COMMENT 158032
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2011-03-26 08:37 AM |
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Great article--however, it is the Pacific Surfliner that serves Santa Barbara (not Sunliner). Plus, you can get 20% discount on the Surfliner by booking your tickets through the website SantaBarbaraCarFree dot org.
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COMMENT 158062
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2011-03-26 10:01 AM |
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The Coast Starlight stops in SB and goes from Los Angeles to Portland and Seattle. We took it from SB to San Francisco last year. About 8 hours. Train all the way to Oakland and then a short Amtrak bus ride into San Fracisco. Convenient drop off points in SF. Highly recommended. Beautiful scenery.
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LIZTISH340
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2011-03-26 10:49 AM |
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Three of us took the Surfliner to San Diego for Thanksgiving. It was very comfortable. Biggest surprise was when we returned it cost only $12 for three days of parking! Get your ticket validated at the train station.
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EL BARBARENO
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2011-03-26 12:59 PM |
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What!!! Planted in 1959?? That Wikipedia article you are getting your information from is pure fictiion. The Moreton Bay Fig tree is the original planted - according to legend - on July 4, 1876 at 201 State Street (the NW corner of State and Yanonali). A year later 16 year-old Adeline Crabb and her mother Hannah Crabb dug it up and moved it to the SW corner of Chapala and Montecito Streets. It would appear your writer miskeyed the 5 for a 2 on the date for the SP Depot. It was built in 1905 and opened in January 1906.
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LOURAY
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2011-03-26 04:00 PM |
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Before anyone took up residence among the roots of that tree I used to visit it with my grandmother and dream of running away to burrow in and hide from everything from big bad wolves to ugly monsters. Later, my grandmother and I took my own daughter to the tree and stood a safe distance from the tracks while a non-stop metal monster blew grit into our hair and faces. "Our" tree was at that time largely unoccupied and not yet obscured by highway development.
I know for darn sure that if anything tragic had happened to that tree in 1959 it would have been a community event on a grand scale, with plenty of photos still available in the SBNP morgue and chunks of the corpse still in ownership here and there about the community.
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COMMENT 158157
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2011-03-26 04:38 PM |
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I planted the seeds,12, in 1958 with seeds given too me by the Southern Pacific Railroad for the present Moreton Bay Fig tree at the Santa Barbara train station, because the old tree was diseased. With the leftover Moreton Bay Fig seeds I planted the seeds for the Moreton Bay Fog trees at Alameda Plaza and Cottage Hospital and Music Academy Of The West. There are more Moreton Bay Fig trees that I planted the seed or seeds for but with seeds that I purchased after those ran out.
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COMMENT 158233P
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2011-03-27 09:38 AM |
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El Barbareno is totally right. 1959. Pfft!
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FLICKA
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2011-03-27 10:38 AM |
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Does anyone really believe the Morton Bay grew that big since only 1958? Where does this kind of bogus information come from? My children played around the huge roots in the early 1960s. My mother, born 1912, said when she was a little girl the gypsies used to camp under the tree.
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COMMENT 158285
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2011-03-27 12:31 PM |
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State Street is east of the depot -- actually, a bit northeast. Not west. The fig tree is west.
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SBALAX
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2011-03-27 01:06 PM |
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This poorly written and poorly researched article is why I take most "information" and "fact" found on Wikipedia with a grain of salt. While we're at it, the "Private" railroad car now on the spur was actually a Southern Pacific Business Car used by executives as they traveled the system on company business.
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COMMENT 158361
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2011-03-27 05:24 PM |
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the buses park too close to automated ticket machine>ya cant hear it speak. screw ya up.
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COMMENT 272464P
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2012-04-18 08:45 AM |
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Enjoy fantastic scenery and the comfort of travel on a vintage 1949 Pullman club car! Vintage Rail Car Day Trip Adventures from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo hosted by the South Coast Railroad Museum. Call Terry at 805-680-0397 Future Trip Dates are: Sunday, May 6th and Saturday, August 18th!
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COMMENT 272464P
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2012-04-18 08:46 AM |
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Enjoy fantastic scenery and the history and comfort of travel on a vintage 1949 Pullman club car! Vintage Rail Car Day Trip Adventures from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo sponsored by the South Coast Railroad Museum. Call Terry at 805-680-0397 Future Trip Dates are: Sunday, May 6th and Saturday, August 18th!
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COMMENT 272464P
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2012-07-25 07:47 AM |
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ENJOY VINTAGE RAILCAR DAYTRIPS FROM SANTA BARBARA AND GOLETA TO SAN LUIS OBISPO, ROUNDTRIP. AUGUST 4 AND THEN AGAIN ON AUGUST 5TH.
CALL: 805-680-0397
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