{"id":5084,"date":"2012-04-08T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T19:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2012-04-08T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T19:56:59","slug":"on-a-mission-to-save-california-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/on-a-mission-to-save-california-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Mission to Save California Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/caminbel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happens when you want to buy a bell? In the case of\u00a0 Saratoga resident John Kolstad, you end up buying the bell company! Over a decade ago when Kolstad contacted the manufacturer of bells seen throughout California along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/missions\/directory.html\">El Camino Real<\/a>&#8211;The Kings Highway&#8211;he wanted only one bell. The bell company owner, an 84-year old Joe Rice, didn&#8217;t want to sell. He was looking for someone to take over the entire business, so the story goes. If Kolstad wanted his bell, he&#8217;d have to buy the entire operation and produce it himself. Swell!<\/p>\n<p>Kolstad bought the company and met the challenge of making and installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/missions\/mission-bells.html\">over 555 bells <\/a>through California Bell Co. (californiabell.com). Learn about Kolstad&#8217;s mission to save the bell legacy, and find out about the lady who started the project in 1906 (<!--StyleSheet Link--><!--StyleSheet Link--><!--StyleSheet Link--><!--StyleSheet Link--><!--StyleSheet Link-->Mrs. A.S.C. Forbes shown in left photo above). John Kolstad, California Bell Co. owner, speaks on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7 pm, at The Heritage Society of Pacific Grove Lecture Series. Location:\u00a0 Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center, Middle School Campus, Pacific Grove, CA (pacificgroveheritage.org)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/jkol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you want to buy a bell? In the case of\u00a0 Saratoga resident John Kolstad, you end up buying the bell company! Over a decade ago when Kolstad contacted the manufacturer of bells seen throughout California along El Camino Real&#8211;The Kings Highway&#8211;he wanted only one bell. The bell company owner, an 84-year old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084"}],"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=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}