SYV Historical Society Museum
 

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The Valley Room, Pioneer Room, Jeannette Lyons

Farm Annex, Blacksmith Shop,

 Carriage House

Museum Store

Indian Room, West Room, Courtyard

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THE VALLEY ROOM

Showcased here are each of the five towns in the Santa Ynez Valley.  Also exhibited are items from the narrow gauge Pacific Coast Railway, which once came into Los Olivos from San Luis Obispo (1887 - 1934).  A Children's Corner has old-fashioned dolls, toys, and a rare wooden Schoenhut circus.  The Music Area displays pump organs, historic phonographs, a piano that came around  Cape Horn in 1840, and other musical instruments.  A turn of the century office shows antique typewriters, Dictaphones, and the like.  Military memorabilia commerative of  World Wars I and II.   The art of spinning is represented by a "Walking Wheel".  

More Photos of Valley Room

 A colorful backdrop curtain from the old Los Olivos Liberty Theatre gives a glimpse of commercial advertising in the Santa Ynez Valley c. 1915.

PIONEER ROOM

This room is divided into three areas, a kitchen, bedroom, and parlor-living room, reminiscent of a late 19th century home.  Most of the articles on display come from local ranches and pioneer homes.  Included are period furniture, a parlor organ, milk separator, butter churns, wood-burning cook stove, many old kitchen utensils, a treadle sewing machine, and lovely quilts.

JEANNETTE LYONS ROOM

This large, stately room features changing displays of period clothes from the Historical Society's extensive collection of clothing and accessories from the 1870s through the 1960s.  Antique cabinets contain a collection of fine china and crystal, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries.  More Photos

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