![]() Schulz, who was known by his nickname “Sparky,” had his studio at the arena and would eat breakfast and lunch at the rink’s cafe, the Warm Puppy, most days. The rink, Schulz’s tongue-in-cheek temple to ice hockey, was built in a redwood grove at the far end of town - near the then-new, now delightfully dated Coddingtown Mall - and modeled off of a Swiss chalet. ![]() Instead, in 1969, he funded the construction of the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, aka “Snoopy's Home Ice,” aka the “Coolest Place in Santa Rosa.”Īn illustrated timeline of Charles Schulz's life. Unlike a lot of artists, he didn’t hole up in a studio somewhere, a creative hermit. ![]() Though he was born and largely raised in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Schulz settled in Sonoma County in the 1960s and became a fixture of Santa Rosa’s civic life. ![]()
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