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7 Days of Halloween & Beyond

Welcome to Davis Downtown’s

Visit downtown Davis now through the end of Fall for endless festivities! Bring your family and friends to visit your favorite downtown businesses to enjoy our 7 Days of Halloween from Oct 25–31st. Experience downtown like never before while also supporting small businesses during this pandemic year.

Although there will be NO TRICK-OR-TREAT TRAIL this year due to COVID-19, downtown Davis will be alive with activity. While restaurants prepare their Fall Festive menus with Oktoberfest-like items, spiced lattes, pumpkin flavored yogurts and brews too, retailers will embrace the season by putting up decorations and participating in seasonal activities including a scavenger hunt with prizes along the way.

Due to the wild popularity of the annual Trick-or-treat Trail that the DDBA (Davis Downtown Business Association) puts on each year, which includes families coming in from neighboring cities, we are asking all of our downtown member businesses to have a unified message that candy handouts will NOT be available on Halloween day itself, October 31st. As an organization we have to put considerable effort into announcing the cancellation of our annual Treat Trail due to public health concerns.

But with that said, there will still be plenty for families, individuals and visitors to do to entertain themselves during the 7 Days of Halloween:

1.) Visit E Street Plaza: Refreshed and redecorated E Street Plaza is the Tell-Tale Heart of the downtown with 10 picnic tables for public use and harvest/Halloween/Day of the Dead themed decorations as well as ambient lighting and music.

2.) Downtown Scavenger Hunt: Families, […]

2024-08-25T09:58:46-07:00October 18th, 2020|

Communal Art Project 2020

Welcome to the Davis Downtown Communal Art Project

A Project POWERED BY THE PEOPLE!


The results are in and winners have been announced – check it out through our live gallery! Spread the word by telling your family and friends about the Communal Art Project and continue to show your support of the artists by “Liking” pieces in the gallery. To view all the great submissions, click on the following link:

Davis Downtown Communal Art Project Facebook Page

We called for artists of all ages to participate in our community-wide art project focused on how we all have been coping with shelter-in-place and social distancing, and you responded! Artists of all levels and ages participated, and over a hundred AMAZING, TOUCHING, and FUN submissions were received.

As we begin to emerge from this unparalleled time, our community’s art serves as a way to understand and memorialize our experience, and collectively this is a testament to our resilience.

All submissions were uploaded to a digital gallery on our project’s Facebook page. This gives everyone an opportunity to view the artwork, as well as comment, like and share. The Facebook page went live on Monday, June 22nd. On Sunday, June 28th we took a snapshot all of the artwork and tallied the likes for each entry to determine category winners.

Submission Categories:

KIDS (sub-categorized by age)
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2024-08-26T11:33:14-07:00May 25th, 2020|

The Davis Arch (1916)

The Davis Arch, one of the most striking structures in early downtown Davis, no longer exists. It spanned 2nd Street at G, between buildings # 6 and # 7, welcoming visitors from the depot (# 8) and proclaiming “Davis” to be “Gateway to Yolo County” and “Home of the University Farm.” It was a symbol of civic pride and unity, having been built in 1916 following a suggestion from a State Farm student, but adopted as a project by The Woman’s Improvement Club in the absence of a local government to fund such an undertaking. Reportedly because the Arch proved hazardous to increasing automobile traffic, it was torn down after a relatively short life in 1924. (Larkey, Page 124, 126 and Lofland, Page 50, 74)

2025-11-02T15:21:45-08:00July 3rd, 2013|

The Davis Enterprise, Circulation (Date Unknown)

303 B Street

Another structure without Historical Resource designation is the building which currently serves as the Davis Enterprise Circulation Department. In addition to administering justice and publishing a newspaper, William Scott (See A above) operated several businesses from this location. These included an insurance agency, a real estate office, and a job printer. The building still stands today, although a board façade makes it barely recognizable. Photos of this early Davis Enterprise building, and of Scott, may be found in books on Davis history, including an interior shot (Larkey, Pg 109) and one with Scott and Floyd Gattrell, the first Davis Chief of Police (Larkey, Pg 78 and Lofland, Pg 79).

2025-11-02T15:21:46-08:00July 3rd, 2013|
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