San Luis Obispo

Tuesday, December 9, 2014
San Luis Obispo is a ten minute drive from our campsite along Highway #101 North.

San Luis Obispo was founded in 1772 by Spanish Franciscan Junípero Serra. San Luis Obispo is one of California's oldest communities. The city, locally referred to as San Luis, SLO, or SLO Town (as its county is also referred to as SLO) is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County and is home to California Polytechnic State University. The population was 45, 119 at the 2010 census.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Polytechnic_State_University
http://www.visitslo.com

The next four photos are from Mission Plaza. The Mission Church is to the left of the shrubs.

                                                     

                                     You can see the Mission building through the trees.

The following photos are from the museum inside the mission building.

                           

 About the Chumash people:

Tar in the abalone shell was collected on the beach and used for waterproofing a canoe or "tormol" in the Chumash language.

Large, shallow basin metates and handstones (manos) were used to grind small wild seeds for food.

                                     This grinding stone was used for making acorn flour.

http://www.santaynezchumash.org/history.html

The Mission gardens:

http://www.missiontour.org/sanluisobispo/index.htm

The following photos are from our walking tour. The visitor's center provided us with a map.

                                      Chinese pioneer, On Wong, known locally as Ah Louis        
                            http://www.historyinslocounty.org/Ah%20Louis%20Store.htm

                                                http://www.thepalmtheatre.com/about-us

The park commemorates the contributions of the Chinese laborers who settled along the creek in the mid-1870s http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1476&context=pao_pr

Kundert Medical Building--Frank Lloyd Wright design:

The building was closed so we walked around to the back and looked through the glass. From the patio, see above photo, there is a great view of the creek.

A man in the parking lot waiting for his appointment noticed our interest in this building.  He is from Wisconsin, Wright's home state where Wright designed many buildings.

http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2011/06/frank-lloyd-wright-design-in-san-luis-obispo/

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

                  Carnegie Library now History Center of San Luis Obispo County (closed on Tuesday)

                                View from the bridge of the walking paths along the creek