Story by Mark & Sharon Dominguez; Photos by Paul Duncan and Mark Wing

After breakfast at The Owl Café we had a short day tour arranged by our current club president, Mark Dominguez with the hopes of getting our cars out and driven.  Mark and Sharon Dominguez in their 1927 Touring; Mark Wing in his 1925 Touring; Don Mitchell in his 127 Tudor and Paul and Marilyn Duncan in their 1927 Roadster Pickup along with Kirk and Susan Peterson and Sharron Geilenfeldt and Rita-Loy Simmons (who drove their modern cars) all headed up to the east mountains to Tinkertown Museum. We had a great drive, which was not as hot as expected. We explored the wonderful little carvings of Ross Ward.

Tinkertown is a folk art museum featuring thousands of miniature, wood-carved creations of Ross Ward.

It took Ross Ward over 40 years to carve, collect, and lovingly construct what is now Tinkertown Museum. His miniature wood-carved figures were first part of a traveling exhibit that he drove to county fairs and carnivals in the 1960s and ’70s. Today over 50,000 glass bottles form rambling walls that surround a 22-room museum. Wagon wheels, old fashioned store fronts, and wacky western memorabilia make Tinkertown’s exterior as much as a museum as the wonders within.

There is even a Sail Boat at the museum!

We had a nice drive there and back, with no break downs on any of the vehicles.  Club members spent around 1.5 hours going thru the museum and gift shop.