Kingsburg's Dala Horse

Kingsburg's Dala Horse Please feel free to post pictures of you and your friends with the Dala Horse. The year was 1988. Kingsburg was designated a “Jubilee City”.

President Reagan declared that year to be New Sweden ’88 – to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the Swedish Colony in America (Delaware). In 1988 Kingsburg experienced a yearlong celebration. The City of Kingsburg asked Wayne Olson to make a wooden Dala Horse to be the centerpiece of our town. Other attractions were: exhibits, Royal Swedish Band, Swedish Dance groups, a visit

from our sister city Sunne, lunch with Princess Christina, the Three Crowns Fountain, flags, province coat of arms, maypoles and murals. The Dala Horse dates back a couple hundred years in Sweden in the province of Dalarna, in a little village called Nusnas. Farmers and soldiers would sit and carve these horses out of scraps of wood during the winter and they were toys for their children. Many of them had jobs as traveling salesmen and they would stay in people’s homes and leave a horse as payment. Other people saw them and wanted them too and so they standardized the horse and used it for barter. The Dala Horse became famous in 1939 at the World’s Fair. In front of the Sweden pavilion there was a six foot wooden Dala Horse. From that point on it became known as a national symbol of Sweden. The Dala Horse is the logo of our town, Kingsburg. (Our Coffee Pot Water Tower is the landmark of our town).

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Kingsburg’s Julgransfest 🎄
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Kingsburg’s Julgransfest 🎄

Vålkommen tillbaka dalahäst! ❤️🇸🇪
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Vålkommen tillbaka dalahäst! ❤️🇸🇪

This is Stefan Sorenson, a professional Dala horse painter from Dalarna, Sweden. In 1993 he visited Kingsburg and painte...
07/22/2020

This is Stefan Sorenson, a professional Dala horse painter from Dalarna, Sweden. In 1993 he visited Kingsburg and painted about 130 6” Dala horses in the Cultural Village at the Swedish Festival in Kingsburg in front of Svensk Butik.

In 1994 he came back to Kingsburg during the Swedish Festival and painted more 6” Dala horses and also painted the 5-foot Dala horse.

Kingsburg’s Dala Horse has been repainted several times throughout the years. We always enjoy seeing locals and tourists alike try to (and most times succeed) hop up on the horse for photo ops.

Right now the horse is being repainted by Chad Carter and will be back in place shortly.

The making of the five foot Dala Horse was featured in the Kingsburg Recorder in 1988. Pictured are Wayne Olson and his ...
07/22/2020

The making of the five foot Dala Horse was featured in the Kingsburg Recorder in 1988. Pictured are Wayne Olson and his son Olof Olson.

From The Kingsburg Recorder Wednesday, April 13, 1988:
Four-year-old Olof Olson puts the first of five coats of paint on the five-foot Dala horse his father, Wayne, is making for the City of Kingsburg. The horse, which is costing the city several hundred dollars for construction, will be completed by the kickoff of the New Sweden ‘88 activities. Olof gives his father a hand in moving the 400-pound wooden horse. When completed, the horse will be used as a city monument for tourist picture-taking.

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I’m excited that my friends are coming to visit me from Svensk Butik ~ Swedish Gifts, which happens to be right across the street.

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1400 Block Of Draper Street
Kingsburg, CA
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