Witness Tree Loses a Limb
By Holazola
I just drove by and noticed a huge limb broke off the witness tree in the courtyard of the old sizzler building.
Here is a link to some tree history by Tom Modugno: https://goletahistory.com/the-witness-tree/
According to Tom, it is a "centuries old sycamore tree that has witnessed the change of Goleta from bean fields and dairy farms to concrete and traffic jams."
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Mar 27, 2020 02:15 PMOh, sad. Great to read Tom's history.
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Mar 27, 2020 02:22 PMIt’s suffered enough. Put it out of its misery.
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Mar 27, 2020 02:29 PMMy wife's late grandfather grew up in then-rural Goleta. Every day on their walk to/from school, the neighborhood boys would stop to take a leak on that tree.
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Mar 28, 2020 01:27 PMThat's one amazing tree.
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Mar 29, 2020 11:30 PMThank you for the history link. It was fascinating. I really enjoyed reading. What a beautiful tree.
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Mar 30, 2020 09:12 AMI always get a kick out of the nurseries and landscape designers who call California sycamores “Witness Trees”