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Downtown Events
OCTOBER 2022 27 Stroll Through History downtown events
Special to The Enterprise
There will be a lot to see downtown on Stroll Day. To start the day, the Kiwanians will be serving their famous Kiwanis breakfast of pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and bananas – FREE – beginning at 8 a.m. in the Plaza. Main Street will be closed from First to Third streets. There will be four antique firetrucks on display, as well as Model T and Model A antique cars.
Yolo County and WWI exhibit
Yolo County Administration Building, 625 Court St.
The County Administration Building is hosting an exhibit on Yolo County and WW1. Docent-led tours through the exhibit will be held on the hour from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each tour lasts 40 minutes. Anyone is free to walk through the exhibition on their own.
Staff from the Yolo County Archives will be on hand to answer questions about Woodland’s history and also to help anyone doing research on their historic house or Yolo County history. Cookies and lemonade will be provided.
Lil Porter, the Smallest Theatre in the Wild West and Museum of Local History
Porter Building 329 College St. 11 a.m. to noon
Visit the tiny museum of local history including Woodland movie houses, Porter family, Dead Cat Alley and Old China Town and the future home of Opryolo. Occupancy is limited to four at a time. Presented by Woodland Parlor 30, Native Sons of the Golden West docents Dani Schaad and Barbara Cotter. Lynne Gough/Courtesy photo Tilly Alcartra at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, 1919, taken by Lynne Gough, author ofAsa and the Holstein Queen.
Asa and the Holstein Queen, Tilly Alcartra
Tilly Alcartra was Yolo County’s most famous milk cow. She was not only a local celebrity, but an internationally-renowned milk production champion who set world records from 1914-1920. Learn about the life and times of Yolo County’s Holstein Queen (also to be celebrated at TILLYfest, Bluegrass Woodland on Nov. 5). Presented by Woodland Parlor 30, Native Sons of the Golden West docents Rich Westphal and Ellie Dolan.
Porter Theatre, 1945, showing the location of Lil Porter, 2022. Photo by Richard Mann published in David Wilkinson’sbook “Hollywood Comes to Woodland”(available from Yolo County Historical Society).
