Vaudeville to Video Stores – A look at Entertainment in the Borough of Sebastopol

Sebastopol Historical Society is hosting an entertainment-themed exhibition, which celebrates the way the Borough entertained itself prior to amalgamation in 1994. From vaudeville in the hotels of the 1860s to the introduction of video stores in the 80s/90s. Learn about Donald Gunn, an extraordinary man who produced many plays and similar entertainment during the interwar period. See evidence of an escaped circus elephant and the many forms of entertainment held at the Sebastopol Town Hall.

Objects from our museum, documents, photographs and costumes. Demonstrations of early Gramophone technology. Re-live school yard entertainment with hands on old fashioned games for young or old.