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Tulare Inn Memories

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Tulare Dust

This was a walk down Memory Lane for me. Go to WalterWorld to see the photos of the Tulare Inn Coffee Shop and Motel which Hoot Perry foundered and ran for many years in Tulare, California. Mom and Dad(Amanda and Hoot)Perry were given an award by the California Restarant Association for their 50 years in the business. Our parents were married for 63 years, had seven children and 15 grandchildren.

Here are the comments on the photos

Once "The best cup of coffee on 99", Perry's Coffee Shop on Paige Avenue has seen some 40 years slip past it.

This ad from a 1965 Vacationland magazine served as a heads-up to those who travelled North or South on the 99 in route to Walt's little park in Anaheim:

Next door, the Tulare Inn soldiers on as a forlorn ambassador of a time that was...

Where was once a neatly kept lawn, only dried chaff remains on exhibit:

A refreshing pool now hosts only echoes from the past...

"The Tulare dust, in a farm boy's nose...wondering where the freight train goes.

Standin' in a field by the railroad track, cursin' the strap on my cotton sack.

I can see Mom and Dad with shoulders low, both of them pickin' on a double row.

They do it for a livin', because they must...that's life like it is in the Tulare Dust..."

---Merle Haggard---
Posted by walterworld at 10/20/2007 12:46:00 AM
Labels: perry's coffee shop, tulare, vacationland