Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission When we were in Sacramento recently to visit a sick relative my wife made an interesting observation. She noted that in the past we take the good times for granted while we reserve our sharpest and fondest memories for the pratfalls. She said this revelation came to her because of an incident in Sacramento when she was a young women. She was being driven down Freeport Boulevard when the drover, another relative, had the...
Three downtown businesses have been awarded façade grants by Main Street Tehachapi for improvements made to their businesses or buildings. The checks totaling $9,000 were awarded on Monday, July 17 for work recently completed. Although the grants required matching funds, each of the businesses expenses more than exceeded the maximum of $3,000 per business allowed under the grant program. Sheridan's Consignment Shop has expanded into an additional location in the 200 block of Tehachapi...
Tehachapi Museum and Errea House 'Art on the Porch' featuring Jon Hammond "Art on the Porch" continues in August with a First Friday display of cowboy, ranching, farming, and outdoor items on the porch at the Errea House from 5 to 8 p.m. Jon Hammond will be the featured guest and will bring some items from his collection of cowboy and farming related items he has collected from the Tehachapi area. He will also be telling stories and answering questions about Tehachapi's ranching and agrarian...
Tehachapi's second major truck stop is due to open this year as seasoned traveling crews drive construction of the Pilot Flying J Travel Center toward completion. "They are due to open in October," Tehachapi City Manager Greg Garrett told The Loop. "We have inspectors out there three times a day." Local contractors are hired for certain jobs, Garrett said, while the corporate core team takes the lead. The Pilot construction workers are staying in local hotels, he said, and – as it is s...
Treasure Trove featuring artist Christi Friesen On Friday Evening, July 7, Tehachapi Treasure Trove will celebrate First Friday from 5-8 p.m. A make and take to bake experience has been scheduled with Christi Friesen, internationally known polymer clay artist and author of a number of polymer Clay how to books. Come join Christi and have some fun making a glow-in-the-dark ghoulie to take home and bake. Christi will supply the materials. Enjoy our usual food, wine, good conversation and laughter...
For June 2 First Friday, two new exhibits will open at the Tehachapi Museum. First is a collection of some of the most beautiful and expensive menus ever produced in America and created by Tehachapi resident Gene Stirm. It includes the menu from the Edwardian Room that Gene did for Donald Trump and seen in several films including Concerning Henry and Big Business. Also, included is the Pagoda menu, one of the most expensive printed menus ever produced. Several of the menus will be shown with...
In 2012, the City of Tehachapi introduced a sponsorship program that allowed businesses, organizations, families or individuals to sponsor an American flag in downtown Tehachapi. The sponsorship program, known as the "Adopt-A-Flag" program, gives Tehachapi and its residents an opportunity to show off their pride and patriotism for America. The City has approximately 100 decorative light posts on Tehachapi Boulevard, Green Street, "F" Street, Curry, Robinson, and the Mill Street corridor right...
Tehachapi Museum featuring a permanent wave machine Just in time for Mother's Day the Tehachapi Museum is offering on First Friday only, selected pieces of jewelry at a 30% discount. All hammered aluminum, also known as poor man's silver, will be discounted 20% on May 5. Both items make great gifts. On First Friday visit the Tehachapi Museum's newest exhibit featuring a permanent wave machine, circa 1920s to 1930s. Included in the new display are numerous other items from 1900 to 1930s designed...
The Friends of the Tehachapi Depot (FOTD), a volunteer non-profit group that manages the Tehachapi railroad depot and museum, has proposed the construction of a viewing platform overlooking the railroad Loop. The proposed platform would be built adjacent to the two historical markers that stand on a curve of Tehachapi Woodford Road, five miles from Keene and seven miles west of Tehachapi. "It's such a beautiful site," Keith Sackewitz, vice president of the Friends of the Tehachapi Depot and...
First Fridays have become a popular event of fun, refreshments, hospitality and shopping at all the participating venues. Gallery 'N' Gifts will be featuring Youth Art. Gallery 'N' Gifts is located at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. (See article on this page.) Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 East Tehachapi Boulevard, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Featured artists will be April Heller and Meagan Bower (see article on this page). Come see what is happening and join the fun, food, wine, conversation, and music...
Some of my earlier memories from the 1930s was Tehachapi's 4th of July FREE Barbecue! It was taken for granted that everyone would be in the City Park and have a wonderful meal that included beef prepared in deep pit style cooking where the meat is slow cooked for 24 hours in an underground pit. Word spreads fast when the term "free" is included and people from near and far came; some as far as Los Angeles. Our small community, in the 1930s, had a population of a scant one thousand souls...
When South Street Digital owner Lydia Chaney walked into Tehachapi City Hall with two cardboard boxes on March 15, the city's Economic Development Coordinator Michelle Vance whooped and ran to open one of the boxes. She triumphantly held up a newly printed colorful tri-fold brochure. "It's the trail map! The mountain bike trails! The Tehachapi Mountain Trail Association (TMTA) brochure is a guide map of winding, sometimes angular loops of pathway that mountain bikers and other volunteers...
