The Roth Woodland

10/13/2024

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10/05/2024

STROLL THROUGH HISTORY
DOWNTOWN EVENT, October 12

Woodland Parlor 30 presents a FREE Woodland history event inside 617 Main Street (The House Dresser) – seating available. Starts at 9am.

“Dead Cat Alley and Old China Town”
9:00 to 9:30
Brief history of Dead Cat Alley (including 617 Main Street) and Old China Town in slides by Dino Gay. A warm up for Jack Din’s presentation.

“Jack Din and family stories of Tai Lee Laundry”
9:30 to 10:30
95 year-old Jack Din shares personal accounts of the family home and business on Dead Cat Alley (1925 to 1947). Jack was born on the alley in 1929.

https://strollthroughhistory.com/events/plaza-events/

11/12/2023

Eat at ANY Panda Express on Tuesday, November 14, to support the restoration of the historic Union Church of Dunnigan!

Raise money for Union Church of Dunnigan

09/28/2021

See you on Saturday!

09/28/2021

The House Dresser auction is NOW!

Woodland Antique Store Liquidation (by Sac Valley Auctions)

06/03/2021

FIRST FRIDAY ART & HISTORY WALK
JUNE 4, 6 to 8 at THE ROTH, 431 Main Street
Historic Downtown Woodland

Serving truth in local history and "Probably the Best Root Beer Floats in the Wild West!"

05/07/2021

FIRST FRIDAY ART & HISTORY WALK
TONIGHT! 6 to 8 at THE ROTH, 431 Main Street
Historic Downtown Woodland

Serving truth in local history and "Probably the Best Root Beer Floats in the Wild West!"

04/25/2021

THE ROTH IS OPEN MAY 7.....FIRST FRIDAY ART & HISTORY WALK!
431 Main Street / 444 Dead Cat Alley
Historic Downtown Woodland

This summer, during our First Friday open houses, Parlor 30 celebrates founders Frank and Gertrude Freeman and James McCauley who put Woodland on the map on July 5, 1861 – the real birthdate of our town!

YOU'RE INVITED to exhibitions of true and fantastic history – as far as we know it – on Friday, May 7, from 6 to 8 pm. Once again we'll be serving "Probably the Best Root Beer Floats in the Wild West!"

Learn about The Roth, Old China Town, the new Yolo County Fair Museum and the Union Church of Dunnigan with the YOLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY and the Native Sons of the Golden West, Woodland Parlor 30!

03/30/2021

GUESS WHERE? FIND OUT SATURDAY!

PART OF WOODLAND HISTORY TOURS, FEATURING OLD CHINA TOWN, APRIL 3

Free tours of the historic downtown Woodland will be offered on Saturday, April 3. The Woodland History Tours event – featuring Old China Town in Dead Cat Alley between Elm and College streets – is presented by Woodland Parlor 30, Native Sons of the Golden West and the Yolo County Historical Society (YCHS).

Kathy Harryman, president of YCHS, will talk about the rich history of "China Alley" from 9 to 10 am at 444 Dead Cat Alley at The Roth Warehouse, located behind The Roth building at 431 Main Street. Attendees will be shown the locations of many of the Chinese dwellings and stores that were in the alley from the 1880s to the 1940s.

There will be an open house at the event headquarters in The Roth Warehouse from 9 to noon. The Woodland Opera House will have an information table about the historic theater at Second & Main, also from 9 to noon. A tour of the newly renovated Plaza Building at 702 Main is scheduled from 10 to 11 and Woodland Gold & Silver will present a continuous postcard show at 619 Main during their regular open hours from 10 to 4. For those who enjoy tales from the other side, a half hour "Ghosts on the Block" tour will begin at 444 Dead Cat Alley at 11 am.

For more information about the free activities in the downtown on April 3, drop in at 444 Dead Cat Alley
on Woodland History Tours Day or visit facebook.com/WoodlandParlor30. Local history buffs are reminded to save the date for the 2021 Stroll Through History home tours and more free Woodland History Tours on Saturday, October 2.

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Pictured is the 1886 Sanborn Fire Insurance Company map that shows old China Town in China Alley/Dead Cat Alley (between Main and Court) extending from Elm to College in Woodland.