{"id":7513,"date":"2012-08-08T12:41:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:46:58","slug":"california-events-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-events-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Floats Your Boat is on the Menu in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tbird-boat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a classic Thunderbird? If you attend some of the\u00a0 30 + car club gatherings and shows this week, you&#8217;d be referring to an automobile. If you visit March Air Field Museum or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/california-air-museums.html\">dozen other flight museums<\/a> in California, you&#8217;d be looking for a Thunderbird military aircraft. And on the shores of Lake Tahoe on August 10 &amp; 11, 2012, the word &#8220;Thunderbird&#8221; sends thrills up the spine of visitors attending the Lake Tahoe Concours d&#8217;Elegance Classic Boat Show (laketahoeconcours.com). That particular Thunderbird shown in photo is a 1939 vintage commuter boat featuring a distinctive stainless-steel cabin top. It was built for millionaire George Whittell, a man who was fascinated with the late aircraft, automobile and boat technology.\u00a0 Earth, air and water are all represented in a weekend of events providing enough entertainment to float anyone&#8217;s boat.<\/p>\n<p>WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CALIFORNIA<\/strong> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fair-fair-fair-fair-fair-it-is-fair\/\"> Plenty of Fairs\u00a0 <\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>APPLE VALLEY<\/strong> &#8211; Rockin&#8217; Flea Market August 11.\u00a0 applevalley.org<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>BURLINGAME<\/strong> &#8211; Artzfest August 11-12, 2012.\u00a0 burlingamechamber.org<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CASPAR<\/strong> &#8211; CasparFest, Art &amp; Crafts Festival August 11.\u00a0 casparfest.org<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CHULA VISTA<\/strong> &#8211; Lemon Festival August 12. thirdavenuevillage.com<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>GLENDALE<\/strong> &#8211; Glendale Gun Show Aug 11-12, 2012. glendalegunshow.com<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>HUNTINGTON BEACH<\/strong> &#8211; Huck Finn Fishing Derby August 11, hbsands.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>OCEANSIDE<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oceanside-longboard-surfing-festival.html\">Oceanside Longboard Surfing Club Contest and Beach Festiva<\/a>l\u00a0 August 11-12, 2012\u00a0 oceansidelongboardsurfingclub.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>SAN DIEGO<\/strong> &#8211; CityFest.\u00a0 Hillcrest Annual City Fest August 12. fabuloushillcrest.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<\/strong> &#8211; Festa Coloniale Italiana\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-loves-italian-festival-festa\/\"> Italian Festival<\/a>\u00a0 August 11.\u00a0 sfiacfesta.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>SAN RAFAEL<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 San Rafael Food &amp; Wine Festival August 11. sresproductions.com<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>SANTA ANA <\/strong><\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0 Summer Carnival\u00a0\u00a0 August 10-12, 2012.\u00a0 oentertainment.net<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEBASTOPOL<\/strong> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sebastopol-gravenstein-apple-fair.html\">Gravenstein Apple Fair<\/a>\u00a0August 11-12, 2012. sebastopolappleblossom.org<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>TRUCKEE <\/strong>&#8211; Truckee Arts and Crafts Festival August 11 -12, 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 pacificfinearts.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>SUNLAND &#8211;<\/strong> Watermelon Festival August 10-12, 2012.\u00a0 lionswatermelonfestival.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>VICTORVILLE<\/strong> &#8211; Route 66 Car Show &amp; Festival August 9-12, 2012. route66festival2012.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>WOODLAND<\/strong> &#8211; Woodland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tomato-festivals.html\">Tomato Festival<\/a> August 11. woodlandtomatofestival.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a classic Thunderbird? If you attend some of the\u00a0 30 + car club gatherings and shows this week, you&#8217;d be referring to an automobile. If you visit March Air Field Museum or a dozen other flight museums in California, you&#8217;d be looking for a Thunderbird military aircraft. And on the shores of [&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\/7513"}],"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=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}