{"id":3359,"date":"2011-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiebeaulac.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2011-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-nut-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/the-nut-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nut Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com\/cathy_of_california\/2011\/03\/nut-tree-hibby-horse-plans-circa-late-1960s.html\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com\/cathy_of_california\/2011\/03\/nut-tree-hibby-horse-plans-circa-late-1960s.html');\">this<\/a> post which took me to <a href=\"http:\/\/cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com\/cathy_of_california\/2006\/11\/nut_tree.html\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com\/cathy_of_california\/2006\/11\/nut_tree.html');\">this<\/a> post, which then totally took me down memory lane.\u00a0 I grew up in Northern California and my dad was a pilot, so I grew up flying with my dad in small airplanes.\u00a0 We&#8217;d fly to almost anywhere that had an airstrip, especially if there was cool, kid-friendly stuff within walking distance from the airport.\u00a0 The Nut Tree in Vacaville was one- there was a little airstrip literally steps away.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one destination I remember going on more than one occasion and loving- from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm');\">these photos<\/a> you can see why! Granted these photos were taken about twenty years before I went there, but honestly it hadn&#8217;t changed too much by the 80&#8217;s. These photos reflect my memories of the place. There was a restaurant, toy shop, sweets shop, a train, and the feeling like you were at playground for kids and grown-ups.\u00a0 Sad that the original is not around anymore&#8230; people didn&#8217;t know what they were missing.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com\/cathy_of_california\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com\/cathy_of_california\/');\">Cathy<\/a> for the reminder of this childhood favorite. Seriously, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm');\">these photos<\/a> to see exactly how awesome this place was.\u00a0 I appreciate the modernism so much more now than I did then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cathyincalifornia_nuttreeshopinteriorblog.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cathyincalifornia_nuttreeshopinteriorblog.jpg\" title=\"vacaville, the nut tree, kids, leisure, airplanes, fun, vintage, the look see\" alt=\"vacaville, the nut tree, kids, leisure, airplanes, fun, vintage, the look see\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"alameda_info_nut_tree_dining_room_pc_1984_b.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/alameda_info_nut_tree_dining_room_pc_1984_b.jpg\" title=\"vacaville, the nut tree, kids, leisure, airplanes, fun, vintage, the look see\" alt=\"vacaville, the nut tree, kids, leisure, airplanes, fun, vintage, the look see\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"alamedainfo_arriving_at_the_nut_tree_mailed_1960_nut_tree_california.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.alamedainfo.com\/nut_tree_CA.htm');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/alamedainfo_arriving_at_the_nut_tree_mailed_1960_nut_tree_california.jpg\" title=\"vacaville, the nut tree, kids, leisure, airplanes, fun, vintage, the look see\" alt=\"vacaville, the nut tree, kids, leisure, airplanes, fun, vintage, the look see\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across this post which took me to this post, which then totally took me down memory lane.\u00a0 I grew up in Northern California and my dad was a pilot, so I grew up flying with my dad in small airplanes.\u00a0 We&#8217;d fly to almost anywhere that had an airstrip, especially if there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,10,12,15,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}