Benicia Main Street is celebrating the city’s namesake with a unique shopping promotion from September 6 – September 30, 2023.
Visitors to Benicia’s shops on First Street can enter a drawing to win $100 in Downtown Dollars, redeemable at dozens of downtown businesses, by locating a framed photograph of Doña Benicia inside participating stores.
According to the Benicia Historical Museum, “Doña Benicia came from a long line of strong women. Her mother was one of the first woman winemakers in Sonoma County. At the age of 17, she traveled for four weeks by mule while pregnant to reach her husband, General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and was the mother of 16 children of which ten survived to adulthood. After the founding of Benicia, named after her, she began to go by that name instead of Francisca and was thereafter known as Doña Benicia.”
Shoppers simply find a framed photo of Doña Benicia and e-mail the store name and the secret code word printed on the back of the frame to Benicia Main Street at info@beniciamainstreet.org to enter the drawing. Earn one entry for each store – or score a double entry by purchasing an item at the store and showing the receipt to Benicia Main Street, located at 90 First St.
Participating merchants:
- Adobe Second Chance Thrift Shop
- Angel Heart 4 You
- Antiques on 1st
- Aquarian Plants/The Courtyard Salon
- Artcentric
- Benicia Main Street
- Benicia Plein Air
- Benicia State Capitol
- Bookshop Benicia
- Cartel Crystals
- Daughter of Luna Floral Design
- Elisa’s Cottage
- Framed on First
- Gallery 621
- Happy Life Pottery
- HQ Gallery
- Le Sparkly Chateau
- Mozart, Earhart & Me
- NY2CA Gallery
- Pink Arrows Boutique
- Pups N Purrz
- Roberto’s Fine Jewelry
- Rosie Mae Uniques
- Sepay Groves Olive Oil
- Sips
- Sparkly Ragz
- The Filling Station Goods & Gifts
- The Little Art Shop
- Two Days Jewelry
- Willow Jewelry/ Steve Deutsch Woodwinds
- Yummi Mart
- Zeppelin Comics