This is the mission olive press near the entrance. In the background you can see the oven where those in the mission baked their bread.
The Olive Press, View 1 (5/10)
Barbara Hart Radisavljevic
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Ah, now this is something we don’t have at our mission. I see an old adobe oven in the back round and can smell the bread and olives. Oh YUMMY.
I’m not sure where your mission is. I can’t remember if the others I visited had an olive press on display or not. I’ll bet most missions used to have them, even if they may be gone now, unless their climate was different enough that olive trees did not grow at the mission. I don’t remember if I included it in the photos here, but there is also an olive tree at the mission. And I’ll bet it’s bearing now, as are most of the olive trees around here.
It’s on Mission Ave. Just a few miles inland of Coast Highway in Oceanside, right before Camp Pendelton.
This discussion has sent me scurrying to my map of the mission route on the back of one of my books. So handy at times to live with my retired merchandise as I figure out what to do with it.
I was looking for a map online. Nice to see you have a book with it on there. I really love this history, so fascinating.