The weather web site mountainbase.com, based at Oak Knolls in Golden Hills, reports that the total rainfall for the first two months of 2017 at that site measured 9.52 inches. The rainfall came during two major storms, one on Jan. 5 and another on Feb., 17. The heavy storms damaged the dirt roads of eastern Sand Canyon, leaving them eroded, severely creviced and impassable. As they have done before, the residents worked together to fix the roads, which now are in good shape. They attacked the...
There was a question asked of me, recently, during one of our First Friday evenings at the local Museum. The question: "When did Tehachapi first install electric lights?" The answer, of course, is 1915. I didn't elaborate as the conversation turned in another direction. The best part was not given and the person who inquired left with only the date and no more interesting facts. I was given that information from Grace Errea, herself, who had lived in the Errea House with her parents and...
First Fridays have become a popular event of fun, refreshments, hospitality and shopping at all the participating venues. Gallery ‘N’ Gifts will be featuring artist Anna Dohnke during the month of March. Gallery ‘N’ Gifts is located at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. (See article on this page.) Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 East Tehachapi Boulevard, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Featuring an ode to Women’s History Month (see article on this page). Come see what is happening and join the fun, food, wine, con...
First Fridays have become a popular event of fun, refreshments, hospitality and shopping at all the participating venues. Gallery 'N' Gifts will be featuring local photographers. Gallery 'N' Gifts is located at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 East Tehachapi Boulevard, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Guests are invited to paint a letter for the large sign on the front of our building. Come see what is happening and join the fun, foo...
On Friday Evening, Jan. 6, Tehachapi Treasure Trove will celebrate First Friday from 5-8 p.m. The eatured artist will be Cynthia Aronson, creator of handmade rosaries and rosary bracelets. A little over a year ago a priest asked Cynthia if she could make rosaries. She made several and he purchased five of them. She then started getting requests from friends and relatives. She has now created more than 50 rosaries in addition to her rosary bracelets. She enjoys selecting the right beads to...
Road construction update for Dec. 2016...
Isabel Cortez Cervantes was a well known and respected citizen of this community until her death in 1991 at age eighty-seven. In 1914 when she was only eleven her father, Odilon Cortez, immigrated his family from the small Mexican village of Cosio in Aguascalientes, to Tehachapi. Much lumber was being taken from the Cummings Mountain area and sent to Los Angeles and the work was good. Another vital reason for the move was the regular raids on villages in their area by the notorious bandit,...
Vikki Montegna and her family took over the tack business as of Nov. 1. Former owners Jill Nelson, her husband, John, and friend Al Anders, said it has been a fun six years. "We started selling new and used tack at swap meets and other outdoor venues," Jill said. "People kept asking me where our store was located. So we decided to open one." The tack shop opened in February 2010 on South Street, but outgrew that location a short time later. It moved to its present spot at 117 S. Mill Street,...
Robin Silva has been working with glass for about three years. On a trip to the Midwest she discovered that an aunt worked with fused glass and an uncle worked with stain glass. She loved their pieces and decided to learn herself. At the time she had just become an empty nester and was looking for something to keep her busy and creative. She went to visit a stained glass supply store in the LA area and enjoyed talking to the folks so much that she enrolled in classes. The rest is history. As an...
Gallery ‘N’ Gifts will be showcasing Mark Pestana.Gallery ‘N’ Gifts is located at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 East Tehachapi Boulevard, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Featured artists will be Robin Silva and Therese Vogan, creators of beautiful glass and mosaics. (see article on this page). Come see what is happening and join the fun, food, wine and conversation. Oak Tree Art Antiques Etc Located 102 W. Tehachapi Blvd. (across from The Depot) broad variety of items, refresh...
Sometimes a person’s memories come in snatches of information and when telling a story it’s hard to know where to begin. Occasionally someone will come into the local museum and say they have heard of a café in town that has lots of local, historical photos of Tehachapi. “Sure, Kelcy’s Café !” I tell them. That’s an easy question. Stepping back several decades back to the forties, will find this writer, as a teenager from good old Tehachapi High School, entering the portals of the café when it...
First Fridays have become a popular event of fun, refreshments, hospitality and shopping at all the participating venues. Gallery 'N' Gifts will be hosting a Costume contest. Gallery 'N' Gifts is located at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 East Tehachapi Boulevard, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Meet our teachers, see their work and learn about the classes they offer. Come see what is happening and join the fun, food, wine and conversation. Oak Tree Art Antiques Etc Located 102...
Links for Life, Tehachapi, was started in October 2009 as a support group for Breast Cancer Survivors by Mary VanBlakeShoaf. Mary was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2007. In her quest for support through this trying time she found Links for Life in Bakersfield, California. The organization helps women under 40 years old by providing them with free mammograms, ultrasounds, biopsy, wigs and a variety of other support. It also provides wigs and support for women with Breast Cancer over 40 years ol...
