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Unfortunate Incident at Castle Rock
In 1909, the automobile was emerging as a focus of interest
for individuals, communities and entire countries all over the
world. Santa Barbara was no exception, and in August of that
year, a forward-looking enterprise in Hope Ranch, just north
of the town, was making plans to compete on a grand scale. They
were sure to succeed – as long as nothing went wrong…
When Leontine’s young friend, eleven-year-old Patrick Denman,
makes a grisly discovery at Castle Rock, a popular recreation
spot on the Santa Barbara shoreline, he, along with Leontine
and her tenant and friend Daisy Merrie, do their best to unravel
what happened on the beach, and what it might have to do with
the revolutionary new technology under development in Hope Ranch.
The second installment of the popular “Santa Barbara History
Mysteries” series, featuring actual early 20th century Santa
Barbara resident, Leontine Birabent.
$14.95
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More than anything, A Murder at the Potter Hotel
is about a time and place - Santa Barbara, California in 1908.
That year saw the arrival of the Great White Fleet, having been
selected as one stop on the global mission of good will.
Joining the community in city-wide celebration, piano teacher
Leontine Birabent, her young friend Patrick
and Daisy, her tenant, are unwittingly drawn into a web of corporate
crime and military deception that ends with someone dead. Though
far from detectives, the three are, nevertheless, in the best
position to determine who might be responsible – hopefully before
the ships sail on.
152 pages with map and photos, softcover
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COMING SOON
The Great Santa Barbara Earthquake - the
Disaster That Built a City
Coming a Little Later!
History Under Your Nose |
It may look like Santa Barbara’s red-tiled roofs
and white stucco walls and buildings have been here forever...
but who knows what secrets lurk beneath those facades? Santa Barbara
historian Neal Graffy does! And through the images and text of
Santa Barbara Then and Now, layers of time are peeled
back to reveal an earlier Santa Barbara of many different designs
and uses.
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This is the only book that dares to pose the question "Has
every building in Santa Barbara been a restaurant at least once?"
Santa Barbara Then and Now
is 160 pages in full color.
SoftCover Edition $19.95 |
In 1851 the Town Council of Santa Barbara appointed
a committee to apply names to the fifty-two new streets being
created from “the front of the Mission Gardens to the sea and
from hill to hill on each side” as a result of the survey of Salisbury
Haley.
Unlike other towns whose streets bore the unimaginative A - Z,
numbers, trees or names of presidents, they gave names to our
streets that portrayed the geography and botany of our town, honored
the Chumash, early settlers, governors, and showed a distinct
sense of humor and in some cases, delightful sarcasm.
Street Names of Santa Barbara
52 pages $9.95 |
Historic Santa Barbara is a coffee table
size book written for the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. It’s
chock full of photos and text covering the history of Santa Barbara
from the original inhabitants, the Chumash Indians, all the way
up through the devastating Jesusita fire of 2009. The second half
of the book profiles a number of Santa Barbara businesses, churches
and non-profits.
Historic Santa Barbara
208 pages. $49.95 |
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