;s another interesting facet to its application as seen in those old adobe buildings.<\/p>\n<h2>If the walls could talk!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In Santa Barbara County the decaying Hollister Adobe (also known as Rancho Las Cruces) is believed to have once housed a post office, general store, hotel, court, and brothel! Steamy stories abound in Santa Barbara, a great place to explore historic structures and attractions such as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/red-tile-walking-tour-in-santa-barbara-california.html\">Red Tile Walking Tour<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In Ventura County locals know all too well about talking walls. Historian Richard Senate for many years has provided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/ghosts-of-the-california-coast.html\">adobe tours<\/a>, often listed on the City of Ventura website. His tales about past inhabitants can be shocking &#8212; especially if you get tapped on the shoulder by one of them unexpectedly. Yes, some have seen or felt ghosts that may dwell within these structures!<\/li>\n<li>Monterey could be the epi-center of adobe brick, especially during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/monterey-adobe-christmas.html\">Christmas in the Adobes<\/a>, a cool event open to the public.<\/li>\n<li>Cities, historical societies, National Park Service and California State Parks all do their best to maintain hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/architecture\/adobes.html\">historic adobe structures<\/a> throughout the state.\u00a0Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park contains the largest domestic adobe building remaining in the United States, constructed from 1836- 1846.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rancho Los Cerritos in Long Beach hosts the annual\u00a0Mud Mania\u00a0on July 7, 2018 &#8212; activities include adobe brick-making. Many of\u00a0California&#8217;s missions offer history days for the public to see adobe brick demonstrations and other skills that helped turn California into a gleaming, high-rise civilization. While mud holds a special interest for kids who love to [&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\/25246"}],"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=25246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25247,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions\/25247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}