{"product_id":"nut-tree-vacaville-1971","title":"Nut Tree, Vacaville 1971","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 1921 to 1996, the iconic Nut Tree in northern California was a roadside oasis loved by adults and children alike for its design aesthetic, delicious food and sense of fun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story began in 1855 when Josiah Allison left Iowa and settled with his family on land near Vacaville that would become the Nut Tree Ranch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe planted giant fig trees, and in 1860 also planted a single black walnut picked by his 12-year-old niece Sally Fox on her harrowing journey to California in 1858-60. Her father was killed by Mojave Indians in Arizona and Sally was seriously injured with an arrow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1921, when a heatwave made the family’s figs too ripe to sell to market, Josiah’s granddaughter Helen and her husband Edwin ‘Bunny’ Power set up a fruit stand under the by-now mature and shady walnut tree to sell fruit directly to customers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the following decades, the modest fruit stand grew into a high-end roadside destination, a concept that did not exist until the Nut Tree invented it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy 1961, the Nut Tree was serving as many as 2500 meals a day in its three dining rooms with customers clamoring for innovative fare made from scratch by an army of Chinese cooks for Americans accustomed to standard meat-and-potatoes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFavorite dishes included pineapple with marshmallow sauce, Chicken Almond, Beef and Tomato Chow Yuk and chess pie, a confection of walnuts, raisins and butterscotch. There was also the famous 49-way ice cream sundae.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnce fed, customers could peruse the extensive gift shop and children could play on giant wooden hobby horses or take rides on a miniature train to the Nut Tree Airport, a local air strip.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFamous visitors at the trend-setting Nut Tree included Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Bing Crosby and Shirley Temple. Queen Elizabeth II had lunch there in 1983 at the invitation of then-California Governor George Deukmejian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Nut Tree closed in 1996 after 75 years of operation. Memorabilia from this trend-setting Californian restaurant can be found at the Vacaville Museum. Diane Power Zimmerman, granddaughter of the founders Helen and Bunny Power, has also written a book about the Nut Tree, and its pioneering ideas about dining and hospitality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis menu image is from 1971.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson archival inks. 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