Friday, August 30, 2013

SONOMA COUNTY WUNDERHAMMER

I ATTENDED THIS EVENT AT THE DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT AND SAW SOME RAILROAD EVENTS,  SOME EXHIBITS WERE OF DIFFERENT OF DIFFERENT RAILROAD CARS THAT WERE OF COACHES, HAND RAILS, A BICYCLE RAIL CAR AND VARIOUS OTHER STEAM POWERED.  I LEARNED FROM SMART THAT THE TRAINS ARE TRYING TO BUILD A RAILROAD SYSTEM FROM MARIN COUNTY THROUGH SONOMA COUNTY BY 2016,  THE TRAINS WILL HAVE ERGONOMIC SEATS SOME OF THE RAILS HAVE BEEN BUILT HERE.  THE ANNOUNCER WAS VERY LOUD THEY HAD A NATURAL HISTORY EXHIBIT OF SOME NONNATIVE ANIMALS AND SKULLS OF ALLIGATORS. 
THEY HAD PEOPLE DRESSED IN ANTIQUE CLOTHING IN STRANGE HATS AND EYEGLASSES AND OLD TIME PARASOLS.  SOME OF THE BOOTHS WERE FULL OF HANDMADE SOAPS, SOME HAD ESSENTIAL SPRAYS.  THEY HAD MANY TYPES OF FOOD AND DRINKS.  IT WAS A FESTIVE ACTIVITY. 

THEY EVEN HAD A HYPNOTISTS FOR CHILDREN.  THERE WERE SEVERAL FOLKS THAT I MET THERE.  THEY HAD THREE TO 5 BANDS THAT HAD JAZZ  AND ROCK.  THE CHURCH BAND WAS A YOUNG BAND THAT HAD SOME FOLKS PLAYING TUBA AS WELL AS ACCORDION AND TRUMPETS.  ONE GUY HAD A MACHINE THAT WAS FROM THE 1800'S.  THE PRESS WAS FOR MAKING JEWELRY.  J=HE CUT COINS INTO SHAPES FOR JEWELRY.  SOME FOLKS HAD BOOTHS OF CROCHETED HATS , PARASOLS, SOAPS, AND DOLLS. ETC.

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