10 things in stockton, an insiders guide

FLOMM 4.23 is hap­pen­ing in STOCK­TON, Cal­i­for­nia next weekend. 

And every town has a per­son­al­i­ty (just go dig­ging back thru our In­sta­gram posts to see a few places we’ve vis­it­ed) – and here’s some STOCK­TON stuff to check out that’s not part of The Pre­fab­ri­ca­tion of America … 

In me­an­der­ing, num­bered order:

     
J.C. Leyen­deck­er on Pin­ter­est

1.   J.C. Leyen­deck­er Gallery at The Hag­gin    [map]
The Hag­gin is home to the largest col­lec­tion ANY­WHERE of leg­endary ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry com­mer­cial artist J.C. Leyen­deck­er — whose work was cut up and sold at a garage sale af­ter his death.

Artists who count Leyendecker’s work as in­spi­ra­tion in­clude Lu­cas­film reg­u­lar Drew Struzan and famed psy­che­del­ic artist Rick Grif­fin. If you are an il­lus­tra­tor, com­ic book fan, or artist, this col­lec­tion of ‘The oth­er Nor­man Rock­well’ is worth check­ing out.

See his orig­i­nal brush­strokes (those are brush­strokes, not mark­er pen) – and while there, pe­ruse lo­cal art, AND a rather large col­lec­tion of Cater­pil­lar trac­tors and ephemera. The Hag­gin clos­es at 5 p.m., just as 4.23 begins.
 
 

2.   Chuck’s Ham­burg­ers     [map]
Through­out the area, old ‘counter joints’ have been re­placed with chains and odd trib­utes to Elvis. 

Chuck’s is a throw­back – a REAL din­er with real food. The burg­ers are well sea­soned and the kitchen fries daz­zle (re­mem­ber to or­der the fixin’s too). Big serv­ings, and they added piz­za when they moved to the Bowl­ing Alley. 

Also for food­ies are Bob’s at the Ma­ri­na (‘al­most world fa­mous!’), Gar­lic Broth­ers (in the delta!), and Mar­ket Tav­ern (farm to fork – and there are a LOT of farms out here! Next month, Alpine Blue will be open for picking).
 
 

3.   Asian Farm­ers Mar­ket     [map]
Speak­ing of farms, eat some ear­ly morn­ing noo­dles un­der the free­way! Rep­re­sent­ed: Cam­bo­di­an, Ko­re­an, Viet­namese, Laot­ian, Chi­nese, and MOR.
 
 

4.   Taco Trucks     [map]
Can’t talk about STOCK­TON life with­out men­tion­ing The Taco Trucks.

Real Mex­i­can Street Food. All over STOCK­TON. Be­cause STOCK­TON was once PART of Mex­i­co (well, all of Cal­i­for­nia was). Be ad­ven­tur­ous, try the Lin­gua (my fa­vorite), ex­pe­ri­ence a lit­tle heat.
 
 

     
@NevMade at STOCK­MAR­KET

5.   Stock­mar­ket     [map]
STOCK­MAR­KET is STOCKTON’s über­cool mak­ers faire – filled with work from some of the best ar­ti­sans in the area. Cu­rat­ed lo­cal art, food, vin­tage wares, live bands – lots of STOCK to se­lect from.

AND
we have a FLOM­MIST on the ground at STOCK­MAR­KET: Say ‘hi’ to Mimi Win­ters of Nev­Made – she’ll have (pic­tured) hand­made mod­ernist house­hold prod­ucts … de­signed with love.

AND
THIS WEEK­END her work can also be found SAT­UR­DAY AF­TER­NOON at a Pop-Up shop housed in West Elm in Ro­seville, California.
 
 

Sasha Pivo­varo­va by Chen Man for VOGUE Chi­na Feb­ru­ary 2016

6.   Dillard’s     [map]
You’ve seen Dil­lard’s in VOGUE. STOCK­TON just hap­pens to have the ONLY lo­ca­tion in North­ern California. 

Try on some­thing nü. Shop.
 
 

7.   An­nu­al Green Fash­ion Show     [map]
A few days be­fore 4.23 – on 4.21 – is a sus­tain­able fash­ion show. 

Some of the 4.23 par­tic­i­pants are their par­tic­i­pants too – and the fash­ion is made from nat­ur­al ma­te­ri­als such as plant mat­ter, up­cy­cled thrift store items, garbage, or­gan­ic or lo­cal tex­tiles and MOR.
 
 

8.   Earth Day Fes­ti­val     [map]
The day af­ter 4.23 is the Stock­ton Earth Day Fes­ti­val. Vic­to­ry Park, Sun­day 24 April 2016, 11–4.
 
 

BLT with pilsner

9.   The Abbey, A Trap­pist Pub     [map]
A pub on the Mir­a­cle Mile. Cool peo­ple and good food, whether or not you’re hav­ing beer.
 
 

Brubeck

10.   Take 5 Jazz Club     [map]
Jazz club named for Dave Brubeck’s Take Five – ex­pect good ser­vice, good tapas, beer, wine and smooth, live jazz. Open late.
 
 

SO
NEXT WEEK, get some morn­ing NOO­DLES, DIN­ER foo, or GAR­LIC; then hit STOCK­MAR­KET, en­joy the wares, eat MOR foo – then check out shop­ping, tacos and more tacos – drop by the Hag­gin be­fore clos­ing, then spin by 4.23 af­ter 5.

Our goal with 4.23 is to NOT repli­cate what STOCK­MAR­KET and oth­ers have to of­fer, but to add some­thing dif­fer­ent to the over­all ex­pe­ri­ence that is STOCK­TON, Cal­i­for­nia. See you next Saturday!
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

List com­piled with the help of DAN­GER Hol­ly, Rose Ross, Gary Ross, Kristi­na Davis, and Kaila Mun­son. Im­age up top: The icon­ic Lin­coln Cen­ter ro­tat­ing sign, built 1951.

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