Fun all weekend with Cruise Nite,
SP Beautiful, First Sunday at SP Airport

May 01, 2015
Santa Paula News

There will be three ways to celebrate community this weekend with an array of free events including one where you can roll up your sleeves and help beautify Santa Paula.

Friday, May 1 is Cruise Nite where from 5 p.m. the streets of the historic Downtown are closed, but each curb sports a classic, antique or vintage pre-1975 vehicle.

Lucky Sons is the band to hear this Friday at Cruise Nite where East Main Street is closed from 10th to 7th for the fun; the band will start shortly after 5 p.m. playing at the foot of the iconic Odd Fellows Lodge and Clock Tower.

To some Cruise Nite is family night while others consider it the perfect date night…either way there are plenty of great restaurants to find a tasty meal or refreshing snack many offering Cruise Nite specials.

Don’t forget to stroll down side streets where the overflow of Cruise Nite vehicles park and browse in the many shops that stay open late on Cruise Nite. 

And don’t go home without the Cruise Nite T-shirt featuring artwork by Wendell Dowling, each month depicting a special vehicle that takes part in the event.

Cruise Nite lasts until dusk but even after the rumble of mufflers grows dim many stay and continue to enjoy all that the Downtown offers.

Come Saturday morning grab gloves, planting tools, brooms and dustpans and be prepared to have fun at the Santa Paula Beautiful Cleanup Day where you can help in the effort to rack up a national prize for one of the state’s most historic towns.

Volunteers are asked to meet at the Gazebo (East Santa Barbara Street and Mill Street just west of 10th Street) at 8 a.m. for a morning of beautification! 

America in Bloom Santa Paula Chapter is urging everyone to join in the beautification effort that will include planting flowers on Main Street and creating a succulent garden right outside City Council Chambers at City Hall. Volunteers will also clean out weeds and pickup trash on Main Street and Harvard Boulevard.

The Santa Paula Beautiful Cleanup Day is coming just a week before judges for the national American in Bloom competition come to town to spend several days of seeing the sights that make the city unique.

Last year the local AIB chapter won Honorable Mention in several categories as well as a Community Champion Prize for Dianne Davis, who with her husband Dudley Davis, founded the Santa Paula AIB.

For the First Sunday of the Month history comes alive at Santa Paula Airport where from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the famed Aviation Museum of Santa Paula will be open for visitors…and car lovers will have plenty of eye candy to enjoy!

The “Chain of Hangars” — including Number One that tells the history of the founding of Santa Paula Airport in 1930 — will welcome visitors for a fascinating look at aviation and collections.

There is no charge to visit the museum’s hangars that visitors can stroll through; except for Number One each hangar is privately owned and houses vintage aircraft and collections of memorabilia, vehicles and antiques.  

The Young Eagles program offers free plane rides for youth (ages 8 to 17); contact Neil Fowler at (805) 647-6994 information and reservations.

This Super Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. will feature the Ferrari Car Club owners displaying their fabulous vehicles; there will also be three RV 12 airplanes displayed and a flight demonstration for the public to watch and learn more about what this amazing type of aircraft can do.  

Santa Paula Airport is widely recognized around the world for its antique, classic and experimental aircraft as well as celebrated for its climate and its friendliness. 

Be sure to visit Flight 126 Café while at the airport for down home good cooking or “go into town” and visit any of the fine restaurants Santa Paula is famed for.

Santa Paula Airport is located at 800 Santa Maria Street, between Palm and 10th Street exits of the 126 Freeway.  Rain (like that is ever going to happen!) cancels the event.  

For more information call (805) 525-1109 or visit www.aviationmuseumofsantapaula.org 





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