Jim Campos, Bonnie Kelm, Dave Moore, Tom Moore, Carpinteria Valley Museum of History

Greater Carpinteria:

Summerland and La Conchita

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carpinteria once featured a racetrack at one end of town and a gargantuan statue of Santa Claus at the other--"anchor" operations highlighting this unique southern corner of coastal Santa Barbara County. A few miles south, in the northern corner of Ventura County, nestles La Conchita, where an early seaside stagecoach route and a famous banana plantation helped shape the local flavor. The historical characteristics of Summerland, on the coast north of "Carp," as Carpinteria is known, have included a J. Paul Getty oil operation and youth baseball played on fields lighted by piped-in natural gas. The three distinct communities of Greater Carpinteria are tied together by both the spectacular coastal landscapes-- beautiful beaches and majestic mountain ranges--as well as the area's intrinsically linked schools and businesses. It is an eclectic paradise between Ventura and Santa Barbara that draws a million visitors a year.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 166mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780738570983
• ISBN-10: 0738570982
• Artikelnr.: 26847693

Autorenporträt

Authors and local residents Jim Campos, Bonnie Kelm, Dave Moore, and Tom Moore and the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History have joined forces to paint a picture of Carpinteria, La Conchita, and Summerland for this follow-up volume to Carpinteria, in the Images of America series. Campos, Kelm, and the Moores are all former educators.