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As we observe Earth Day, it seems like an ideal time to tell the story of how a single pepper tree became the moving force behind the thriving Casa Guadalajara restaurant and the re-located Bazaar del Mundo in Old Town.
Through an unusual confluence of coincidences, that’s exactly what happened in 1995 like a page out of the popular children’s book, “The Giving Tree.”
Bazaar del Mundo founder
Diane Powers was shocked one day to see tree trimmers beginning to cut down a large pepper tree in an unpaved parking lot in Old Town. She regularly drove by the tree en route to her office in the original Bazaar del Mundo complex in nearby Old Town State Historic Park.
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