Staff and volunteers at the Rancho take pride in featuring unusual and interesting offerings in the Gift Shop. Visitors will find truly unique gifts from decorative tiles and Bauer Pottery to jewelry and apparel. The Gift Shop carries children's books plus beautiful books on local history, gardening, and cooking. The items shown below can be purchased at Rancho Los Alamitos Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Each purchase benefits educational programs at the Rancho.

Rancho Los Alamitos: Ever Changing, Always the Same

by Claudia Jurmain, David Lavender, and Larry L. Meyer with Foreword by Kevin Starr

In elegant detail, Rancho Los Alamitos explores this evolving land and its inhabitants. Through letters, diaries, ledgers, and historic photos, the story of Southern California is powerfully illustrated.

Rancho Los Alamitos has always been a place of gathering, a home of new beginnings for those with dreams tied to a generous land. Rooted in its resilient diversity, the place has retained the distinctive flavor and grace of an older California while living in the times. This is Rancho Los Alamitos – ever changing, always the same.

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Favorite Foods Favorite Places

A collection of recipes from the Volunteers at Rancho Los Alamitos

More than 250 favorite recipes lovingly compiled from the kitchens of the more than 200 volunteers who tend and care for the Rancho. The collection includes some of Fred H. Bixby's BBQ recipes plus photos and quotes from volunteers about their favorite places at the Rancho.

Favorite Foods Favorite Places
A collection of recipes from the
Volunteers at Rancho Los Alamitos
Historic Ranch and Gardens
...... $25.00 plus tax

O, My Ancestor: Recognition and Renewal for the
Gabrielino-Tongva People of the Los Angeles Area
by Claudia Jurmain and William McCawley

O My Ancestor is a most admirable and necessary undertaking, with rich and moving testimony and a fullness of detail that makes it compelling.

-- James D. Houston, author of Bird of Another Heaven

O, My Ancestor: Recognition and Renewal for the
Gabrielino-Tongva People of the Los Angeles Area
...... $21.95 plus tax

Illustration at left:
“The Ascension of Chinigchinich into the Heaven of Stars”
by Jean Goodwin.
The woodcut illustration is from the 1933 edition of Chinigchinch by Father Gerónimo Boscana published by the Fine Arts Press in Santa Ana.

Bauer Pottery

The Bauer Pottery Company has reissued many of the pieces first brought to us by the J.A. Bauer Pottery Company of Los Angeles. The J.A. Bauer Pottery Company was the “originator of California Colored Pottery” and today their design pieces are sought-after collectibles. Now Bauer has fired up the kilns again and is recreating its classic 1930s and ‘40s Southwest-inspired designs. Many of the original pieces are part of the Rancho Los Alamitos collections.

We do not ship pottery. Please stop by the Gift Shop during public visiting hours to see our collection. We suggest that you call in advance and let us know the items you are interested in so that we can ensure the items are in stock for you.