After picking up our pastries (aka )food souvenirs from the Candied Apple Pastry Company, we walked across the street to check out the Julian Pioneer Museum...
since we didn't see it two years ago. I figured, we're in Julian, so let's learn about Julian, right?
Admission is $3 each which is just about right since this isn't a huge Balboa Park type museum. Although the building is more than 100 years old, the museum in its current state has been around for nearly 60 years.
Photography wasn't allowed but if you go on their website, you can see the different kinds of exhibits on their sidebar. There are so many things jampacked in that small building that it's hard to focus on what to look at first. There are many artifacts from the Gold Rush days, old dolls, clothing, farming tools, documents, old photographs and such.
Even though you weren't supposed to take any pictures, this is the ONLY one I surreptitiously took inside the museum. TCand her friend were a bit freaked by this mannequin sporting these horrific and dangerous looking "curlers". WTH...That looks kinda scary and uncomfortable. I wonder what your hair looked like after all those metal clamps were removed? Fried? I wonder what this had to do with Julian since there wasn't a placard to explain its significance.
I'm just glad I only have to deal with my flat iron and not THAT contraption!
Back on Main Street, we ventured into a souvenir shop that was full of tourist trap items. Stuff that I would never buy like country decorations, quilts, toys, and other cutesy folksy stuff that just isn't me. That gift store was next to the Julian Town Hall...
I forgot to mention in my previous post that the historic Julian Hotel was founded and by Albert Robinson (a former slave) and his wife Margaret. They were known for their hospitality and their cooking, which must have been quite nice for the hotel guests.
Now the girls wanted to go back to the first candy shop from earlier that morning. This time The Candy Basket was already open.
They also had a wide selection of candy both vintage and new as well as pop culture items like these lunchboxes.
So much candy!
The cactus candy sounded interesting but not enough for me to want to buy a package.
The girls both got bags of tiny sized jawbreakers. They look like pellets and they change color when they dissolve in your mouth.
Julian Pioneer Museum
2811 Washington Street
Julian, CA 92065
(760) 765-0227
julianpioneermuseum.org
Julian Town Hall
2129 Main Street
(760) 765-1857
For more about the town of Julianm, please refer to this link www.julianca.com
The Candy Basket
2116 Main Street
(760) 765-0785
There is no website, but here is their FB page and the mostly positive yelp reviews
Previous visit to the Candy Basket:
November 2011
There would be one more small stop before we actually left for lunch...
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