Professional, attentive staff. No late fees! A new library card was applied for and recieved in a…read moresingle meeting. Wonderful

This library has good resources, but it's not the greatest place to read or even study at. Noise is…read morenot really regulated as it becomes loud enough to be distracting. It would be nice if noise was at minimum out of respect for other patrons as they study or need a peaceful place to go to.

Not as big compared to other libraries but it offers a great variety of books to choose from. The…read morestaff is extremely helpful and will offer any books that another location may have in stock to be shipped out for pick up. Personally, having a good book on hand always comes handy.

Shorter hours but it's not an issue. Librarians are super helpful. Wish the building was bigger…read more Need more magazines and more space. This community it growing fast. Bus Stop is with in walking distance.(the condition of the bus stop can use a big upgrade). Small businesses are within this parking lot. Community Health Clinic here,too.

Show some love to the local libraries. Our kids need to see some books here and at home to be…read morereaders throughout their lives. Reading on the phone and tablets is ok but nothing will replace the codex. Support Guad's library.

My mistake! I completely forgot about the other smallest library in the state of CA and possibly…read morethe entire country, and its right here in our own neighborhood. So, take a look at the photo I took and I'm sure you will agree.

The Orcutt Lions Clubhouse is available for rental for your events. The hall can easily…read moreaccommodate 100 people. Rental fees include the use of chairs, tables, kitchen and BBQ pits.

Very cool, classical bronze Seth Thomas street clock was established by Katayama Jewelers from the…read more1920's when there was a thriving Japanese American community based mostly on agriculture. In fact, Guadalupe had a Japantown including other businesses like grocery stores, specialty shops, etc. Katayama Jewelers lasted until 2007 with the 4 year hiatus when Japanese Americans were unconstitutionally and forcibly incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. Sorry to say Katayama Jewelers, one of the last vestiges of Guadalupe Nihon Machi/Japantown, is gone. However, Masatani Market on Guadalupe Street & a Japanese Buddhist Temple, which still celebrates the Obon Festival in late July, are still extant & marked on Google Maps today. By 2016 the clock had shown its age, but a fund raising campaign to refurbish it was successful. The clock is now the centerpiece for Downtown Guadalupe especially at night when the clock tower glows a neon red, green, yellow welcome. I was driving south on California Hwy Route 1, when this jewel of a street clock beckoned me to stop in the darkness of fading dusk. Thank you Robert Stoll, of Lompoc for caring of the clock from 2009-2016 and helping with its complete make over and restoration. Following link tells the story of its history & restoration. "Clockmaker wants to preserve Guadalupe icon | Local News | santamariatimes.com" https://santamariatimes.com/news/local/clockmaker-wants-to-preserve-guadalupe-icon/article_d7fd1b24-72c9-5300-94f8-641a5e5ba670.amp.html

We were on our way to San Francisco and stopped at Santa Maria. We were really bored and decided to…read morelook around for attractions. This clock appeared and it was the best thing we had ever seen! The clock was so pretty and glorious. I couldn't imagine a better looking sidewalk clock. Totally worth the 7 hour drive. Truly the 8th wonder of the world. 10/10 Would totally recommend.

This wonderful vestige of local history serves to mark on the "right of ways…read more" of the old functional, but not scenic, Pacific Coast Railway. In other words, that old now defunct railroad was the very first railroad in the Central Valley & predates the wider rail that the Coast Starlight Express/ Amtrak uses from WA to OR, to CA, & then the SF Bay area then all the way down the coast to SB then LA, much of which either hugs the coast or parallels various sections of roads such as 101, El Camino Real, Hwy #1, etc. Since SLO & Santa Barbara Counties were essentially landlocked by geography back then, the first rails were actually started at Hanford Pier in Avila Beach. People would take a steamship from SF to Avila. The first Tram was built by Ah Louis, a SLO-town Chinese gentlemen of great distinction. The Tram was power by horses & then people transferred to a coach to get to SLO. Ah Louis, who's building still stands in downtown SLO, also later organized Chinese laborers to later build the rail system that first went from Avila to SLO. The later amazing tunnels & more advance railroad by yet another company [the Southern Pacific Railroad which today handles more familiar Amtrack trains] with wider gauge/rails was extended down from Santa Margarita down the Cuesta Grade and later competed with PCR, was also built by Ah Louis & Chinese laborers. Indeed there is a large bronze stylized statue of two Chinese railroad workers, laboring on the railroad at today's Amtrak station, in SLO. The Ah Louis store still stands as a historic building with a plaque, but it is used for purposes other than history. In fact, much of SLO's downtown so-called Chinatown has been progressive destroyed over many decades, & little remains beyond the Ah Louis building, an obscure mural on the side of a parking lot, and a absurd Chop Suey Neon sign [at a hotel that does not serve Chop Suey], which obviously did not exist in Ah Louis's time. All excavated artifacts are either stored somewhere else or have been forgotten. I am not aware of any display of Chinese historic artifacts from that era in SLO. Anyway, the earlier narrow gauge rail system was gradually extended first down to Arroyo Grande, to Nipomo [which formed the nucleus of this town], to Santa Maria, Los Alamos, & finally to Los Olivos. Passengers at the end of the line back then would stay overnight at the Mattie Tavern [still in use] & Hotel in Los Olivos & then take a stagecoach to Santa Barbara the next day. Branches of this narrow gauge [or 3 foot wide narrow rail] would also extend to Guadalupe & Betteravia, westward on the Coast & toward Sisquoc East. Much later the Sugar Factory & Co. town of Betteravia became a rare ghost town in 1966. After much of the oil was exhausted in other areas, they also declined. The West branch was used for all kinds of things ranging from Sugar Beets/Sugar to Oil. Sisquoc had lots of oil fields which were discovered all over, but like so many other places that discovered Gold, Black Gold, or precious materials, it was often boom and then bust. While there is one building said to have been at one time a depot for the PCR train system a few block away from this landmark, I cannot confirm it. There appears to be dozens of past & present rail systems in CA alone. There is even a Santa Maria Valley rail system & an organization that keep that information alive. https://friends-smvrr.org/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_Valley_Railroad Sadly, not much remains of the Pacific Coast Railway, except for maybe one lone locomotive that may be in Oregon, the remains of a station, and right of ways, that have been repurposed as gas line right of ways. Here & there, old rails may be buried under roads & can be still detected by metal detectors. Sometimes erosion of new roads, reveal underlying rails, but the vast majority of metal artifacts was used as scrap long ago. Here and there such groups as the SMVRR do go on outings to see what traces that they can find and get special permission to go onto private lands to explore. The SLO Railway Museum near the Amtrak station is helpful. Ref. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Railway https://www.thirdrail.com/ttrpcrr.htm [..."Oil was first struck in March of 1900 in the Husna Valley. Later again in Arroyo Grande at 500 feet, but these strikes were insufficient to be profitable until 1901 when the Western Oil Company brought in a well on the Careaga Ranch at 200 barrels a day. So great was the activity around Graciosa Station that a new town was laid out one mile to the North. The town was named "Orcutt" in honor of W. W. Orcutt the Chief Geologist for the Union Oil Company...."]. I am by no means knowledgable on these historical topics. Sadly, as time goes on, more is forgotten, destroyed, or even distorted. At least some take it upon themselves to preserve some history. To those individuals, I thank you!