Petaluma's Theatre District is the place to be this Holiday Season. Shop downtown. Eat your greens. Watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ-Wx7D02g8 Make plans to attend the Festival of Trees Holiday tree lighting this Saturday! Don't you just LOVE this town? By the way, here are the Top 10 reasons [...]
My Dad drove a General's Jeep in WWII, third wave Normandy. It's in his book. Thanks Pop. And thanks to all our Vets. This video is for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIrm0lKiwx0 My bride Brenda and I were married on Veterans Day 41 years ago. Thank you Brenda. Thank you for this wonderful [...]
This angle face was plopped upon Petaluma Pete's piano bench by her mother where she immediately set to work banging away on the keys while wearing Petaluma Pete's hat, placed there by her father. Who is that mysterious child? I forgot to tip her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlclkgsAdp0 'Without music, life would [...]
Here's a Halloween video stab from the past. See it here: watch?v=tY0n9iycTu4 Also, did you see this great article from Katie? Click HERE. Did you know Petaluma's feed mill is the tallest building in Sonoma County? Did you know it towers above all those businesses north of Petaluma Blvd like a big, [...]
By simple definition, a defining moment would be ‘moments in our lives that define who we are’. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about such moments in my own life. Partly because, as I am getting older I am facing the realization that I have fewer of those ‘moments’ [...]
The good people at our Petaluma Visitor Center facilitate monthly city-wide marketing meetings in different locations around town. So far, two of my favorites were held inside Mrs. Grossman's Sticker Factory and the other inside the Seed Bank at the cornet of Washington and Petaluma Blvd. Last week, the meeting [...]
Our Petaluma Downtown Association recently threw a scarecrow-making party at Taps that resulted in more scarecrows in the windows of downtown merchants that you could shake a stake at. Come with us now to see the merchants who joined in the solidarity by displaying their scarecrows so shoppers could identify [...]
These good people braved the cold to come downtown and wish Petaluma Pete a happy birthday. First time Petaluma Pete ever got tipped for playing Happy Birthday to himself. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6ENRGKdK0 Sometimes it really would be great if we could reverse time and live moments like this over and over [...]
Dear old people: What was your age in 1966? That's when this song was released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8U6om0CUM8 Petaluma Pete was 16 years old. Special thanks to Viva Cocolat for letting Petaluma Pete hang out. :-) Also, did you see this great article from Katie? Click HERE. Did you know Petaluma's feed mill [...]
The annual Whiskerino event is going to be held at the Phoenix Theatre this year! This Saturday, September 5, rain or shine for sure! :-) Click HERE for details. Here is a vintage archive video from 2009, when it was held at Walnut Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wgCO-xo-JY Just another day in the [...]