Comments on: Vintage Road Trip :: Going Nuts Over The Nut Tree

By: Julie L. Thompson

Julie L. Thompson — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:44:47 +0000

Wonderful NT article! I truly miss The Nut Tree…For years, my family would stop to & from Tahoe to have the yummy lunches! My fave was the tropical fruit plate and of course the beautiful orchid on top of the fruit! We’d all tear into the main building to get out of the horrible heat! lol.. I also loved to pick out a treat at the cute toy shop! The trolls and Steiff animals…Sad they had to get rid of this magical place…as well as my beloved Santa’s Village in Scott’s Valley and Frontier Village…Gone with the wind! Thanks again! XO Julie

By: Julie Thompson

Julie Thompson — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:00:18 +0000

LOVED this magical place…Gone with the wind…like my beloved Santa’s Village (Scott’s Valley, CA) and Frontier Village (SJ)..We would stop to & from Tahoe…Always looked forward to running from the awful heat into cool A/C paradise! Couldn’t wait to order my fave fruit plate with the little orchid! I cried when they tore it down…Cherished memories forever! XO

By: Margaret

Margaret — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:10:54 +0000

In reply to Helen. Thanks Helen for this wonderful history! What a story! The Nut Tree was a truly special place in the middle of what felt like nowhere. It just goes to show you how creative ideas can really take off, beginning with burying the doll and later with a trip to Denmark. I loved the colors and the distinct smell of the place. It might have had a woody aroma-hard to remember. The aviary with the birds near the restaurant grabbed my attention as a youngster. I always thought it was pretty cool to get the fruit plate with sherbet since usually as a kid you had to finish your meal before you had desert. It's a shame to hear how it all came to a close. It brought so many children and adults happiness during tiresome road trips. One time, when I was a teenager, my dad flew the family up and landed at the Nut Tree Airport from Newport Beach just to go to the Nut Tree for the day! So,for our family, it transcended road side attraction to wonderful destination spot!

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By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:06:25 +0000

Oh! And the Pumpkin Patch and the glass bird cages in the big dinning hall! There were so many out of this world amazing things there!

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:04:12 +0000

This was my family. My great-grandparents started the fruit stand in 1921, that turned into the Nut Tree. The name the Nut Tree because of a young ancestor who was coming over to Vacaville via covered wagons to meet her family the Allison’s. Their wagons were attacked by Native Indians and while she recovering in Vacaville she planted/buried a little walnut doll that her mother had made for her back home. That nut grew into a tree and that tree was the shade for the original fruit stand. And our family still has tables made from that family walnut tree. 🙂 Just thought I’d share. Finding this tonight was so sweet and filled with so many good memories. My cousins and I spent so much time here growing up. And our parents grew up and lived on the property most of their lives. It was family fighting that brought this wonderful place to a close, and sadly, the part of our family who was doing the fighting was not even working at, living at, or running the Nut Tree at all. Very sad for all of us who loved it so so very much.