Santa Barbara Carriage Museum

Established in 1972

located at 129 Castillo Street, SB

near the waterfront at Pershing Park

enter the Museum via the front gate

Storke Saddle

Open daily

9 am to 3 pm 

Monday - Friday 

for unassisted tours

3rd Sunday of the month, 

docent tours are available 

without reservations

1 pm 4 pm

private tours are available for schools and groups 

by reservation, call 9 am - 3 pm weekdays 

The Saloon was renamed the "Senate Saloon"

after the first bar established in Santa Barbara.

The Saloon was located on the 500 block

of State Street, before the turn of the Century.

The newly constructed saloon at the Museum includes 

western saloon doors from a historic saloon in 

Montana (donated by John Mullins).  A mirror behind 

the bar naming the saloon, a one hundred year old sink 

used for ice, aged whiskey bottles from the 1930's

 prohibition period, bottle holders and storage cabinets. 

(funds for improvements donated by Steve and Susan Engles)

for more information call  805 962-2353

or click this link to visit the Museum's website

(all information and photos from the Museum's website)

Santa Barbara Fair and Expo April 25-29

Earl Warren Show Grounds

Las Positas and Calle Real

805 687-0766

"FAIR-y Tails come true" at the 23rd annual Santa Barbara Fair & Expo, April 25-29, 2012 at the Earl Warren Showgrounds. It's a happy place that will put a smile on your face! – Exciting Carnival Rides, Bewitching Fair Food and Enchanting Farm Animals are waiting for you!

The story begins in the Carnival Midway. With more than 30 rides and attractions, you will find yourself deeply entrenched in fun. Don't miss the Solar Powered Carousel, only at the Santa Barbara Fair & Expo!

Your children will think they are a part of a great new story as they ride on a real Pony and see the exotic animals in the Petting Zoo. The Kid's Carnival will excite and delight you and the children. You'll hoot with laughter at the All Alaskan Racing Pigs as they run around the track, jump the hurdles and compete for the honor of being the fastest little piggy in the land.

All of your Fair-y Tail dream will come true when you stop along the way to relax and enjoy some great entertainment on the "Jack & the Beanstalk Stage" and the"Humpty Dumpty Stage". Music, Dancing, Magic and more will keep you and your family entertained for hours!

Visit "Storybook Land" (Warren Hall) to see the expo showcase of local foods, wine & beer, arts & crafts, horticulture and fine arts displays. You will love tasting free samples of the featured desserts, appetizers and other scrumptious foods in the Fair & Expo Cooking Contest, offered daily at the Santa Barbara Fair & Expo, where FAIR-y Tails come true!.

Don't head for home until you take your family to visit "The Land of Make-Believe". (Exhibit Building) Here, you will enjoy the interactive displays. You will also be able to see artwork, photography, pottery and many other projects entered by children from our community. For complete info on how to enter in all areas of the Fair, please visit the Exhibitor page on this website or call 687-0766.

So if you're ready for some magical fun that will satisfy your whole family, come visit the Santa Barbara Fair & Expo.

"Off The Wall" SBMA Special Event

Friday, April 20, 6 – 9 pm

Back by popular demand, the SBMA Women's 

Board presents OFF THE WALL―a fun evening 

of suspense as tickets are randomly drawn and 

guests select works of art donated by local artists.

$300/ticket. Each ticket admits up to two people 

and entitles the ticket holder(s) to one work of art.

For more information or to purchase tickets, 

contact Karen Kawaguchi at 884.6428 or 

visit sbmawb.org.

Silver Cloud, oil on canvas

by Phoebe Brunner

Click here for a listing of all upcoming SBMA events.

Become a Member today. For general information, please contact us at info@sbma.net. (all information and photo from SBMA newsletter)

Carpinteria Greenhouse and Nursery Tour April 14th

The flowers are blooming and the farmers are getting 

ready for you to come see their farms!

Tell your friends and share this unique opportunity to 

meet your local flower grower!

See for yourself why "California Flowers are

America's Flowers!"

Santa Barbara County Flower and Nursery 

Growers' Association is hosting a day of

farm tours in the Carpinteria Valley on Saturday

April 14th between 11 am and 4 pm

The public is invited to come and learn about the local

flower industry and see the variety of crops

that are grown.  

This event is free and open to all ages
rain or shine, the tour is on!

 for a list of  participating  growers

and map and special coupon info
click here

Art From Scrap Workshop Saturday April 7th

302 East Cota Street, Santa Barbara

10 am - noon

"Things with Wings"

Guest Artist - Jason Summers

all ages - $8/each

children 5 and younger must have adult supervision

for more information, click here

or call 805 884-0459

(all information and photos from artfromscrap website)

Spring at the SB Zoo

Bon Voyage, Bob, Jillian, and Family!

Our Asian small-clawed otter family is moving to Washington D.C.! Bob, Jillian, and their 11 pups, sponsored by Peter and Pieter Crawford-van Meeuwen, have delighted guests here at the beautiful Santa Barbara Zoo over the past three years. The otter family will be going to the AZA-accredited Smithsonian National Zoo within the next month. Although we have to say good-bye to them, we will say hello to others, as we have a new male and female Asian small-clawed otter in quarantine who, the Zoo hopes, will also be given the go-ahead to breed in the next few years.

While we and our local community will miss this animal family, we are excited for them to help inspire even more people to appreciate conservation of the natural world. Visit soon and wish them well!

Introducing . . . Emmett!

The countdown has begun! The Zoo's newest train engine Emmett, sponsored by the Duncan Family and Rusty's Pizza Parlors, will soon be chugging his way around the Zoo.

In honor of Emmett's arrival, we have created Emmett's Conductors Club. This is fun way to learn more about the Zoo's trains and help keep them "choo-chooing" for many more years.

As a member of this exclusive club, you'll receive an invitation to a special welcome event with a behind-the-scenes look at Emmett, appearance in the club photo at the train station, a train fact sheet, an official Conductors Club button, and more! For more information, contact Joey Corazza at (805) 962-5339, ext. 110.

Information and photo directly from the Zoo to You Newsletter.

to sign up for the Zoo News

Santa Barbara Courthouse Tower Clock Rings for first time!

With the nearing completion of the Bisno Schall Clock Gallery, the Seth Thomas Tower Clock at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse will ring the courthouse bell for the first time ever.

The Clock Team will be testing the new bell system that will be activated every quarter-hour by the Seth Thomas Tower Clock. In the past, the tower bells have been generated by an electronic carillon system that was not connected to the actual clock. So oftentimes when the chimes would play, it would not match the time on clock dial.

All of that has been solved by Bryan Mumford of Mumford MicroSystems, who has been volunteering his time to work on the new electronic system for the Santa Barbara Courthouse Clock. Mumford has obtained the bell sounds from the UCSB Storke Tower carillon system with the help of acoustical engineers at UCSB. Magnetic micro switches have been custom made and installed on the Seth Thomas Tower Clock that when triggered at the appropriate time, will instruct the electronics which bell sound to play and in what sequence.

The conversion of the Santa Barbara Courthouse Clock Room into a gallery of time is nearly completion. The project has been funded entirely by donations from two Santa Barbara families whose interest in timekeeping has motivated their yearlong restoration of the Santa Barbara Courthouse Seth Thomas Tower.

The project is expected to be completed next month. It will be available to the public through tours guided by the Courthouse Docent Council by this summer.

for details on the Bisno Schall Gallery Clock Room, click here

(information from an article in Noozhawk by Rodney Barker, County Courthouse Representative).  To subscribe to this outstanding local online newsletter go to  www.Noozhawk.com or click here to be immediately linked

(information from Noozhaw, photos from Courthouse website).